I spend the next few days in a kind of stunned purgatory. My mind replays that kiss over and over again, recalling the silver flecks in...

“Trigonometry,” says a voice in the darkness. For one bittersweet moment I flash into the past, a little boy lost, afraid and alone. With...

Somehow I went for years without seeing Kim Taehyung. He hovered low in my mind, the same quiet and insistent worry that I have knowing...

Jimin tucks me in at night, murmuring things about Yoongi’s huge house. “It’s very comfortable,” he assures me. “And very safe.” That...

I hear a sharp gasp. “Is he—” Is he dead? That’s what the unknown man asks. The strange part is not knowing the answer. Am I dead? “He’ll...

He stalks into the apartment as if he owns it, which he does. His cool grey gaze takes in my father and his broken knee with a single,...

Of course, we don’t play cards at anything as mundane as a kitchen table. Not over a coffee table, the way Dad sometimes fiddles with an...

With a creak the door opens. The dark silhouette is tall and familiar, the dark eyes a strange relief. I would have expected a doorman....

When I played dumb on the elementary school playground, I didn’t fully understand what I was turning down. Mrs. Keller made it sound...

When I first came to live with Dad he worked in a prison-release program at Goodwill. He would pick things out of the donation piles to...

The next day I spend most of recess in the jungle gym, in that dark, quiet place beneath the slide and behind the rusted metal wall with...

For a half second, I think it’s the same man from school. The one who’s tall and dark, his voice too smooth and his smile too cold to be...

The ground is soft beneath my feet, like it’s made from Play-dough instead of dirt. Rainwater pools beneath the seat of the swing, where...

One of Amma’s boyfriends took us on a trip when I turned four. We visited this restaurant that had a special mermaid show. Metal...