A Court of Frost and Starlight

How fast an ordinary morning can become a road full of metal.

The car is eviscerated. The impact of a four-ton pickup truck going sixty miles an hour plowing straight into the passenger side had the force of an atom bomb. It tore off the doors, sent the front-side passenger seat through the driver’s-side window. It flipped the chassis, bouncing it across the road and ripped the engine apart as if it were no stronger than a spiderweb. It tossed wheels and hubcaps deep into the forest. It ignited bits of the gas tank, so that now tiny flames lap at the wet road.

If I Stay · Gayle Forman

Some people are simply at home in the world. The rest of us watch them.

It must have worked for her, because it never mattered where she was in the world, she was home. She waltzed through life like she belonged at every party she was never invited to, fell in love with every lonely heart she found, and found luck in every adventure. She had that air about her-tourists asked her for directions when she went abroad, servers asked her opinion on wines and fine whiskeys, celebrities asked her about her life.

The Seven Year Slip · Ashley Poston

Some people spend years being told their needs are too many.

You’re not asking too much,“ he said. ”You were just asking the wrong person. Ask me instead.

Just for the Summer · Abby Jimenez