As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.

You know what else is hot?" said a nameless blonde as she put her arm around the one black girl. "What?" "Bisexuals." "Totally. Well, not like real bisexuals who are just sort of your everyday people, but, like, the kind of bisexuals you see in magazines wearing nothing but body paint and kissing both boys and girls to promote a new single." "Totally, totally hot.

She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

Helloooo." Miss Ohio rolled her eyes. "I'm from the Buckeye State. We are serious about our tailgating parties. I can turn anything into a grill.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.