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Childhood Friends
When Bobby finds a box of old photographs in his mother’s things, one absence begins to trouble him.
He remembers the woods. The pond. The barn. The stormtroopers he and his best friend Chris buried beneath the trees with all the solemnity two boys could manage. He remembers nearly everything.
Everything except saying goodbye.
Decades later, Bobby returns to the childhood place he thought he had left behind—and finds Chris waiting there, still twelve years old, still carrying the shape of a truth Bobby was taught to forget.
As memory begins to reopen, the woods lead them back through buried promises, childhood rules, and the terrible day that divided one life from another. To bring Chris home, Bobby must face what happened at the water, what was stolen from both of them, and the grief that is easiest to survive only because it asks nothing of us.
A haunting supernatural novella about friendship, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to keep living.
He remembers the woods. The pond. The barn. The stormtroopers he and his best friend Chris buried beneath the trees with all the solemnity two boys could manage. He remembers nearly everything.
Everything except saying goodbye.
Decades later, Bobby returns to the childhood place he thought he had left behind—and finds Chris waiting there, still twelve years old, still carrying the shape of a truth Bobby was taught to forget.
As memory begins to reopen, the woods lead them back through buried promises, childhood rules, and the terrible day that divided one life from another. To bring Chris home, Bobby must face what happened at the water, what was stolen from both of them, and the grief that is easiest to survive only because it asks nothing of us.
A haunting supernatural novella about friendship, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to keep living.
279 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 17, 2026
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