Elysia huffed. Okay, she thought. Let's try this one more time. It was incredibly frustrating to have this gift for clairvoyance when she could apparently only use it to aid others. She could tell fortunes all too easily, she could conjure up a customer’s loved one’s disembodied voice to allow her customers closure, and on her best days, she could even make spirits physically appear. But after hours when the curtain had c...

He was the embodiment of chaos. An unpredictable cartoon character. He represented everything Jennifer Laurent should have abhorred – crude, goofy, lackadaisical, kind of lazy, spontaneous… agnostic. Even the first time they met, Jennifer didn’t really think much about Alex, but clearly she had some kind of effect on him. It was some event where their respective colleges sent teams to research something together. The coll...

"Hey, how's it going, Jessica?" he warmly yet casually greeted me as he saw me enter his office. "Please, find a seat. You're saving me from having to work on my bullshit thesis anyway." I giggled and sat down, sitting at the desk with him. "Thanks for always finding time for me," I told him. He shrugged. "Thanks for caring about your work so much, you make my job worth it," he told me with that smile of his. "So…?" I nee...