Cracks and Rings and Ganders

Fiction

They’ve been cruel to newcomers before, but never like this

Riley flipped a french fry at a seagull who caught it, dropped it, retrieved it from a puddle in the parking lot of the Whitecap and flew off.

You’re not innocent, Riley, she scolded herself, you are part of it. No they: we.

Riley had wondered about it before, the way a small group of people from …