Chapter 1 from Beau & Bett

Chapter One (Once Upon A Time) For one very long second, I wanted to believe this was someone else’s life—anyone who wasn’t named Beau LeFrancois. Anyone who wasn’t me. Pause . . . Rewind . . . Play . . . It’d been a long day at school, which was basically every day and any…

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Chapter 1 from “Ricochet”

Tati A story starts like this and ends like that. But sometimes we can only guess when a story really starts and wonder if it ever really ends. My story starts when Priya and I spit into our matching tiny plastic vials. We spit until they’re full—mine, slightly yellow-tinged; Priya’s, clear and frothy. “You so…

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