The Bright Years

“I was the one who was supposed to be watching.”

Lydia carries so much guilt over her sister. It shows how one childhood moment can define twenty years of your life.

“Grief is a living thing.”

The memory of a missing person never stays still. It grows and changes right along with the family left behind.

Small towns have a way of keeping secrets until they become part of the soil. Everyone knows something but nobody says the whole truth.

“The trees don't tell what they've seen.”

The woods behind the house felt like a character themselves. They were beautiful but held a darkness that never quite went away.