They were friends, he lied with bright-eyed eagerness that made him later want to go sulk in dark places, and couldn't he at least take her homework to her?
Category: Short stories
If the accident had happened differently, there might have been some hope, but that half-state had already been resolved: the box was open, and the cat was dead and only not yet buried.
In the west quarter I tried to find this lovely girl who'd been teaching dolphins to play the underwater saxophone the year before...