Peace. It can come in any form. It could be peace from war. It could be peace in a family.
Or for one man, peace from a haunting past.
*Published in The Star's stuff@school pullout dated September 29, 2014.*
It began with a toothpick. Funnies Caretto picked his teeth after leaving a restaurant on East 54th and chucked the toothpick into the street. Rain carried it down the gutter and into the sewers, and the swirls and eddies of New York waters made the toothpick jam into a crack on the side of the canal. About a third of the toothpick was stuck tight in the minute crevice; that bit of wood wasn't going anywhere.
You are about to enter the worlds of a handful of not quite normal teenagers as they go about their lives in total and utter randomness, with amazing adventures along the way- all made up as we go along.