She struggled to be a good sister. She forced herself to send at least one text every two days. To be there for him.

"You're not trying to be there for him. You just want him to think that you're a good sis."

Her boyfriend, or whatever he actually was, could see...

It's been raining all night, my girlfriend said this morning.

When I went into the bathroom and I looked out the window I thought about how this is how  snowmageddon would arrive. The temperature would fall below freezing tonight and then it would all turn into snow.

Being snowed in is a...