[My NaNoWriMo piece] Noah Parker was the daughter of two ridiculously famous ice skaters. Now she's living in a group home with her older brother. The tragedy has created a wedge between herself and her brother, and most of the time she feels totally alone. Except when she's skating. It's then that she feels her parents most. The only problem is the triple axel. She used to be able to land it beautifully. It used to be perfect. But now she's overthinking it, stressing over it. Until a boy comes along that might be able to glue back the pieces of her life, and cheer her on as she tries to land that triple axel time and time again.

"Ever played dominoes? Personally I'm no good at it. I have no patience whatsoever. But let's say you set up like fifty dominoes. If someone came along after you'd knocked them all over, they probably wouldn't be able to see the first domino if they were standing near the last domino. They'd have to backtrack to find the domino that started it all. The one that began the chain reaction. It happens in life just like that. One day, you'll find yourself somewhere looking down at a pile of knocked over dominoes. And you have to backtrack in your mind to find that first domino-that first moment that changed everything. You didn't know that day would change your life at the time-it might've seemed completely normal. But looking back on it, it's unmistakable. Looking back on my life so far, I can safely say that September 9th was my first domino."