• Chapter 48 "Put Your Tray Tables up"

    Eliza didn't want to be here. The one and only time she'd been to a funeral, it had been for her mother. Now, here she was, standing outside the church, while Casey's service was underway indoors. She...

  • Chapter 37 "Bat Meets Face"

    "My parents gave me cocoa after my brother died," Lux said. She was sitting at the table in the kitchen, the glass, piping hot and full of marshmallows, in front of her. Lilian, Miranda and Maddie were...

  • Chapter 48 "My Friend's Sister"

    Amelia opened the bedroom door and stood in the frame of the doorway, staring into its darkness. She hesitated going inside, as if she would be somehow violating Calvin's privacy, and then she remembered...

  • Chapter 47 "I Guess You Should Know"

    Liam was sitting in the pizzeria, watching the animatronic band. He had been coming here a lot lately, trying to grapple with his mortality. He was holding his cane in his lap, his other hand gripping...

  • Chapter 36 "Most Uncomfortable Party Ever"

    When Lilian got the black envelope, everyone knew what it meant. It had been something they'd all hoped to never receive, and, for the most part, hadn't. There'd only been one instance of someone getting...

  • Chapter 47 "Daddy's Home"

    "Your father scares the hell out of me," Amelia said. She and Wyatt were sitting in his bedroom, Wyatt on the floor leaning against his bed while Amelia was up in the nook of the large, round window...