The Intern: First Look and Cover Reveal
Michele Campbell
"The opportunity was just too good to pass up."
"The opportunity was just too good to pass up."
"There’s a crowd at the bar when I get inside, but I hang back, alone, and watch."
"The humid air pulsed with music from a thousand open windows, the live bands in every bar fighting a sonic Ragnarök with the tunes blasting from the cars crawling the 18th Street drag, all of it smashing into a thunderhead of drums and bass you could hear from a half-mile away, beckoning the city’s drunks and partiers: head to Adams Morgan, where all your needs can be satisfied, and all your bad decisions will be washed away tomorrow morning along with the crushed beer cans and half-eaten jumbo slices."
'“They’re dead. Somebody shot ’em in their house.” Nate had just delivered the news as though telling her what he’d had for breakfast.'
"Completely unaware of the true nature of what I’d signed up for, I waited impatiently for their call."
"Every time an observation is made—by humans, dogs, elephants—the universe holds the possibility of other branches of itself, with all other possible outcomes of that observation.”
"I upload my latest trailer to TikTok advertising my new YouTube video Killer in the Family and sit back."
"Maple’s mother had insisted she wear riding clothes to the horse stable, even though they weren’t there to ride."
“How’s that possible? You’re sisters—surely you’ve learned how to share?”
"[T]he dead are free to choose their age when they return as ghosts."
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