Contemporaneous: Chapter 20
20. I wake in the morning, grab my phone from my bedside drawer to check the time, and instead find a message from Lana: I just want to say that as somebody who cares for you and loves you, it hurts me whenever you make me feel unwanted, like I’m a burden in your life. It feels like I always have to scrap for your time, and when I’m with you, you’re neither verbally or physically affectionate. We’re more like friends to you it seems. I don’t know why or how it became like this but it’s grown progressively worse over the last year. I regularly wonder where I place…
Just Another Week in Suburbia
Title: Just Another Week in Suburbia Publisher: ECG Press Publication Date: 5 December 2025 Category: Suburban Noir Paperback: (234x156mm, 366 pages) ISBN Print: 978-1-7636892-4-4 Ebook: 978-1-7636892-3-7 Just how well can you ever truly know somebody? Casper Gray is a self-effacing thirty-year-old living a comfortable life in the idyll of middle-class suburbia. He and his beautiful wife, Jane, have been married for seven years, and are trying to have a baby. They own a cute little dog, Wallace. Casper’s respected in his job as a high school English teacher. And he’s liked in the neighborhood – well, mostly. But one simple discovery threatens to unravel it all. In a week where…
