Raspberry Line Chapter 11 - Dodge, Distract, Disorient, Deceive, And Destroy
It was agonizing waiting for Monday, but then when it finally arrived Emeral almost didn't want to go to school. She'd thought very deeply about what she could have done to make Ket practically run away from her. The only answer she could come up with...
Raspberry Line Chapter 5 - Get To Know: Arkethius Rachaun
Outside, it was raining a little. A storm had picked up from a cool front coming through. It was a nice change from the hot days. The soft drumming of the raindrops against the gutters, a random and hypnotizing pattern, couldn't quell Emeral's mind as...
Everything or Nothing Chapter 16- Pale
"Do you actually believe that this boy knows something about that base?" Jorek asked. They were sitting in a small room inside the interrogation room, the large glass window giving a good view on the persons inside it. The boy had awoken a few hours...
Lonely Oak Chapter 90
The tiger walked toward the counselor's area. Past the library, into the first-grade hallway. He had not been to this area... well, not since first grade, of course. It was decorated with pale blue bricks, which actually looked freshly coated. When he...
Raspberry Line Chapter 6 - hTife
Emeral waded through the crowd, as if through a murky swamp of reeds, kelp and driftwood. Why teachers had them line up at the door was a mystery to her, because it all ended up as a boiling race to eat food that probably needed to be shielded behind...
Lonely Oak Chapter 95 - Broken Wisdom
Nachos. One of the few lunch items that many kids could actually stand. After all, it was simple and easy. The nacho chips tasted okay, even if they were a little stale sometimes. The cheese was probably not healthy. But it was so runny and gooey, and...
Raspberry Line Chapter 9 - Of Grapes, Apples, And Potatoes
Ket sat in the library, book propped open. He wasn't really reading it anymore, just pretending now. He liked the library, which many affectionately called The Mold-Farm. It was quiet, isolated, and always the same temperature year-round. No one...
Lonely Oak Chapter 126 - The Meadows
There was once a place at Lonely Oak Elementary, in the school's courtyard, different from any other place in the world. There is an iron fence, that has no gate; just an open mouth. The fence surrounds a modest square of land, nestled in the corner...
Raspberry Line Chapter 8 - Medicine For The Soul
"Hold still!" The boy struggled, trying everything he could to get away; shifting his weight, pulling, pushing, jerking. Nothing worked. He was a head taller than the girl and yet nothing worked. "Stop struggling," She huffed, squeezing her right arm...
Lonely Oak Chapter 116 - Meeting Of The Minds
The soft tic and tock of the clock counted the seconds within the small room. Beyond the frosted plastic _shoji_, the soft tinkling of wind-chimes broke up the motronomic march of the red hand. Blurry, mottled shadows swayed back and forth across the...
Lonely Oak Chapter 94 - Bubble'n'Squeak
The day was humid. Since P.E., clouds had shrouded the skies and now the sun was hidden behind a gray, cumulonimbus monolith. Thankfully, now and again, a gentle breeze stirred the air. But that was a luxury, up in the Slide Tower. Emeral looked out...
Everything or Nothing Chapter 10-Payback time
Chackling like a rooster high on nitrous oxide,syringe in one scaly hand he turned his sharp reptilian gaze onto the defenseless young boy.