“Why do we need a boat?” Alina toed the box Jack had come home with which was now lying on the living room floor. He sneered. “That’s my new bed.” Jack opened the box, pulled out a well-folded rubber raft and then he pulled the tab on the side of it. The raft inflated taki...
The voice on the other end lets me know which periods were missed by Lola Savullo. Which is pretty stupid really, since every kid at Maple Ridge High knows to expect the call and grab the phone before the unsuspecting parent catches a whiff of guilt from their school-skipping teenager. I erase th...
He couldn’t have seen what he thought he did. Carly’s was dead and lost to him forever, he told himself, but another, deeper part of him wasn’t so convinced. He’d seen her. More to the point, he’d seen two of her. One lay in the hospital bed; the other stood at the window, a sad smile playing on ...