Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...’s Reviews > Sweetwater > Status Update

“ The stars burned bright in the cold. They felt close enough that Grady imagined he could reach up and snag them with his fingertips. Catch one, and the rest would follow like a string of Chinese lanterns.”

Writing like this makes me feel like I’ve been living on saltines and was just reminded of what Brie tastes like. 🧀😍

” His gaze followed the tracks left by the wagons, year in and year out. He wondered how long it would take for the wind to smooth the tracks clean when the wagons stopped coming because of the railroad.”

They’re still there…. Carved into the face of Colorado and Texas and Wyoming so deep you can practically hear the wagons rumbling through them like prairie ghosts.

Elijah carried them inside, his gaze drifting again to the bruises on his wrists. He wanted not to see them, not to feel them. He wanted them to go away, so he didn’t have to think about how his shame and hurt was written on his skin.

No.

But Crane hadn’t listened. It surprised him a little that it felt like a betrayal.

He really was simple after all.”




This kid is breaking my heart.

Grady liked to think that maybe Elijah was thinking of him too. That was more than Grady had ever had with anyone. They’d hardly spoken, hardly touched, but there was something. It was fragile and ephemeral. It was fireflies.

Gah, Lisa Henry… the writing!

“I finish my book tonight and I can buy another one tomorrow before we head back,” Matt said.
Cody rolled his eyes. “Hell, Matty, we’re surrounded by women who’ll suck you off for a half dollar and you want to read a book?”

Matt knows where rhe real fun is at! A true bookworm ala 1870 😆