1. Stefan holds a bench-run result while Adriana speaks to him beside the radio bench, with Rodrigo at a desk beyond the glass. Across the Same Floor Cíntia came back from the parking lot on Monday afternoon with the vehicle key clipped to her jeans. “Still muted,” she told Renato, smiling as she unhooked it. “Until I asked it not to be.”

    Across the Same Floor

    Stefan holds a bench-run result while Adriana speaks to him beside the radio bench, with Rodrigo at a desk beyond the glass.
  2. Klaus looks up from a contract at his desk while Bernardo stands beside him holding two espresso cups. What Success Cost On Monday Klaus read Clause 9 three times before moving the exhibition leaflet out from beneath the contract. A coffee stain marked one corner. He smoothed it with his thumb, remembering Thaís’s bracelets against his wrist, then put it safely in the notebook. The clause had not changed.

    What Success Cost

    Klaus looks up from a contract at his desk while Bernardo stands beside him holding two espresso cups.