When someone needs help, you help. Right?

“Julia was like water in his hands. She'd slipped right through. Lovely and stra…”

“Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned b…”

“Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.”

“That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to …”