Fear can look like discipline if you do not live with it.

Julian grew up in the space between us.

He learned which rooms could hold her name and which rooms would go silent if he said it.

He became careful, then private, then a boy who sewed at 1 a.m. because daylight belonged to a father who could not bear the color red.

Willowcrest is a town that likes tidy stories.

Twins who both live.