"I charge each of you to bring me a gift. It needs not be large, expensive, nor grandiose. It needs only be unique. Bring me something that is the only one of its kind. This challenge will require thought. It will require imagination."
Nuance is not a word that exists anymore. It is my job to remember it. I am a word hoarder, tasked with preserving the words the world has forgotten.
It was that encroaching distance between them that prompted Adam to propose this adventure, an opportunity for father-son time together. The years were slipping away too quickly, and there was so much he wanted to teach Noah; so many things he...
My name is Coco Bryte, and I’m human.
She didn’t need to know I had met this traveler. She had kept a secret from me; it seemed only fair that I keep this secret from her.
Jowls appeared like an apparition, an amalgamation of the Michelin Man and a ninja, pedaling toward us in a skin-tight karate gi.
i won't let go
of everything
"What are the new neighbors like?" Mom asked. "I hope they fit in."
Brody wondered how or where the new neighbors were supposed to fit. Adults said the weirdest things sometimes.
Pa told us to keep the ache, to bury it, / to never let it go.
She wants to see it, the sky, haloed in horizon, sprawled out in a panorama. Overwhelmed by emotion, Gwyneth’s eyes shift out of focus. But she sees it — the light — flickering in front of her. Calling out to her.