( Cockiness is thinking you're the weirdest thing out there. )

"Kansas is boring," Sammie murmurs to herself, sitting on a dock near a lake and kicking her feet to drag her toes in the water. Daddy's over in the farmhouse, getting new information, Momma and Mom are somewhere else. Sammie knows that when those looks pass between her mothers, she should probably go away real quick.

But Kansas is boring and ( Read more... )

In Arkansas, when Sammie was four, they stopped at a park. Daddy wanted to give the car a wash, Momma wanted to pour over some of the local news, Sammie wanted to go on the swings and Mom, not for the first time, was in just the sort of mood to play ( Read more... )

Sammie's family isn't like a lot of other families, even in the Shatter world. They all know it. But since it doesn't seem to bother her parents, Sammie doesn't let it bother her ( Read more... )