I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.

I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.

The lonely reality of the truth-that the most important person in your life suddenly ceased to exist. Which on a bad day meant maybe she had never existed at all. And on a good day, there was the other fear. That even if you were a hundred percent sure she had been there, maybe you were the only one who cared or remembered.

falling not flying one lost muddy shoe like the lost worlds between me and you

Maybe all crows were just creepy.

Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.