It looks great at first. The streetlights cast their yellow halos into the night, and the snow starts to fall […]

Her stylist ran a comb through the stiff, layered bob and said softly, “This cut makes you look older than

It always seems like the first frost comes on a Tuesday morning. You wake up to a small cloud of

I saw a young woman park her cart in front of the vegetables on a Tuesday night in a busy

Honestly, the first time I saw it, I thought my neighbor had made a new kind of wind chime. Three

You hear it before you see it. The sound that happens when your foot hits the living room rug and

The first cold night of the year came out of nowhere. One minute I was answering emails, and the next

I put a bunch of potatoes in a pot of water the other night and just stared at it. A

The waiting room was full, but it was quiet in that tense way where people act like they’re scrolling through

The first thing you hear is the sound of the crack in the ice. A dry, cracking sound that breaks

For about three days, the shower had been clean. Then the familiar white fog crept back over the glass, like

There is a material behind every smooth new road or shiny glass tower that has a big impact on the

Before the sun went down, the first snowflakes fell. They were lazy and harmless, spinning in the light of a

Before the weather report came out, the street felt wrong. It was one of those nights in late January when

The first sign that something was wrong was a whisper: the sound of wings where there should have been snow.

In the winter, the first thing that hits you in Finland is the quiet. The snow makes everything sound softer,

On a gray Tuesday morning, you look down at the floor of your kitchen and feel a little bit defeated.

You open your laptop, and your shoulders tense up before the screen even lights up. There is a half-finished cup