Her once-red hair was flattened and thin. Soaked tendrils clung to her flaking scalp, dull and lifeless. Her eyes were sunken in. Cheek bones protruded where plumpness had been only a few days ago. “It’s Meg,” I whimpered. My warm tears met the cold mist now falling. Saul’s hand on my low back st...
Morgan said, waking me by feeding a quarter into the round beast we’d fought to stay on last night. Vibrating beds were the second worst beds in the world. The first were round beds. Did the creators of those monstrosities know that people weren’t round? That they were long and leggy and needed r...
He refused to elaborate when I tried to question him, but said to watch out for Porschia and that something was ‘off’ with her today. She wasn’t feeling well or something. And he asked me twice if I felt sick or strange. I didn’t – I felt fine, but worried for Porschia, obviously. Tage was sticki...
More chemo. Puking. Working at the shop and crocheting when I can. More puking. More chemo. June hanging out with me every chance she got. Me avoiding Jaxon like the plague. More chemo. Hannah had called him when she went into labor. He’d stayed with her while she was ther...
A tiny piece of torn out paper caught my eye. The edges on the left were shredded where the sheet had been torn from a spiral notebook. I unfolded it and read: Tina, You don’t know me, so let me tell you everything you need to know. I’m six foot one, weigh 180 pounds and o...
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I’d heard him outside talking with Tage; the deep timbre of their voices mingling together. The wood frame of the door splintered, echoing through my ears. He was a blur of speed as he raced down the steps, and like an angry bull, he backed Ford into the wall. Ford’s shoulder blades made a thump ...