Smallara

Dayton backed into her room and kicked the door shut with her heel, Ezra steady on her shoulder like he weighed nothing and somehow still changed everything.  She lifted her…

“Let's check out the snackage situation downstairs,” Dayton said as she lowered her hand for Ezra to climb onto.     “You shouldn’t be eating snacks this late,” Ezra said from…

“Let's check out the snackage situation downstairs.” Dayton said as she lowered her hand for Ezra to climb onto.     “You shouldn’t be eating snacks this late,” Ezra said from Dayton’s desk.  Dayton…

Dayton lowered her laptop lid gently. The room got quieter in that specific way it always did when a call ended, like the air had been borrowing other voices to…

Dayton had been deep into her homework and chatting with her friends. The chatting was mostly mindless, the kind where you answered on autopilot while your brain stayed locked on…

The voices of her friends filled the room. The laughter, the camaraderie as she did her homework. Working through subject as she joined in here and there. But her focus in the back of her mind was on Ezra.…