Sunbound
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  • Reads 71,654
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  • Parts 25
  • Time 4h 31m
Ongoing, First published Jun 14, 2014
"She had this thought. Not about choking hazards on children's toys or fatal car crashes, but a thought about how Skylar was not entirely a person. He was more like an ocean with violent currents; one of the seven seas with skin and bones and teeth. He was waterlogged with despair; bad weather with the premonition of a hurricane. And she thought that she finally understood why they named hurricanes after humans. But she lived in Arizona all of her life; she had never seen a hurricane, and she found that fitting because she had never seen anything like him either."

He was as tragic as a hurricane. She was as volatile as a tornado. 

But when Skylar and Scout collided, they were bound for the sun.



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