All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

by Bryn Greenwood

could have told him there was no sense in rushing toward being dead. It would find you soon enough, and before it did there were pleasures to make your heart hurt less. If

Once, she visited the house, so she and Aunt Brenda could discuss her concerns about me not being baptized. Swimming in a stock tank under the full moon didn’t count.

You make people interested in you by keeping secrets, not by passing them out like candy at Halloween.