Darkwater Glenn

Darkwater Glenn looks like a quiet town. Pine-lined streets. A lake that reflects the sky without distortion. A place that doesn't like attention.

Inside one small apartment above a secondhand bookstore, a child learns something else entirely.

She learns how to read a room before she learns to trust one.

She learns that silence can mean safety. Or waiting.

She learns that adults prefer calm to conflict, and systems prefer stability to truth.

Years later, she is no longer in that house. The doors...