Emily Taylor

By that evening, Emily was barely holding it together. Two back-to-back shifts in the universitys campus

No one in the rooftop restaurant knew the boys name when he stepped from the shadows into the light.

She taught him a lesson hed never forget. It was as if the city was made from melted toffee and velvet

Mum had finally retired. Been a couple of years now. Im worn out, shed say. Healths shot. The job was

It was absolute mayhem at the rodeodust swirling everywhere, the crowd going wild, and the sun beating

Chandeliers glimmered overhead like captured constellations, their light dancing across the marble floors

How could you let yourself fall so far? Arent you ashamed, love? Youve got arms and legs, why arent you working?

Life is a boomerang. What we cast out into the world finds its own strange way back to us, sometimes

Nobody had asked him to come, you know. That was the first thing everyone clocked. The secondwell, he

The ballroom shimmered with a golden glow. Crystal chandeliers twinkled above the gleaming oak floor