Category: STORY

Margaret Vale stood beside the dry fountain while her stepson held up a photograph of her face.

Margaret Vale found the photograph floating face down in the hotel fountain.

Margaret threw the brass light meter into the wedding fountain and shouted, “You stole my daughter’s photographs.”

Margaret held Nora’s brass lens cap over the fountain and smiled as if it were evidence.

Margaret dropped the silver film canister into the courthouse fountain and pointed at me.

The red lens cap floated in the fountain like a tiny lifeboat.

Vincent Morales arrived at the Marlowe before sunrise and found his daughter’s suitcase beside a red elevator inspection tag.

Vincent Hale arrived forty minutes early and found Mia’s mother sitting barefoot beside the locked elevator door.

Vincent Alvarez arrived at Lake Meridian Tower two hours early and found Mia’s red-painted key lying beneath the wedding invitations.