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Title Page
Contents
Disclaimer/Content Warnings
Dedication
Map
1. The Shadow (Or, How two boys discovered magic)
Nine Years Later
2. The Before (Or, How things are never just once upon a time)
3. The Man (Or, How one girl found the devil)
4. The Journey (Or, How life is never fair to you most of all)
5. The School (Or, How you’ve always felt older than everyone, older than time, and in every crowd you look for someone like you)
6. The Beginning (Or, How a boy prepares for a battle he can’t win)
7. The Fight (Or, How dangerous first impressions are in the right hands of the wrong people)
8. The Touch (Or, How each finger is both the arrow and the apple)
9. The Missing (Or, How you sometimes think death is just God sweeping out the bed crumbs so he can sleep)
10. The Bridge (Or, How magic is the only thing that matters anymore)
11. The Dinner (Or, How being evil is easy)
12. The Forest (Or, How many steps you can count between you and the person you want to be)
13. The Drawing (Or, How no one believes you until it’s too late)
14. The Regret (Or, How a moment comes and goes and leaves you behind forever)
15. The Duel (Or, How deeply a sword has to cut for it to be dangerous)
16. The Word (Or, How five letters can ruin it all)
17. The Moonlight (Or, How they’ll try to steal your light, all the good parts of you, and you will not let them.)
18. The Candle (Or, How you want to run like a river, riotously, uncaring whether you’re clean or dirty)
19. The Mother (Or, How you learned to build your armor piece by piece as you were fleeing)
20. The Interrogation (Or, How being young feels like being a ghost)
21. The Blood Promise (Or, How everything means nothing to some people)
22. The Nightrose (Or, How a girl breaks the devil)
23. The Story (Or, How you waited so long, alone, for no one to save you)
24. The Picnic (Or, How being a person is the hardest thing you’ll ever do)
25. The Wondering (Or, How a laugh can chew you up and spit you out again)
26. The Whisper (Or, How impossible is a word we invented to spare ourselves)
27. The Church (Or, How they love to bless you with their scorn)
28. The Deer (Or, How many times you can tolerate being called prey)
29. The Pool (Or, How the pain will always be ready for you to come home)
30. The Camera (Or, How many medals you should have by now for still being here)
31. The Family (Or, how to be satisfied with just the trees, with just the rain)
32. The Fairy Ring (Or, How none of it feels real when it’s happening, because only in the quiet dark does reality hurt)
33. The Dream (Or, How ‘probably’ has never been good enough for you)
34. The Exam (Or, How they like to say getting over yourself is easier with booze)
35. The Shadows (Or, How even as you sleep, yours gets longer)
36. The End (Or, How many times you have to die to move on)
37. The Teeth (Or, How words are the claws of the mouth, and some people never bite)
To Be Continued
Acknowledgments
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