Today was a Saturday, and the faded schedule mounted on the door informed us the next train was arriving at one o’clock, only five minutes from now. We’d made it just in time. From here, it would take almost an hour and a half to get to Union Station. Too cold to wait outs...
“Star?” I shook my head. “Waves.” He sighed and jotted a note in his notebook, then left to tell Jillian she was wrong again. Wiping all thoughts of Tristan’s almost-kiss from my mind, I pulled the next card from the deck and stared hard at it, not ...
Everywhere. Fog outside, dark inside. But Tristan was here, somewhere. I could feel him beyond the miles and eons and eternity of fog. Waiting. Waiting for me. Not waiting for me to die. Waiting for me to live. He didn’t plea...
Unlike the Google Earth image on my phone, icy wind blew snow across the cracked asphalt parking lot. Inside the garbage can, the ashes of my Anne of Green Gables book were cold. After Melanie gave me Jillian and Logan’s location, instead of going t...
“Ready?” Holding my breath, I nodded. He rang the buzzer on the intercom, and a few moments later a low voice crackled through the speakers. “Yeah?” “We need a guard down here.” “What’s wrong?” &...
When I left in the morning, my parents were sitting on either side of her bed, Dad pressing an ice pack to her head and Mom quietly crying. When I got home Mom was on her hands and knees in the hallway, scrubbing Jillian’s blood from the carpet. The Winterball dance was st...