Free short story!
Here's a free short story to make up for not posting anything at the beginning of the month. The story is called In Cold Isolation, and is a new adult gothic story about living in the age of Coronavirus. Enjoy! Janie propped her elbow on the dinner table and rested her chin in her hand. She hadn’t said a word for an hour. Nor had anyone spoken to her. They ordered her to come home. The least they could do was talk to her. Acknowledge me , she wanted to scream. See me . The words she wanted to bawl at her family slid back down her throat to rumble inside her chest. She sighed deeply to ease her indigestion. Her mother, Diana, sat at one end of the table, blunt-cut hair falling to her chin in golden strands. The woman's perfect smile shone with the gloss of passion city pink, and she gazed at her husband with unashamed adoration. Janie’s eyes moved to her father, Jonathan Taylor, the undisputed head of the family and seated thus at the other end of the table. Dressed in the l