Sometimes people run… to see if you'll come after them

Good-bye Dr. Steve,' I said, then climbed the stairs and went to the fifth floor to die.

Angus looked at Hamish. "I hate it when Mom and Dad fight." Hamish smoothed his brother's messy hair. "Me too.

Pretend and it will be true.

Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.

So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.