"It started as an endearment, her finger in his belly button an intimacy that was uniquely and solely theirs. His navel swallowed not one...

"Jenny Muller was different. And not just because her ponytail was off to one side or because she didn't do her science homework. I sat...

"The Marq was still frozen. The defroster blew open a set of eyes on the bottom of the windshield. Wayne swiped the ice off the dash and...

"She hired me to shovel snow but when the waiter from Argentina never showed I was rotated into the waiting staff, two days busing, four...