Seven-year-old Isabella Thompson pressed her hands into the cool, moist dirt of her grandfather's garden. She peeled away the surface like an old scab. Beneath, a reddish-brown earthworm squirmed – ... [+]
Anna knew the bridge was a mistake before she and Henry even got there. Maybe it was because he had said he thought it was strange for full grown adults to interrupt a conversation to swoon over an animal, or maybe it was because when she asked him where he went to college, he responded with California. Either way, she regretted agreeing to a route that lacked multiple exit points, one that prevented her from feigning illness whenever she wanted and taking off in the opposite direction after a speedy apology. On the dating app, she had asked him what he did. Finance. Doing what? Risk analysis