The trees swallowed the road an hour ago. Now there is only the crunch of gravel under tired giving way to the soft thud of dirt. The GPS had blinked out, first the signal, the entire screen, leaving Dawn in a sudden, profound silence broken only by the hum of her own car’s engine and the playlist she’d put on for the drive to the new apartment. The cheerful pop felt obscenely out of place here, where the pines stood so close together they wove a ceiling of near-perfect darkn
