vacation (1)

Vacation was supposed to be a break—from work, from New York, from the noise inside her own head.

*welcome to the show loyal patron*

A clean reset in a quiet town on the Oregon coast, where the waves hit the cliffs like a metronome and the locals talked about the weather like it still mattered.

Rachel had picked the spot at random. It had a fireplace, a view of the Pacific, and no cell signal. That was enough. She told people she needed time to work on her photography portfolio, which wasn’t a lie, but not the whole truth either.