Fliss sat next to Minnie and the little one, letting the soft yet clear notes of song fall into her ears.
When I got to the gym for basketball tryouts tonight, I counted twenty-eight kids. That meant twenty kids would make one of the two teams, and everyone else would get cut. So I liked my odds.
Here’s the thing about life-shattering days. They start just like any other.
A country boy of ten living near Boneville was, recently, walking to his house in the vicinity of a large oak tree, when a violent storm arose.
I am running through the desert, the red earth firm and unyielding beneath my trainers.
I ’m not afraid of flying. The chances of dying in a plane crash for the average frequent flyer are one in eleven million.
JUNE 12, 1954— The drive from Salina to Morgen was three hours, and for much of it, Emmett hadn’t said a word.
Jake lay on top of his board, feeling the swells move beneath him, like the air moving in and out of his lungs, like the blood surging through the four chambers of his stubbornly beating heart.
Breathing covers a spectrum of needs, and it is important to know the best way to breathe in order to meet our needs at any moment, and how best we can move through sleep, rest, activity, exercise, sport, play, work, stress, ill health and recovery.
Inside Laura's head, Deidre spoke. The trouble with you, Laura, she said, is that you make bad choices.
They were still 400 yards from the strip of white beach and the crammed jungle behind it when the fighter planes came.
From his height only a hundred feet above the trees, the pilot could see two people running over the ground below – one coming out of a wood, another through a gate in the lane, clinging on to his hat as he ran.
I WASN’T PRESENT at the courthouse in Erva, Alabama, on that morning in June, when events unfolded that would suck me into the undertow of Douglas County.
