Against the backdrop of Los Angeles, Benji Russells is a seventeen-year-old addict convinced of the ideas that there is nothing left in her worth saving and her older brother, TJ, should stop trying already. She knows how her story ends, after all: in the ocean, high. There's nothing he or anyone can do to change that. Nothing. She's right. Mostly.

At the Conolly Institute for the Performing Arts, seven opera students fight for the chance to prove themselves. Leah Woodley, an often-overlooked senior student, is determined to land a lead role this year and demand the attention of the faculty. The problem? Everyone else has the same goal. Since this is their third and final year at the school, stakes are already high, but when the star performer Hannah Frazier disappears without a trace midway through the year, tensions are drawn taut. When her body is discovered at the bottom of Conolly's highest tower, and the circumstances preceding the tragedy come to light, two things become clear: Hannah's death wasn't an accident, and each of the six remaining students has a terrible secret.

a collection of flash fiction + poetry.