From novelette to flash fiction, snippets of three novels to a final essay, from voices old and young, mixing the ethereal and actual in tales of misadventure, guilt, murder, bigotry, the thrill and angst of a one-night stand, poignant as the breath of evil or memory in ache to breathe, where common lives bleed over […]

At eighteen, after a turbulent and bewildering childhood, Natalie, dubbed the family liar, sets out to uncover what kept her family in constant chaos. She traces her family’s shifting stories and struggles with a devastating doubt: “Was it all my fault?”