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Sam

The Boy Who Kept Watch

The Boy Who Kept Watch

Chapter One: The Red Mark Noah had started counting the bad days on his fingers. He didn’t tell anyone he did it. He didn’t tell Mia, because Mia was five and still believed that if you didn’t talk about a thing, the thing eventually forgot to be true. He didn’t tell Dad, because Dad worked ...

Sam

The Night the Power Went Out

The Night the Power Went Out

The storm knocked the power out at 7:14 in the evening, which we know precisely because our daughter had just asked, for the third time, how many more minutes until her show, and the television answered by dying mid sentence. For about ten seconds, the whole house was silent in that particular way a house ...