Root: Part I, Chapter 7

After a stern lecture from her father, Hasta learns that she may not be the only one who can make strange things happen, and the secret circle widens by one.

For more on this project, please see “This Year a Serial Takes Root.”

7.0 Hasta

By the time they reached her block, Hasta felt like a cell phone on vibrate, the way the back of her neck wouldn’t stop prickling. Her family’s corner house, with its many unexpected projections and overhangs, gave the impression of a much larger structure that had gradually s…