Raspberry Line Chapter 18
Dark. Ket liked the dark. Not in a creepy, morbid way of course. It was relaxing, cleansing, and quiet. He had never really been afraid of the dark, although sometimes it did make him feel a bit anxious. He stayed away from...
Raspberry Line Chapter 17
Six in eve, and already night was beginning to shove its cold, dark nose in the sky. The tinted windows of the library betrayed the actual daylight left, making time within feel thirty minutes forward. Ket sat at his usual...
Raspberry Line Chapter 16
Emeral swirled the water with her finger. It was quiet now. The otter-family and friends had left a few minutes ago, and it was just her and Ket now. She was sort of surprised at his uncharacteristic action, getting them into...
Raspberry Line Chapter 15
"Coming!" Mrs. Brillian called, and let the pen in her hand drop as she stood from the kitchen table. She huffed as her knee banged against the chair, and gingerly limped toward the door. She opened its lock and turned its knob,...
Raspberry Line Chapter 13 - Framed
Emeral nearly collapsed as she finally made it to Lyza's house ten minutes later--a trip that normally would take twenty even at a brisk pace. After a brief recovery, she knocked furiously at the door. When it pried open the small rabbit stood in her...
Raspberry Line Chapter 12 - Cross-Walk Talk
Emeral ran back in from recess, eager to get to the sanctity of the classroom. Ritzer was sort of out for her blood, but was kept at bay by Rini and her band. It was like a clash of the titans: Ritzer wouldn't dare do anything to Rini since she and...
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 10 - Drift Like A Leaf
"Get...started?" He repeated back. "Yeah," she took his wrist and led him to an area that wasn't so populated by dirt or trash. "My instructor says I'm not supposed to do this, but..." She swung her arms and clapped them together, like she was warming...
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...
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...
Raspberry Line Chapter 7 - The Angry Tiger's Den
The white tigress's heart skipped a beat as she saw the street sign: _Raspberry Line_ and _Almond Field Road_. She looked down at the little sketch of the map she drew on a piece of notebook paper the night before. From here she turned right, and put...
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...