She was maybe seven years old, wearing a dress that had been washed too many times, standing at the entrance of one of the most expensive restaurants in the city. Her shoes were…

The coffee cup slipped from her fingers and landed on the table with a dull, hollow crack. She didn’t even look at it. Every muscle in her body had locked into place the…

The glass hit the tile and shattered into a thousand pieces. Nobody moved. Nobody breathed. The entire kitchen froze in that one suspended moment, as if time itself had decided to pause and…