This town will eat you up if you’re not careful. But I won’t be here forever.

“Tadas was sent to the principal today," announced Jonas at dinner. He wedged a …”

“But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us," I sa…”

“Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.”

“Hello, Josie,” they’d say with a half smile, followed by a sigh and sometimes a…”