A series of short (and long) vignettes that explore what happened, could have happened, or hasn't yet happened to your favorite characters from You Must Remember This, one that brings us closer to the most important question of all: how to be a good person. CW: dark psychological themes, sexual harassment, non-graphic character death, non-graphic attempted suicide

Seven years after Henry has graduated from East Horizon Academy, he suddenly runs into Pe during the holiday season. She is now a single mother in a convoluted relationship with her son's father. Will the former lovers be able to reignite an old flame, or is the spark between them gone?

Track team members Kyle and Yuki are best friends, but when Kyle discovers that Yuki has been keeping a secret from him, their relationship gets twisted and turned upside down... On the other hand, model student Pe has been in a relationship with her partner Henry for a few years. When one of her closest friends, Adrijan, confesses his feelings to her... what happens next?

A misguidedly idealistic high school student founds a club to teach his classmates philosophy; when it becomes a cult, he must change course before the whole school drinks the Kool-Aid. Frank can think of no better way to prove his classmates have no moral compass than to write a manifesto satirically arguing for the virtues of selfishness; when this attempt at shining a light on his classmates' behavior is taken at face value, he creates a club to spread his teachings, hoping his ironies will be more obvious on a grander scale. The authoritarian rule of law he establishes meets little resistance from his club members, even as he wonders privately when they'll have enough and choose a more virtuous path. While Frank earnestly seeks to help his classmates, his methodology proves misguided in practice, and Frank must find where to draw the line before he permanently ruins his beloved high school. But then again, being a cult leader is too much fun to pass up... You Must Remember This adapts the foundation of Catch-22 in a high school setting, applying the same notion of dystopian bureaucracy to lampoon Silicon Valley's competitive spirit and, in these politically charged times, comment on the fragility of our own democracy. CW: minor character death (non-graphic), dark psychological themes (e.g. gaslighting), authoritarian regimes (including references to communism and Nazism) "Amazing, terrible, bourgeois horror" "At first I thought the story was about silicone implants" "I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves the classic American English course reading list or just wants to read something that will make them think."

In which the snowman Pete and his kids build is not quite ordinary.

one awkward teen gal, one mexican painter with a unibrow, and one boy who likes to take pictures of chalk. strangeness ensues.

A series of one shots that don't close.

Remi Welch, aspiring writer. Harper O'Connor, trying to save a failing business. Mel's, a dirty diner in New York.

❝do you think that we'll ever become stars?❞ © crewneck 2014 sept. 24, 2014 - poetry #84 / romance #573

One summer, five kids: a fragile dreamer, a moody pessimist, an aggressive feminist, a closet homosexual, and a modern-day aristocrat. © crewneck sept. 24, 2014 - adventure #120 nov. 30, 2014 - teen fiction #334