The last month and a half have been a lesson in how little a person can change: when faced with the idea of personal growth, Rose likes to think about physical growth, and how she'd have to have one to have the other. There was a period after she'd moved, after she'd gone through all of her old life, dug out her senior pictures and had to slip ( Read more... )

Sugar, you sure you want to be doing that? Run. Runaway. You're not as safe as you thought you were, are you? It's only a matter of time. He will find you when he wants you.She'd found it: the swamp. Trisha may have passed it a hundred times and somehow never seen it, but when she did, she found it and viewed it with a kind of dread that she couldn ( Read more... )

For weeks the salon has been done, and only just now, today, did it occur to Shane that it might be a good idea to advertise. Not that she's planning on charging anything to cut hair in the middle of this Utopian hippie society they've got going on here, but the benefit is twofold: She gets to give back, and she stays busy, which is probably the ( Read more... )

Ever have a dream with a false ending? You wake up, start to calm down from all the bullshit your head just put you through, then the ax murderer breaks into your room and scares you awake all over again. That's how Rose Walker feels, picking her way through the dark forest she wasn't in when she fell asleep, goosebumps down her back and braced ( Read more... )