The next day Kal was in her office sorting through a stack of misfiled evaluation forms when her cell phone buzzed. She didn’t bother to check the screen. Without looking, she stopped it in the middle of its jittery dance across her cluttered desktop, swiped her thumb across the screen and placed the phone to […]
“You didn’t get coffee.” Kal stretched her legs above the arm of her couch, watching her toes flex and release in mid-air. Jason had called as he said he would. The sound of his voice on the other end of the line filled her with a staticky sort of excitement. It wound through her and settled […]
Kalina ‘Kal’ Draiden snapped. She didn’t mean to. She hadn’t planned on it. In fact, she’d come to her favorite coffee shop in the hopes of gaining some peace. But, the world had other plans for her. Blame it on stress. Blame it on the ridiculous overtime hours she’d been putting in as a QA […]