There were tiny rainbows in that glass. I turned it so a…

“Ty?” I said, trying out your name, liking the way it sounded. “So what’s it like anyway? Australia?” You smiled then, and your whole…

— Lucy Christopher

“She strokes my cheeks with the side of her hand – a repetitive, wispy motion. Like little ghost kisses.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“When I call his name, it’s a sound almost entirely out of my control. It soars over the crowd and hits him. Even from…

— Lauren DeStefano

“I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and…

— Roman Payne

“It radiates out from him like a cloud of ghosts, countless hands clutching at the air, reaching out for…something.”

— Isaac Marion

“He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“He rubbed my arm, whispering words that sounded like moth bodies flying into glass windows.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“The train’s doors closed with a matron’s shush.”

— Kevin Ansbro

“It feels as though we’re going in slow motion. I think we’ll never get away. But eventually the Ferris wheel is far enough away…

— Lauren DeStefano

“There’s this anomaly that happens sometimes with twins. It occurs in the womb when the fetuses are growing too closely to each other. The…

— Lauren DeStefano

“It’s a world worth fighting for. Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“The windows are empty holes lined with glass teeth.”

— Isaac Marion

“Dragged from your room. A red crease of sleep visible down your cheek, eyes foggy with the adjustment from a state of rest to…

— Ali Land

“I wipe at her cheeks with the cuff of my green sweater because it’s the softest thing I can think of. It catches her…

— Lauren DeStefano

“She was supposed to build sand castles on the beach and put her toes in the ocean,” Madame says.”

— Lauren DeStefano