Sweet July Moon

Dirt roads.

Maybe a few of them were paved closer to the highway, but mostly they were all dirt roads.

I knew every inch of this town, I knew the first and last names of everyone who had ever lived here. That was the easy part though, because in a town like ours, nobody came in and nobody went out. The worst part was, your whole life is set in stone before you're even born. You'll go to school, church three times a week, and once you graduate you'll get married to whoever you were naive enough to fall for in the eighth grade.

The funny thing about it was that I never wanted out, I liked how comfortable I was knowing exactly what life had in store for me.

Until last summer.