• Chapter 53 "Roommates"

    Wyatt was fast asleep on the couch, enjoying the quiet. He was so used to being woken up to help with the kids, make Mona breakfast, take them to school, and, lately, get into a fight with Scarlett. To...

  • Chapter 52 "The Scarlett Letter"

    Angie Dickenson was standing in the middle of the hall of the dog shelter she worked in, caged in dogs on either side of her, as she stared at one in particular; a large, German Shepard. She had been...

  • Chapter 40 "New Costume"

    Helena came here at least once a month. She stood in front of the headstone and she stared, silent and stoic, she tried to think of what she and her son might talk about had he survived. Had he still...

  • Chapter 51 "Muddy Shovels"

    The car roared along beneath her as Rachel drove through the rain and the mud, the sky thundering above her. She didn't know where she was going, she just knew she had to go somewhere, put the car somewhere....

  • Chapter 50 "Get Famous"

    When she was a little girl, Amelia Burden used to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on television every year, mostly because of the balloons. Those great gas giants, hoisted high above the crowd,...

  • Chapter 39 "Twinsies"

    John was standing on the docks, hands in his pockets. Ellen was seated on a bench back near the front of the area, opting instead to not be near the water. His eyes scanned the horizons, his hair blew...