She’s not on the debate team, but nearly all the users on the list from her room are debaters. I can’t help but feel we’re being set up, like we’re being led down this path by some unseen, unnamed person. Someone who doesn’t want us to know Theo’s really the dealer. ...
They never watch TV. But tonight they feel the need to tune into a sitcom. They’re on the couch cracking up. The indignity of parents. The annoying, irritating, vexatious indignity of parents staying up late when I need to slip out. I want to drop sleeping pills into their wineglasses or short ou...
It is hot beyond words here, the sweltering-city kind of heat. The streets radiate fire, and the sun throws it right back down again, like it’s casting bolts of heat, pelting endless blankets of scorching air. Cities are the worst places to be in hot weather. I miss my pool. I miss the shaded sec...