Welcome to Synchrony, Michigan—The Sink—where the air is poisoned, and anyone who breathes it long enough may wake up with a talent they never asked for.

Uthman Breen, private investigator, was here before the city went mad, and he isn’t leaving. His beat: runaways somebody wants found, who don’t need a gun to be dangerous. Witches who deal in...

Desire is a door that only opens in one direction.

They arrive starving. For skin, for attention, for proof they still exist inside someone else's wanting.

A man who treats women like fruit to be tasted. A wife who leaves her ring on the sink and drives toward a stranger. An actress whose beauty repels every man she meets. A self-styled errand of...

She was comfortable with silence. That was the talent that made her dangerous.

Chelsea crafts language the way others craft poisons — slowly, precisely, with full knowledge of where it will settle in the body. A freestyle poet with an ear tuned to frequencies most people can’t name, she has spent years learning how words reshape the architecture...