• Chapter 59 "Mom"

    Michelle was panting, leaning against the wall, across the room from her mother who was knelt over, trying to catch her breath. The living room was, to put it politely, demolished; their respective hair...

  • Chapter 58 "The Things We Felt"

    Michelle stood by the door in The Hole. She had been let onto the lot by Eliza, while she and Keagan delivered puppets and props to the stage for that afternoons production shoot. Justine was supposed...

  • Chapter 62 "Turtles All The Way Down"

    Rachel sat on the stage of her schools auditorium, doing her paint work on the cardboard props scattered around her. She'd been coming here after school so she could work by herself, as opposed to coming...

  • Chapter 57 "It's You"

    Eliza was seated in her bedroom, sewing sewing sewing. Nonstop sewing. The machine never ending, the puppet taking form and shape. Emotions surged through Eliza in ways she'd never felt, and never wanted...

  • Chapter 61 "In The Interest Of Everyone"

    Bodies lay strewn across the courtyard, the compound frozen and lifeless. Wyatt Bloom was laying up against a car, breathing hard, unable to focus his eyes. It had all happened so fast, so very fast,...

  • Chapter 56 "Adoptive Agency"

    "This is..." Delores said, but she couldn't even finish the thought. She set the script down on her lap and looked at Justine and Michelle seated across from her in the living room. She shook her head...