Contents

Part One

Chapter 1
CECIL STREET WAS FEELING some kind of way in 1969.

Chapter 2
NEET HAD SLIPPED in and made it upstairs un-detected by…

Chapter 3
JOE WOKE WITH his horn on his mind though he…

Chapter 4
LOUISE PAUSED AS she rushed through the living room. Thought…

Chapter 5
THE BLACKNESS STARING Deucie in the face told her that…

Chapter 6
THAT MONDAY LOUISE had her first tooth pulled. A doctor…

Chapter 7
THEY HEADED STRAIGHT to Miss BB’s Saturday-morning house, called such…

Chapter 8
SHAY DIDN’T KNOW how she ended up in Miss Clara’s…

Part Two

Chapter 9
DEUCIE HAD BEEN affected by all the commotion in the…

Chapter 10
LOUISE BAKED THE cake for Neet’s homecoming just like she’d…

Chapter 11
ALBERTA WAS IN Neet’s room when the doorbell rang. She…

Chapter 12
NEET HAD BEEN home for almost two weeks and she…

Chapter 13
CECIL STREET WAS trying to come back to itself, trying…

Chapter 14
IT WAS FRIDAY morning and Cecil Street was setting up…

Chapter 15
ALBERTA WAS SITTING on her back steps. The sounds of…

Chapter 16
EVENING WAS FALLING over Cecil Street and the excitement was…

Chapter 17
IT WAS WARM in here since the windows were closed…

Chapter 18
NEET SAT STRAIGHT up when she heard the boom boom…

Chapter 19
THE FIREWORKS HAD ended. Though the thunderclaps of color generally…

Chapter 20
TLBERTA LEFT CECIL STREET that block-party night. The decent thing…


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