We Run the Tides

And choosing teenage protagonists made sense: When you’re a teenager you’re trying on new identities, and lying is, to some extent, part of that shape-shifting. The trick is to eventually be able to tell the truth about yourself.

His fingers spider-walk over to my hand and he holds it. I feel his heartbeat in his thumb.

We can feel this urge pulsating through our bodies, but we don’t know what to call it

My father has always been able to look past the damaged lives a house has witnessed

Everything ugly is hidden.