Gabriel's Gardens Anthology

This story is set in the city of Gabriel's Gardens.
This city was built on the United States ground on a man-made peninsula near Long Beach, Washington. The main reason of the city's founding was to create a kingdom for the highest levels of the society, to build a safe haven for the richest and the most successful.
The city's construction lasted for several years and at the end of this effort, there was a beautiful city full of advanced technologies, luxurious mansions and spectacular skyscrapers, the grandiose homes of the richest, shopping malls resembling small cities, recreational areas and sunny beaches. Every famous company has its branch there and there's nothing that the city's inhabitants couldn’t reach.
Isolated at first, the city, after several years, opened also to common people who found their new home there, though the city didn't lose its feeling of luxury and elite society.
But it's common that every luxury has its second face. Gabriel's Gardens weren't an exception. During the day, the city is defined by its splendid theaters, elite universities and happy, successful people. But when the night falls above it, it shows its opposite face if you know where to look: intrigues, violence, drugs and perversity.
The successful businessman you're greeting may have blood on his hands.
You never know if the wise, honored university professor whose class you're attending, molested children.
Welcome to Gabriel's Gardens.
The legend about the Gardens' founding says that the city was cursed after its founders didn't allow one unnamed religious community to move into the city. These astronomically rich gods of capitalism didn't want their new world to be open to ideas of spirituality; that's why not even one church or other religious sanctuary was built on the city's territory. The rejected believers cursed the city as a God forsaken place; they say that the whole city is plagued by strange paranormal occurrences which cause its inhabitants to slowly lose their minds. Everyone is familiar with this fact, but nobody is willing to speak about it since the people in their surroundings may find them crazy. Not even a compromise made by the founders, naming the city after one of the Archangels, didn't resolve the situation.

There are many stories associated with Gabriel's Gardens and if you want to step further, you can live them with their protagonists who aren't always saints. Even though they don't always use the right ways to achieve their goals, they all deserve a chance to make a change.
In Gabriel's Gardens, there are no heroes or villains. Only people, their goals and their conscience.