“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.”

― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

Charlie had been a sick child. She never really got to go out and play as much as she wanted, and her parents fretted over everything she did. Now, as an adult, she rarely left the house and worked from home. Her only friends were online; she hadn’t even seen most of their faces. When small items from her home start to go missing, she worries that she’s starting to lose her mind. Soon, however, she realizes that everything that has disappeared has now reappeared in a line leading to the woods behind her home. Normally, she wouldn’t have bothered to clean it all up, but the last thing to go missing were her car keys.

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