The city below roared like an ocean — muffled, indistinct, somewhere far away. But here, on the bridge, there reigned an icy silence broken only by the splash of water against the concrete supports of the dam.

The city below roared like the ocean — muffled, indistinct, far away somewhere. But here, on the bridge, there was an icy silence broken only by the splash of water against the concrete pillars of the dam. Anna gripped the cold railing tightly and looked down. The dark, almost black water called to her, as […]

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She abandoned me at birth, and thirty years later fate brought us together again — now I am her attending doctor, the one who decided whether she would live or die.

I was born in the middle of winter — at the very end of February, when the cold still holds the earth, and hope for spring seems elusive. In a small town where summer seemed never to come. There, snow would settle as a dense blanket already in December and linger until April. The entrances […]

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