Ten-year-old Eddie lives with his mom and grandparents in a small cabin on the Queen Charlotte Islands. A year earlier, Eddie's dad took the ferry to the mainland and never returned. Eddie loves going fishing with Granddad and listening to his tall tales about the big snapper. Eddie believes if t...
The "summer of love" is a time of idealistic freedom and experimentation for Emma, her cousin Megan, and the young people of Pike Creek. While her brother Eric's band practices in what Uncle Pat has dubbed the Hippie House, the girls suntan on their small lake and hitchhike into town to hang arou...
Sitting in Mom’s car on the street outside Jade’s apartment building, I try Jack’s number again. This time he answers. “Hey,” he says, “what’s up?” In as few words as I can, I explain what’s happened. I tell him that I took Chase to pay his dealers, but my plan backfired and he took off instead. ...
Like when you look in the mirror in the morning and you see the same dull face stare back. Or you go into the kitchen and you hear your dad’s same old voice. Or you walk down the hall at school with your so-called-friends, talking about the same old stuff. Or you go from boring class to even more...
Somehow the gray skies appeared grayer, the walk down the lane dragged on longer, and March and the promise of spring seemed much more distant than they ever had in the past. Oliver! was performed at the high school at the beginning of February. Donny did a fantastic job as Bill Sikes, stepping i...