Invisible Fences

Do you see the point of the story, Nathan? We all cut parts of ourselves away, but we never lose them. Things stay with us-souvenirs with memories attached. We can't always choose what to keep, what to throw away.

Nathan's parents devised cautionary tales for him and his sister-gruesome stories about predatory cars racing along the "Big Street" at one end of their neighborhood, or dope fiends lurking in the woods behind their house and ready to plunge hypodermics into the skin of foolish you...