Lonely Oak Chapter 33 - Meet Eeyore Shower
Lyza stared out into the darkness. The last orange lights of the city had disappeared some time ago and now the darkness was big and all over. It was everywhere, like she was in a submarine beneath the ocean. The thrum of the engine beneath her had...
Lonely Oak Chapter 8
_Twas Christmas morning and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for a mouse._ Well, actually, a rat. Rini had woken up extremely early, precisely seven...
Lonely Oak Chapter 6
Ket had been skating for all of three minutes on his own, outside of the beginner's circle. He forgot his teeth once, but he didn't fall; he managed to keep himself balanced and recovered back into skating-stride. In order to do...
Lonely Oak Chapter 29
"Nononono, hang on," Emeral said, pressing her hand up into the air, "that's totally wrong, you'll hurt your neck." "I'm doing exactly what you said!" Ket grumbled, his head and knees on the ground, situated in front of the couch cushions laid in a...
Raspberry Line Chapter 20
Emeral sat on her bed, tumbling the little red phone between her palms, and tumbling Ket's last, few little words in her mind. _I'll call your cell later..._ Back... front... ...
Lonely Oak Chapter 5
"Man this place got expensive," Kval muttered, fishing another twenty out of his wallet. The doe at the counter took it objectively, and worked the register for only a second, "four thirty-four is your...
Lonely Oak Chapter 19
Lyza didn't really wake up right away. She became conscious, but her mind was foggy and groggy and any other type of _-oggy_. She slipped in and out of a dream, but with every lapse over the line of here and there she forgot what she dreamt of. At...
Lonely Oak Chapter 7
Lyza slowly shut the door of her bedroom, leaving it open only a crack. Before she let go of the handle, she heard the footsteps near, and then turn right as her brother went to his room. Only after he settled did she allow the...
Lonely Oak Chapter 11
The world was noire. Pre-dawn light refracted across the clouds, as if the sky were a swatch of the deep ocean and the sun barely breached through the surface of the waters. Houses were without color nor feature, signs without...
Lonely Oak Chapter 57
_No...Don't..._ "Don't what?" _Go..._ "Don't go?" _Don't...go in..._ "In where?" _Stay out...water..._ "Water--the ocean?" _It...swallow..._ "Then I'll stay." _Wait._ "I'll wait." _Stop._ "I'll stop." _No..._ "Emmrnh--" ...
Lonely Oak Chapter 22
Shy William and Squeaky Kimberly waited nervously while Ms. Hupp's pen wrote a few last-minute things down on the paper. The class was hushed, staring at the nervous mouse and dalmatian at the center of the room, or at anything that caught their...
Lonely Oak Chapter 10
The petting zoo smelled unappealing, but if you could get past that it was sort of fun. There were mostly goats, walking around with little bells tied to their necks. Once in a while they would shake their heads and make the...