Befri & Stend On our first night as roommates, I slept at an ex’s. He had a spare bed, and…
Nice To Meet You Again “And this is your Uncle Felix. And your Tita Luz. And your Tita Reyna. And…
First Encounter Pan across a food court entrance, individuals funneling in as they find friends and join tables. Clusters noticing…
Chapter Three Your Sins Will Find You Out There was no terminal. No sign of other buses coming or going.…
Chapter Two Carol and Cheryl and Bonitasue The parsonage office was clean and neat but smelled like a burying ground…
Chapter One Under the Bleachers We left home before dawn and drove south to Edenfield. My wife, Holly, slept in…
CHAPTER 3 DECONSTRUCTION Summer, 2007 Not long after my video interview with Grandma, summertime brought an opportunity to see a…
CHAPTER 2 WILL THE CIRCLE BE BROKEN Spring, 2007 Now smaller in her polyester button-down shirt, my grandma greeted me…
CHAPTER 1 FORGET ME NOT Spring, 1962 “All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow…
The year is 1962 and young Weldon Thatcher, caught between two worlds (boyhood and manhood, cartoons and raging hormones) is…