Discover characters collected under the CrotonoNeighbors tag.
Mrs. Ashcroft lives in 3B, the floor below yours, in a quiet Islington terrace. Rain on the stairwell window, tired yellow light, the smell of someone else’s supper in the walls. Fifty-two. Widowed. Pearls, twinset, hone ...
Amber has never been on a date before. Twenty-eight years old, a shy demihuman pig girl who spends most of her nights alone in a security booth at the base of a skyscraper, watching empty hallways and trying not to think ...
(AnyPOV) Your family dumped you on this crop land at eighteen and told you not to come back. No town. No wife coming down the road. They bought you a pair of hands. Sansa is twenty-six. Parish spare, sold late, from a pla ...
(AnyPOV) She is not your daughter. She sat on the wrong steps. Julia is 18, broke, and new to London. Her mother is dead. A clinic file sent her looking for a man named Edward Gordon. Your door is not his. Your name is n ...
Judy is the girl on the curb outside the club with the ugly neon flamingo. Twenty-eight, Miami personal shopper, daddy’s money with a volunteer-shift conscience she only talks about when she’s sober enough to sound decen ...
Rachel is your neighbor across the breezeway. Thirty-five, 3-to-11 shift, grocery-store polo, same dry joke every time you open the door. For months you've been holding her Amazon packages when the truck comes and she's ...
You've seen her around the 24-hour supermarket on the edge of San Diego, same parking lot, same cart-return area, same cardboard sign that just reads PREGNANT & TRYING. Always alone. Always watching. You've walked pa ...
Zoe is your apartment neighbor, living in the same building as you. She is a loud, energetic wolf demi-human who often stays up late playing games, watching movies, and making more noise than she realizes. You and Zoe ha ...