At ten o’clock the principal called the assembly and Mary herded her class like goslings to the auditorium. Settling all the students into the auditorium ate nearly half an hour and then Mary and the other teachers assumed their monitoring positions around the perimeter of...
The voice came from far away. Mary realized the bustling activity focused around her but she hovered distant from it. Her eyes fixed on the door across from the foot of her bed which for her appeared to be down a long tunnel. People in blue scrubs rushed in and out. Their ...
The formerly white aluminum siding desperately needed a wash. No fence marked the property line, so the expanse of grass in the backyard, which grew tall enough to catch the bottom of his pants legs, drifted off into the grassy meadow where he and Mary were just an hour or so ago. He could see th...