• Chapter 15 "For All The Right Reasons"

    High school graduation is one of those things you never expect to actually happen. You fixate on it for so long, you always imagine life after school, but you never really expect it to come, and when...

  • Chapter 5 "They Think It'll Help"

    This was the first time since the funeral that Palmer had returned to the house. Standing in the kitchen with her mother, while she piled through plastic container of food after plastic container of food...

  • Chapter 14 "Career Criminal"

    Calvin stepped back from the table and smiled. He was looking down at his creation, his bomb, then grabbed a nearby damp washcloth and cleaned his hands of the grime and sweat that had accrued on them...

  • Chapter 4 "The Person I Most Admire Is"

    Dodie was sitting in her bedroom on her bed, trying to do her homework, but she was finding she was having a harder and harder time even getting started. Essay homework was never her strong suit, and...

  • Chapter 13 "The Trickle Down Effect"

    Oliver Brighton had been a great student. He'd been on the honor all throughout grade school, he'd been class valedictorian and he'd been so well put together that even Wyatt Bloom had been kind to him...

  • Chapter 40 "Senior Prom"

    The home was beautifully decorated. Carol and company had really gone all out, it seemed. The place felt more cheerful and full of life than it had in recent memory, and standing in the bingo hall -...