A Pulitzer winner hides in a locked Highland lodge to avoid finishing a book that's been dying for twenty-two years. Something is waiting there that already knows how it ends.

Four months after Diane's death, Ezra goes to Ruby Beach with a bottle, a bag, and a text message he's never had the courage to delete.

Content note: this story deals with grief and suicidal ideation.

Rome had never lost a legion. Then the forest ate one — and kept a survivor alive to explain why.