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CHAPTER ONE

THE WEIGHT YOU DON’T PUT DOWN

I don't talk about Billy much. People tend to get uncomfortable when you mention a dead brother, especially one who keeps interrupting you.

He's been gone six years. I still catch myself thinking I ought to call him, which is ridiculous for two reasons. One, he's dead. Two, I can just tell him to shut up...

CHAPTER ONE

The Wrong Reflection

At 2:07 every morning, Chad Fitzgerald burns two pieces of toast.

I know because I've watched him do it three nights in a row.

Tonight I'm hanging outside his kitchen window, forty floors above the drowned part of Anchor City, wondering whether this counts as stalking or just extremely poor judgment.

Probably both.

The...

THE HAPPINESS CLINIC

An Anchor City Files Story

Sean Wilson

THE WOMAN WHO PAID TO STOP LOVING HER DAUGHTER

PART ONE: THE FAMILY PLAN

Most people who come looking for me start with their name. Sometimes they start with a lie. I usually find out which by the time Gary brings the coffee.

This woman doesn’t bother with either.

“I don’t love my daughter...

When I finished The Echo Thief, I thought I might finally get some sleep.

I'd been carrying that story around for twenty years. Twenty years of writing, rewriting, changing things, putting it away, then dragging it back out because some part of it still wasn't right.

Paula was there for a lot of it.

She listened to me talk about characters like...