The Hills at Wallston Park
Wallston is a national treasure. You can hike for days and never see another soul. If a tree falls in the woods and there's no one around to hear it, that tree can make the sweetest song an ear could ever hear. Patrick knows. Patrick knows what it takes to be that man who no longer exists. That man who could tell you exactly how that song goes, because he held the saw.
Hero Status
The fact of the matter is, it's better to be lucky than it is to have been truly great at anything. Of this, Mike was growing more certain every passing day that swept him further along the streams of his mediocre life.
Causeway
Yipsbend was a mobile town built on the flood plains of a river that saw floods about as often as Acey saw relatives from the high country down in "the bends" on recreation. He could not remember what he saw in Rawna that told him it was the place he was born to be a part of. He could not remember the last time the river swell smelled as tender as it did to him now.
See, Feel, Find Me
Steven Fly was like any other teen growing into adulthood. He was not interested in being wealthy or famous. All he wanted was to fit into the world in all the ways he had not fit into the lives of his family. A little understanding can go so long a way. Steven Fly could not find anyone to understand him. He would have to do his best to understand himself.
Dream Scar
Shelly loved her daughter. She loved her more than many things on this Earth. Sometimes the most fatal of wounds can begin with love's pledge. Shelly loved her daughter very much.
Richmond County Fair
There used to be a Ferris wheel in Richmond. A Ferris wheel and a trolley and a carousel and contortionists. There used to be a freak show in Richmond, before the ground was plowed up to make way for the tri-state landfill, and sod, and the homes that eventually sprouted like Dandelions. There used to be a big top and a ring leader in a striped top hat in Richmond, before Scranton and his mother moved in.
The Dreaming Door
The simple things in life can be the most difficult to understand. Brad knew this to be true, firsthand. He also knew the things he knew to be true could not hold a candle to the squall of the common. People will do strange things to forget. People will do stranger things in the grip of memory.
Someone Raises the Wolves
Titans of industry and warriors of board rooms all have their beginnings. Engineered by mothers and fathers and the drive and law of nature herself, every child leaves home to go forth and conquer, but no child, grown through life's sinuous and winding threads and can imagine the beginnings of their end.
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The best of friends as friends could be. The minutes and seconds before anyone can understand the divisions of minds and egos between boys who would just as soon be brothers and twins are fantastic times. Almost as fantastic as the unknowable depths of super nature that match the spread and glow of her quantified and traversed and understood majesty.
