After his older sister leaves home, the younger brother narrator walks along the water and traces the fractures in his family and his feelings for her. Dangerous friendship, loneliness, and family pain are rendered with a vivid young sensibility.

A boy's walk along the water quietly illuminates the pain of youth and family fracture.

A story that captures an afternoon in the life of a school-refusing child. In time spent apart from home and school, it reveals the gap between the child's inner life and the gaze of others.

The quiet of an afternoon away from school reflects a child's solitude and resistance.

A story about ritual and human relationships around the fantastic figure of a bird-person. Through a setting slightly removed from realism, it looks at community and the body.

A ritual around a bird-person reconsiders the boundaries of community and human form.