https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/categories/chapter-2--seek-and-ye-shall-find/Recent content in Chapter 2 — Seek and Ye Shall Find on Chicago ChroniclesHugoen-usThu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/posts/seek-and-ye-shall-find/Wed, 27 Feb 1991 17:50:01 +0000https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/posts/seek-and-ye-shall-find/<p><em>Hampden Avenue / Cherry Hills Village</em></p> <p><em>Denver, Colorado</em></p> <hr> <p>Flash woke hungry and cold. Five nights since the last feed and the body remembered before the mind did. A thinness in the limbs, a looseness behind the eyes, a way the room&rsquo;s edges softened into something he had to work to see. The basement bedroom in Emerson&rsquo;s house smelled of carpet adhesive and old cedar and the particular absence of cooking that meant a house where nobody ate. He sat up. His hands shook. Not badly. Enough.</p>