I thought about that while he made his next calls, while I kept on with the newsletters. I thought about it during Sunday service at Word of Life, and during study hours in my room,...

It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.

In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I’d ever been of anything or anyone in my life.

The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.

That’s because we have it so good”, I told her, trying on his deep voice. We impersonated him all the way home, laughing and blowing bubbles, both of us knowing that he was right. We...

But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole world beyond that shoreline, beyond the forest, beyond the knuckle mountains, beyond, beyond,...

I was doing my little stand up shtick, the one I did for pretty girls, so they’d like me quickly and wouldn’t try too hard to actually get to know me beyond my role as...

If you don’t know for sure, then what’s the big thing about trying stuff out?” Jamie said, looking not at me but looking out at that statue, just like Hennitz.I still didn’t have any of...