Sour Candy

“He didn't know the boy. He had never seen him before in his life.”

Phil just wanted some candy in a grocery store. Now his whole life is a lie he cannot escape.

“Daddy, can we go now?”

The way Adam just appears in the backseat is terrifying. It makes you realize how quickly we accept a new reality when we are scared.

Phil loses his girlfriend and his dog so fast. Grief feels exactly like that. Everything you love just vanishes while you watch.

The silver coins in the eyes still haunt me. It shows how something precious can become something grotesque in the wrong hands.