“Wow.” “I know right?” Candace does one of those hip bouncing side to side pirouettes, her hands flipped out like a tutu. “Did they lighten your brows too?” “Duh of course” she says. She gives me a sharp smile flashing her recently straightened, newly whitened teeth. I’m trying to reconcile Read more
“Sabrina you never follow the fucking rules, what’d ‘you expect?” We’re standing ankle deep in stagnant cold water and it’s still rising. It’s less and less yellow. “Are you gonna help me or not? Shit, can you fix it?” She’s getting shrill which means I only have about five minutes Read more
We’re about to get expelled and it’s going to be on Mikal. Principal Eggerton sniffed out the weak link as soon as we settled into the surplus cafeteria chairs facing his office. I watch him watching us through the glass door to his office, as if we’re in a precinct lineup. Read more
I can’t believe he didn’t warn me. I mean WTF? A forty minute train ride and not a mention? All I can do is keep smiling the now stale smile that’s a little two wide to sustain. This moment will forever be referenced as the time Max betrayed me just Read more
It was an old trick. Stephen had been using it for years – ever since he moved to the city. He wasn’t the first person to reinvent himself and all those years of high school French finally had a purpose. Ignorance is a great defence when presented in the context Read more
He’s walking right to me. He walks with the springy gait and stiff shoulders of a resident gym rat, huge negative space between his bowed thighs and his arms sit well away from his torso. The subway platform isn’t crowded at this time of day but he’s not stopping at any Read more
Some things you just know. Zara’s Advanced Humanities teacher encouraged her to call it intuition. Zara was pretty sure sharing a bloodline with people gave you an intuitive edge about them but that didn’t necessarily constitute an intuitive gift. Since childhood Zara had a sense that her parents were living with a big secret. Read more
It’s not just because he wants better for me. That’s just the script, the lines he’s supposed to say to justify his actions in the never-ending scene of rage. He’s an angry man. He’s angry that all the things he didn’t have and had to fight for come so easily Read more