Aisha Saeed

For Alex

These things always look easier in movies

A doodle of a girl laying on her back with long hair and doodling

Mason Buttle

Tamara Ireland Stone

For those who have saved me Mary, Penelope, Matilda, and Hazel

He dives flat on his front onto the big couch and disappears into the cushions

A group of people on a boat

Norah Levy

Svetlana Chmakova

JuYoun, Patrick, Ruth, Melissa, NaRae, Bon, Yen Press Production Crew

A tome of forgotten knowledge and a book of things never known

Helmet with two Xs for eyes

Teddy Youngblood

Watt Key

For Ken Sparks, with thanks to my mother-in-law, Nancy Hurst-Brown, a British evacuee whose childhood letters home led me to this story

Hung out in a stinky bathroom to hide from other kids

A tree with a ladder next to it with a boy and a dog looking at it

Allie Navarro

Ethan M. Aldridge

For Jack, Joe, and Charlie

Colorful beanbag chairs and how the light streamed in through the tall windows

Top of a building with many chimneys and a person with a large character next to them

Nan Sparrow