Lonely Oak Chapter 16
There is 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 way. The fence surrounds a modest square of land, nestled in the corner outside of...
Lonely Oak Chapter 4
At the top of the stairs, Emeral took off her shoes and set them at the penultimate step. She shuffled across the carpet and laid claim to the rightmost cushion of the gray couch. Ket was already...
Lonely Oak Chapter 17
Panda--now recognized by the name after he spent the entire day yesterday fixing that mess--huffed with great effort as he trudged along outside. It was PE, which meant he was not having any fun at all. Worse, Ritzer had been absent for a couple days...
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,...
Lonely Oak Chapter 20
The transition from one subject to another was like the set changing for a play, except the lights were shining on all the prop-movers and scenery-changers. Thumps and thuds and metallic scraping signified books and supplies swapped from within the...
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...
Lonely Oak Chapter 55
Lyza sat across from her brother at the table. Beside them, their camping lantern illuminated a florescent-white glow that pierced the darkness, casting light across the table and the ground like they had taken the moon for themselves. Kval...
Lonely Oak Chapter 12
The bell rang. Children scurried to their seats, pretending they had been there the entire time. There was no order, no seating arrangement; friends sat with friends, enemies sat far away from enemies, and the cliques and...
Lonely Oak Chapter 82
Ket kept his hand as steady as he could. The block of wood in his left grip twitched and pushed with every stroke of the knife upon the opposite-facing surface. The block was fairly hard to hold still, as he had the edge of it against the middle of his...
Lonely Oak Chapter 39
The first thing Ket noticed was how thick the air was. As soon as he took his first breath he felt it not swelling in his lungs but saturating them; weighing his diaphragm and turning the exhalation into a laborious task. The sun was the second...
Raspberry Line Chapter 21
[WARNING: Although labeled as "clean" this chapter does contain activity between minors some may not find agreeable. It is possible to read most of the chapter and skip the activity, or you may choose not to read the chapter altogether. The event will...
Lonely Oak Chapter 107 - Mother's Day
"Nearing full dilation; delivery starting. Nurse," the doctor said with urgency. "I really think you should take the epidural." "I'm _fine!_" Barked the tigress on the gurney, "Don't _worry about it!_" "Sir, it's too late," one of the other nurses...