Popularity means people think they know you.

Popularity means people think they know you.

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.

You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?

The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.

You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.