And maybe that’s it- if your family is broken and ruined, go find another one, or better yet, go make another one.

You asked me if I believed in magic, and I said yes, and that’s how. You just step out, start pulling your life out of the air. You make friends, you find work you really...

Ella, if it’s magic, then nothing is supposed to happen.

Eliot, huh?” she says. The thin fabric of her long T-shirt brushes my arm. “Is everyone in your family named for a famous symbolist poet?”No, I’m named for someone who was supposed to be in...

When you grow up the way I do, and the biggest thing in your life so far has been getting dunked in a glass tank by a man who acts like he’s mugging you but...

Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

She looked like she believed in something, or wanted to, and I hoped to hell it wasn’t God, not in the way The Dad believes, because all that does is make him forced and desperate....