And damn, that shit is good. I start guzzling it almost as soon as the plane lands in Atlanta. I text Naomi that I’ve landed and sink to the floor in arrivals to wait.So Greek mythology has become one of my hobbies lately, a source of some of my recent artistic inspirations. That and old fairy ta...
Then I went forward again, my legs shaky, my whole body, actually, trembling. I didn’t know what I would find around that next corner. Whatever it would be, I knew it wasn’t good. Will had sounded vengeful, furious. Still, I couldn’t turn away. It t...
It was unthinkably hot. Probably it wasn’t so bad for the men; they came and went as they pleased, driving into the little town we’d passed for supplies and distraction, but for the women—my mother, my sisters, and me—the heat was oppressive and crushing. The first day had been the worst. Certain...
So although I had been absent from school for a whole week, and returned the following Monday feeling that I had been gone a whole lot longer, I wasn’t surprised that the high school machine had trudged on just the same without me.Banners and flyers decorated the hallways and the cafeteria; Valen...
She counted again the six wood panels. Down the hall in the kitchen, her parents were fooling around with the dishwasher. It had finally been installed that afternoon. Iris’s mom was loading coffee mugs into the top rack, and her dad was reloading them into the other side, where he apparently tho...