Conner hadn’t liked leaving the gravesite with his father still not buried. But he’d learned from his grandmother’s funeral that you have to go. It’s expected. Nobody hangs around the cemetary. Grief—a little or a...

If you don’t deal with the past, the past deals with you.

I wish kids at school would quit calling me a porno dork-face, though. There wasn’t any sex involved! I got knocked out, I panicked and called the cops. Okay, somewhere along the line everybody’s clothes...