CONTENTS

Preface

Part I: The End

Little Lunatics

Barnacle Siblings

Whatever He’s Holding Inside

Daddy Always Lives

A Bear Is Coming at You

This Person You Love Will Take Your Life

And Then They’ll Pray

I Can’t Live Here Anymore

Systems, Accidents, Incidents

And What Happens Next

Part II: The Beginning

Penance

Watching Violence in a Fishbowl

The Fatal Peril Club

Clustered at the Top

The Haunting Presence of the Inexplicable

A Superhero’s Kneecaps

In the Season of Unmitigated Discovery

Those Who Break

Part III: The Middle

In the Cracks

Shelter in Place

In the Fire

Grace Under Pressure

Chambering a Round

Free Free

Shadow Bodies

Author’s Note

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

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