• Chapter 12 "Dress Up"

    Lillian was sitting at a plastic picnic table in a backyard, identical to the seemingly thousands of plastic picnic tables she'd sat at before at these birthday parties. With a small sundae cup in hand,...

  • Chapter 11 "20k Miles Under The Sea"

    It was warm. It was warm all over, like life itself was giving her a hug. That was until the sound started to come back, and she could hear someone crying over her. When Alexis Lafayette finally got her...

  • Chapter 10 "Pretend It's A Rocket Ship"

    Maddie had never seen an ambulance up close before. But that day, the day of her party...well, needless to say she'd never expected the first time she'd see one up close would be at her own birthday...

  • Chapter 9 "XING"

    "You know, I'm starting to think I'm cursed," Lillian said, making Greg furrow his brow, cross his legs and tap his pen on his clipboard. "How so?" he asked. "I'm surrounded by death," she continued,...

  • Chapter 8 "Rapunzel, Rapunzel"

    "Thank god," Rina said, opening the front door to find Lillian standing there in jeans and a t-shirt from an old mini golf establishment. "Don't thank god, thank me, I'm the one filling in," Lillian...

  • Chapter 7 "She Wanted To Be Like You"

    It was absolutely packed with people. Apparently, as Alex put it when they started to walk up, the only things that brought a neighborhood out in masse was the murder of a child or a really good BBQ....