Lifts and Lies
This is a work of fiction. All the names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents in this book are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coinciden…
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I just want to extend a huge thank-you to all of you for reading, liking, sharing, and offering support for this project. Though I’ve been in journalis…
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Willa walked past the 80-year-old swim-capped women in waist-deep water, flailing their arms in a vague approximation of the letters Y, M, C, and A, an…
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Willa’s stay in the psychiatric facility and its affiliated residences and programs was longer than her last two, with 30 days of inpatient care, 30 da…
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Let’s pretend you are a tiny bronze cockroach, capable of scurrying past a security guard undetected and into a sleek elevator, then agile enough to sq…
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Willa was naked inside a cold bathroom, a stranger’s hands on her backside, pulling apart her cheeks and looking between them. The stranger next inspec…
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The FitFams offices’ eerie quiet was abruptly interrupted by the squeaking of Shelly’s Golden Goose Hi Star Bicolor Platform Script Sneakers on the shi…
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A body, covered in a sheet, pushed on a gurney by paramedics who were red-faced and exhausted from the effort of trying to breathe, pump, and shock lif…
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