word of honor.” I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls—walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground—there is a possibility that in some way or...

Dave put a lot of thought into picking out the books his dad would like least.

Adding kidney beans to his cottage cheese and pineapple was an act of bravery Dave had not intended.

On the porch were the still-smoking remains of long-stemmed roses, evidence that someone angry and passive-aggressive didn’t know Peter was out of town.