Unwritten TARA GILBOY JOLLY FISH PRESS Mendota Heights Minnesota
For Samantha Julie and Rita who always believed in me
Chapter 1 Always for as long as she could recall Gracie had the memory of fire Always It descended on her even now as she sat in her seventh-grade science class swooping in out of nowhere as she hunched over her textbook It wasn’t a true memory she’d never been in a fire after all but it felt real The images came in flashes the flicker of sparks dark spots that moved smokelike lurking in the corners Her skin burned hot and she felt flushed Story glimmers Mom had explained Glimpses of things that would’ve happened if we hadn’t escaped Bondoff It doesn’t matter what was written in that terrible book it
