A Wing and a Prayer

After the last week and my ruminations on the hurt I’d caused through my real-life actions, I did something I’d never done in my life last night: I prayed. I made an appeal, noting out loud that life never works like this but nevertheless begging a higher power to turn back the clock so that […]

We All Deserve Sympathy

If I’m committing to still writing stories about people going through high school, I need to keep a few things in mind. The first, which I’ve talked about a fair bit over the years, is how to frame everything from the dialogue to the sexuality. My dialogue sits firmly in the camp of “what we […]