Tammy was vacuuming.The whole house looked . . . cleaner, yes, but also . . . lighter?In the fridge, she found leftover pizza and started to eat a piece cold, standing at the kitchen island.The cat was in a corner, cowering, like maybe it had never seen Tammy vacuum.Then it hopped up onto an end ...
Not a one. But she had noticed a female student who looked an awful lot like Babette’s bendy friend at school. Like a twin. So when she found herself walking with Babette into homeroom, which she had mostly been avoiding to avoid the issue of deciding where to sit, Jane said, “Hey, I want to than...
It was so hot Saturday, and so humid, that I thought I might just rather die than go through with any of this. The morning crawled toward lunchtime, and I didn’t really feel much like eating, so I faked it for Mom’s sake and did some stretches, which seemed ridiculous even to me since I’d never d...
Sunday was a quiet day around the house. No one had said anything specific about it, but it seemed like we were all doing the things we most loved to do around the house. I spent an hour on my scooter down on the tennis court, making big circles and doing tricks. My mother sat under the pear tree...
We parked in the visitors’ lot and went to get day passes in the admissions office after a quick fight about whether it was possible to “break in” to Mohonk, and whether we should try. Then we headed out toward the gardens. It was sort of hard to believe that Mohonk was so close to Oyster Point, ...