Billable Hours

"The man across the room stirs. His head lifts, just slightly - not enough to be seen, but enough to be felt."

For eleven months, Ezra Okafor-Reyes has woken from the same dream: a bar with no name, amber light, a jukebox playing something that lives in the chest rather than the ear - and a man across the room whose face he can never quite reach. A Black, queer senior associate at a prestigious law firm, Ezra has spent seventeen years building an immaculate professional self: brilliant, cont...