Seventeen-year-old Kia barely survived her parents’ divorce several years ago. Now her mom is in the hospital battling cancer and Kia is stuck with her workaholic father, leaving her searching for an escape from the everyday horrors of her life. She finds this escape with a group of people acting...
School was school, Dad was Dad. Coach Michelson was the tiniest bit nicer to him. That was the only thing that had changed. Molly was absent the day he returned, and although he didn’t have to face her after his ridiculous display on the field, he missed having her to talk to. After school, Tim s...
THE LARGE dragon begged Molly. “Come admire my hoard for a while and let me admire you.” “I’ve told you before, you great dolt,” Molly snapped. “My name isn’t Princess, and I’m not responding to any remarks including that loathsome title.” She sat with her back to the huge beast, huddled in a cor...
He was holding a little head in his hands. It looked as if it might have once belonged to some kind of elf or sprite. As far as he could make out, its face, its ears, and its hair all would have blended easily into the woods, as if it were designed to be camouflaged. But the little head had been ...
COULDN’T he make a move without being threatened? Was everyone in Faerie out to get him? This place seemed even more dangerous than his own world, where all those magic practitioners wanted to kill him. That, at least, would be a simple fate. Here, who knew what could happen to him? Snout wanted ...
He had no destination in mind, except maybe oblivion. Just run right into nothingness, to a place where he was no one, where he could start over, where Molly wasn’t gone, where he didn’t disappoint his dad or make people angry. Run and run and run till his brain emptied out. His breath came hard,...
Junkin Buckley muttered as he crashed through the dense shrubbery of the forest. “Where do they get off? Sending me away like I was rubbish. Yesterday’s fish and chips.” He shrugged. “No matter. Things will be different soon enough!” Thinking about the future lifted his mood. Instead of crashing ...