• Chapter 42 "The Gene Pool"

    Gently rocking. The soft sound of water. A dim, orange light slipping in through the slivers of the windowshades. Alexis put her arm up over her face, and then gasped in surprise as Rick mounted her and...

  • Chapter 41 "It's All Just Make Believe"

    Hours upon hours of scrolling. Thousands of articles, listacles, seemingly private records of addresses and phone numbers, all leading to the inevitable dead end that always seemed to loom just around...

  • 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 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...

  • Chapter 38 "Ahoy"

    Alexis couldn't stop shaking. She was sitting in her apartment on her couch, with Ellen in a loveseat across the room and Rick picking up the place, likely to keep himself from losing it, and was unsure...

  • 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...