Every Good Thing

Didi stood awkwardly, uncertain what to with her hands.

How did it come to this, that she would be reduced to a blubbering mass of awkwardness before her mother and younger sister?

The Abduction of Rose

My best friend Rose has been abducted by aliens and I am the only person that knows this. The aliens replaced Rose with a replica, one that looks like her and has her voice but I am not fooled. The replica is not acting like Rose at all. That first night in the dormitory, the…

A Memory of Screams

Once, it had been Agatha who had held the sacred duty of reminding Ruth to bathe, to brush her teeth, to blink her eyes every few seconds so people will not think she was a statue.

It was futile because Ruth and her blank confident stare held all the power, even though Agatha was the grown-up and Ruth, the child.