Claire Bell
Overheard in hallway after
lockdown lifted.
Will we ever laugh again?
Terry Crowe
Overheard in hallway after
lockdown lifted.
We
all need wings.
Victoria Byle
Overheard in hallway after
lockdown lifted.
I
was right to hate that kid.
Ally Lone
Overheard in hallway after
lockdown lifted.
Would
a friend have made a difference?
Billy Belfry
Overheard in hallway after
lockdown lifted.
Crazy
damn kid.
James B. Kuhl III
Overheard in hallway after
lockdown lifted.
My
father won’t put up with this.
Melanie Fly
Overheard in hallway after
lockdown lifted.
Can
death find you anywhere?
Chris Cross
Overheard in hallway after
lockdown lifted.
Jesus.
Oh
Jesus!
Mary Goodwin
Overheard in hallway after
lockdown lifted.
There’s
more than one way to make a monster.
Billy Kidd
Note in File.
Wild
Bill and Wyatt Earp and them made cowboys check their guns—turn them in—before they rode into town. It’s right there, in print, in all them books
I read.
Jennifer Queen
Note in File.
Would
he have hurt me?
That’s
not how I saw it, not in my dream, the one where we were royalty. King.
Queen. And Joe was there, too,
helping us with our dreams. Like what happens
in some stories and movies and the Bible.
Dreams
inside dreams … such things can go on forever, you know?
Joe Britecote
Note in File.
I
did dream that this would happen … really.
But I just did not believe it, you know?
Afterwards,
I saw Jennifer in the library. She came
over to my table, leaned down, whispered, “You were in my dream.”
And
then I said—before I even thought about it at all: “I’d rather be in your life.”
She
stared at me. I felt myself shrivel like
a cold worm on a hot sidewalk.
Then
she said, “But you are, Joe. You are.”
She
turned and went back to her friends and I know that I’ll be thinking about
those six words—But you are, Joe. You are.—for the rest of my whole entire life.
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