Seven. That’s how old I was when a science book single-handedly ruined my life…

Warnings: predatory ocean creatures and earth-shattering realizations

I’m not sure what my mother-in-law had in mind, exactly. But now I’m starting to wonder…

Warnings: murder, divorce, mother-in-laws, assassins/hitmen, and a Princess Bride quote. I mean, what did you expect?

Once a year in the storm-sprinkled, pre-heating oven that is Texas spring, piles of bluebonnets sprout. “I’ve heard they’re beautiful! Fields and fields of them,” my mother had said. In the heart of the city, there aren’t fields and fields of anything, much less delicate blue wildflowers. I mean, there is LoveFIELD, but that’s an airport.