Late Tuesday Night, the Numbers Flickered on the Screen and My Hands Went Cold Over the Ticket”
I didn’t notice the first time it happened. A shadow lingering outside my window, a car idling too long at the corner, the faint ping of a location alert I hadn’t set. At first, I chalked it up to coincidence—an extra tree branch moving in the wind, a neighbor’s headlights too bright—but when the patterns …