Taffy

Head for the finger piers to see what’s up with the Blue Jays and Whalers. All the Jays are out…

Homework

Get up and slouch off upstairs, calculating how much effort to put into excuses, and how much on homework. No…

Linda calls me into her office as I walk by. “Evan? Word?” She was a high school English teacher in…

“Love ‛Treat.’ Slow dance,” I say. Feel a hand on my shoulder. Laura Essex. The perfect small, chocolate brown velvet…

1959 Chapter 1 “We think that ‘the good life’ is in the past, but it’s not, it’s now, just being…

Maybe it is the jetlag, or the steam heat, or the rush of events, but I close my eyes, and…

Candy and Taffy are cousins, best friends and rivals, coming-of-age on Long Island in 1969. Roberta rounds out their clique.…