A poignant heart–rending story, shot through with darkness and splinters of grace. Turtle spontaneously asks the ‘new girl’, Farsanna from Sri Lanka, to join the ‘mangy pack’ at the Blue Hole. It’s a sweltering summer in a tiny community in the Deep South—a place where racial tension is a thing o...
Jimbo grabbed my wrists and hauled the upper half of me over his shoulder, the other half still stuck between sill and sash. “Hey, how ‘bout being careful!” “Too hard?” “I might wanna bear children one day. Jeez, you’re killing me.” I got unstuck all at once, which sent Jimbo and me tumbling to t...