Things We Do in the Dark

by Jennifer Hillier

Paris’s husband might not have been her greatest love—that honor still belongs to someone she knew years ago, in a different life, when she was a very different person—but Jimmy Peralta was the love of this life, the one she built from the ashes of her old one.

Well, Detective Frosted Flakes can try as hard as she wants, but so far, nobody ever has.

As a woman once reminded her a long time ago, the common denominator in all the terrible things that have happened to you is you. Everywhere you go, there you are.

What a life to take, what a bond to break, I’ll be missing you —PUFF DADDY AND FAITH EVANS, FEATURING 112

Some people wear their hearts on their sleeve. Joey wore her trauma around her neck.

As the opening bars to “Free Bird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd waft out of the speakers, it’s like Jimmy is here again, dancing with her in the kitchen. If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me …

We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl —PINK FLOYD