My hands were sweaty. I opened my palms outward, standing like an anatomy chart and letting the ocean breeze evaporate my fear. “Cary, pay attention.” I nodded and focused on the horizon, where people once believed we would fall off into oblivion. Coach Dade wasn’t much older than me. He […]
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The monarchs were passing through, as they did every year, an intergenerational parade of orange and black, cascading down the coast and then tumbling back up. One rested on the sill of the open window to the boy’s room, as if to catch its breath, unaware that it was interrupting […]
A murder of crows cackled above. I plunked down cross-legged on the ground and propped my head up with both hands, surveying the shifting landscape. Mists crawled past, parting to reveal a desert one moment and a lush forest the next. Time meant nothing, so something new, something ancient, or […]