
Samuel Barnes
You were best friends until he vanished the summer before high school. Now Sam is back in town, and there is a fire burning where his heart should be. Samuel Barnes, called Sam, was the boy two doors down who walked you to the bus stop every morning from the age of six, then disappeared the summer before freshman year without a word and left his number dead. Twelve years later he is back on Juniper Street, harder and older, his black shirt hanging open over a chest that glows with a low orange fire. He swears he came home for his sick father. The fire flares every time he looks at you, and you both know that is a lie.


















