Activity

“Okay, well,” she said, stopping the chair again with her foot, “when you say it like that, I start filling in blanks. I know it’s not that you don’t know, or don’t think so; it’s that you don’t want to tell me what you actually think. Or you think you’ve already told me, and you’re trying to make …

“Are we having a fight?” he said.

It came out like a burp. But if it was going to get asked, he was glad he’d managed to ask it before she did. If they were, that is. Having a fight.

“What do you mean?” she said.

“I don’t know,” he said.

“Then why did you ask it?” she said.

“I don’t …

“You never responded to Michigan,” he said.

“I said no to Michigan,” she said.

“You didn’t,” he said.

“Well,” she said. “No. I don’t want to go to Michigan for vacation.”

“Where do you want to go?” he said.

“You need a want, Miles,” she said. “You brought it up, so you should know wh…

There are ways I could improve myself, but I am also capable. I am not powerless. I am not my past.

I am not the product of other people, not Maggie, or Evelyn, or Ed. I made myself and, if I choose to, I can change. I can imagine myself differently. I can make the imagination real. Who said tha…

At some point Jason came out with beers and sat next to me. He drank beer now, which was disappointing. Then again, so did I. It was disappointing that both of us now drank beer. In high school, not drinking had felt special, like you were making a statement about the clichéd expectations of Americ…