KILEY. REID

SUCH A FUN AGE.

Amelia Stephens

“I just think it would be best if we went our separate ways and... that those paths never like... came back together"

Briar is so ADORABLE I can't stop smiling.

Iara Figueira

“You all done?” Alix asked Briar, who nodded with her mouth still full, and Alix set her on the floor.

“Mama?” Briar ambled over to Catherine. She swiped her sister’s blond hair across her forehead, and Catherine beamed. “How does feathers get wet?”

“Umm, in the rain?” Alix said. “Or when birds take a bath? Let’s be gentle with baby sis.”

“But how—because . . . the feathers is . . . how the feathers get wet and fly away?”

“Bri, look.” Alix picked up a pink ball from a bin of toys and tossed it down the hall. Briar gasped, overjoyed, and dutifully pumped her arms as she went running after it.

Zara had two sisters, one of whom struggled with anorexia, and the other with depression, two conditions that Emira’s mother believed black people didn’t “get.” 

“Nooo! Not the Halloween party at Lulu’s!”

Emira laughed. “I brought my cat ears and everything. It just pissed me off that she didn’t want to talk to her kid and made her miss a party because of it.”

“Well, any mom who misses the chance to dress her kid up like a hot dog sounds like a psychopath to me.”

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