AR CribbinsHomecoming & Other Mistakes: Chapter 30 + EpilogueI woke up Saturday morning to light streaming through my crooked blinds and the sound of voices, coming from somewhere behind my closed…Jan 11, 2018Jan 11, 2018
AR CribbinsHomecoming & Other Mistakes: Chapter 29Returning to school wasn’t as terrible as I thought it would be. For two days, I was fine. Teek had mercifully dropped the Ken-subject for…Jan 5, 2018Jan 5, 2018
AR CribbinsHomecoming & Other Mistakes: Chapter 28Mom didn’t ask me again why I’d wanted to stay home from school, and I didn’t bring it up. Either she’d interpreted “some drama with some…Dec 21, 2017Dec 21, 2017
AR CribbinsHomecoming & Other Mistakes: Chapter 27I could avoid Adam at school. That was easy enough because he was avoiding me. But given the cramped square footage of the Courtyard…Dec 14, 2017Dec 14, 2017
AR CribbinsHomecoming & Other Mistakes: Chapter 26I’m not sure how I dragged myself to school the next day. I certainly didn’t want to go, and was having trouble making myself care about…Dec 7, 2017Dec 7, 2017
AR CribbinsHomecoming & Other Mistakes: Chapter 25Adam ignored me at school on Monday. I knew it would happen when he didn’t call me back all weekend, and I’d had time to steel myself, but…Nov 30, 2017Nov 30, 2017
AR CribbinsHomecoming & Other Mistakes: Chapter 24The next morning I woke up feeling like shit. This expression has become too casual, so let me clarify: I felt like a literal turd that had…Nov 25, 2017Nov 25, 2017
AR CribbinsHomecoming & Other Mistakes: Chapter 23We were heading for the Pizza Palace downtown. I almost never went downtown, so this was exciting. Street lights and neon flashed patterns…Nov 16, 2017Nov 16, 2017
AR CribbinsHomecoming & Other Mistakes: Chapter 22Adam held up the baggie in front my face; the two candy-like pieces of Ecstasy smiled at me from one corner.Nov 9, 2017Nov 9, 2017
AR CribbinsHomecoming & Other Mistakes: Chapter 21After we’d had our fill of spinning around in Adam’s truck, Adam drove me home and invited himself in. He was completely over getting mad…Nov 2, 2017Nov 2, 2017