CONTENTS

1. Title Page
2. Copyright Notice
3. Dedication
4. It Begins
5. Seven Hours Earlier
6. Holding Up
7. After First Period
8. Now
9. No-Limit Texas Hold'em
10. Crush
11. Stranger Danger (Vehicular Edition)
12. Hair Clips and Heartbreakers
13. Waffles
14. Then: Waffle Monster (Eight Years Ago)
15. Now: to Be Clear
16. Back to the Grind
17. Personal Escort
18. Storage Closet Roulette
19. Paddles and Brackets
20. Being Green
21. Just Us
22. Grieving for Dummies
23. Tkd
24. Then: Punching Things (Four Years Ago)
25. Now: Kiii-Yah!
26. We Are Not Party People
27. Rallyburger Rendezvous
28. Public Exercise in Loserdom (The First)
29. Bartender’s Choice
30. Slow-Motion Horror Show (For Your Eyes Only)
31. Swing and A … Miss
32. Non-Toxic Masculinity
33. Chauffeur Duty
34. Then: Midnight Lessons (One Month Ago)
35. Now: Under Covers
36. Dorkopterix
37. Sanders, Party of Three
38. Then: Crab Week (Seven Years Ago)
39. Now: A Side of Fruit
40. Borrowed Time
41. Bat Signal
42. God of Snacks
43. The First Rule of Grief Club
44. Aftermath
45. Pizza
46. Carousel
47. Then: Putting it Up (Four Years Ago)
48. Now: Tearing it Down
49. O Wise One
50. The Almighty Google
51. Is This a Date?
52. Eyewitness
53. This Might Be a Date
54. Salad-Making
55. Wingman
56. Gag Me
57. You-And-Me Rules
58. Home
59. A Space That’s Ours
60. Then: Blanket Fort (Five Years Ago)
61. Now: Living Room
62. We Gather Together
63. Club Toast
64. Private Party
65. Rip
66. Wake Up Laughing
67. Where the Glaciers Stopped
68. Top of the World
69. Poetry
70. Flying
71. A Religious Experience
72. We Interrupt this Program for a Parental Bulletin
73. The Last Straw
74. Then: Sheila’s Bedroom (Two Years Ago)
75. Now: Sheila’s Bedroom
76. You Can’t Do That on Television
77. Afterglow
78. A Simple Solution
79. Mr. Rincorn, Esquire
80. Definitely a Date, Probably
81. Sleepover (The First)
82. Here, We Will Resurrect You
83. The Power of Christ Compels You
84. Coffee Hour
85. Refuge
86. Hammock
87. Everything
88. Pause Button Violation
89. Courage
90. Courage?
91. Sunset, School Night
92. In Plain Sight
93. Then: Zucchini Lessons (Eighteen Months Ago)
94. Now: At the Ready
95. Tough Cookie
96. Celia
97. Dazed and Confused
98. Laser Tag Glory
99. The Many Faces of God
100. All Aboard
101. Relief
102. Courage, Redux
103. Appearances
104. Shouldn’t
105. Sleep Magic
106. Baggage
107. Enough
108. Strong
109. Rock-A-Bye
110. Haven
111. Alex the Attentive
112. Anniversary
113. At the Gate
114. Can You Not?
115. Worlds Collide
116. Halftime
117. Conflict with Alex
118. Circular Arguments
119. Sunday Night Football
120. Thick and Thin
121. Making Up with Alex
122. Guys, Interrupted
123. Public Exercise in Loserdom (The Second)
124. Public Exercise in Loserdom (Continued)
125. Private Exercise in Loserdom (Ongoing)
126. Secrets
127. Too Much
128. Heart of the Night
129. No Sex
130. Down for the Count
131. Abandoned
132. Retrieval
133. Apology
134. Heavy
135. I, Soceles
136. Weightless
137. Tipsy
138. Come with Me
139. Winter Camping
140. Firelight
141. Tent
142. Tension Tamer
143. Then: ’Tis the Season (One Year Ago)
144. Now: Flurry
145. Christmas Eve
146. Earth to Kermit
147. Pick a Lane
148. Shards
149. Hyperspace
150. I Just Wanna FLY
151. Emergency, with a Vengeance
152. Ride Like the Wind
153. Empty
154. Shake it Off
155. Caravan
156. Club Rules
157. Clipboard
158. Bedside
159. Prodigal
160. Bless Me, Father …
161. It’s Okay to Be Not Okay
162. Waterworks
163. Designated Visitor
164. Day 3
165. Waves
166. Ad Infinitum
167. On the Sly
168. Trust Fall
169. Enough
170. Not the Last Dream
171. Three Months Later
172. The Minus-One Club: Rules
173. Author’s Note
174. Works Cited
175. Acknowledgments
176. Also by Kekla Magoon
177. Praise for Kekla Magoon
178. About the Author
179. Copyright