A Field That Isn't Grass

Isaac Whitfield has been dreaming of the same girl since he was four years old. A field that isn't quite grass. A sky the color of a bruise. A barefoot girl in a yellow raincoat who tells him things no four-year-old should know, and who is there, without fail, every single night for twenty-five years.

He's never told anyone the truth: that he built his entire life around a person who doesn't exist.

Then it rains hard enough to send him into a bookshop he's never noticed, on a street he doesn'...