The Place Where Promises Aren’t Kept [Chapter 17] Do you know how when you get a new thing you want to use it all the time? You also can’t help wanting to talk to people about it, too. I mean, the internet wasn’t really new. But having it be really fast was something new. RuneContinue reading “Other People are Hard”
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Adults Don’t Understand
The Place Where Promises Aren’t Kept [Chapter 14] I almost was ready to burst out at Kyle as we went back to the computer after dinner. He had said the thing I had told him not to mention, the thing about going into the computer lab at lunch. I held back. I knew that evenContinue reading “Adults Don’t Understand”
Dinner with a Friend
The Place Where Promises Aren’t Kept [Chapter 13] Just about the time I suspected, I heard my mom’s voice from the kitchen. “Dinner in ten, boys.” My mom’s estimations were always longer than what they actually were. Kyle had been wandering around with my character in the desert for a while, seeking out any challengesContinue reading “Dinner with a Friend”
Clothes Make the Man
Clothes make the man, he thinks to himself. The little man at the front of the bus has to wear the little blue hat and tight little blue suit because he drives it. Or does he get to drive it because he wears those things? The blue-suited man tells them they have to get off,Continue reading “Clothes Make the Man”
The End of It All
Impasse – Chapter Twelve [Final] “Jess called us,” the chief explained as Farva returned to relative consciousness in the back of the ambulance, the warmth burning his digits. “She…” “You don’t deserve that woman, Farve,” the chief muttered, shaking his head. “If I called my wife in the middle of the night, expecting her toContinue reading “The End of It All”
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