a girl in the 4th grade, older brother and sister. the brother gets a girlfriend the little girl liked until they got too serious and it was causing the parents worry. the girlfriend is too controlling of the boy and his grades slipped, he almost lost wrestling which he needs to go to college. sh...
They had always been linked. Because of the horror that had been my childhood, I’d tried to love Daniel even more—with a love tainted by all the ways my father hadn’t loved me. Everything I’d done right over the years had been a stab at him. Look what I can do without you. Look what I can do bett...
That last week at school had been difficult for Danielle, I knew—anonymous notes had been passed to her in class, a used tampon placed in her PE locker. The Gay-Straight Alliance had taken up Danielle’s cause, actively campaigning against hate speech. Well-meaning students had conducted class vis...
The entire experience of being here was surreal, like Dorothy falling asleep in Kansas and waking in Oz. I’d been walking past the crumbling remains on Observatory Hill, heading into class in McCone Hall, when I’d gotten the call from Aunt Julia. And now, only fourteen hours later, I was in a ren...