Sunbeams trickled in through the frosted glass windows, and the lab equipment made twisted shadows on the floor. I didn’t dare turn on the lights. I didn’t want to scare Swannie off if she was here. I was halfway through the main lab when Swannie’s door opened and I saw a huge backlit Afro before...
Pretty soon, I was huffing and puffing and tripping over my own feet. The yeti finally realized that his stride was about three times bigger than mine. He looked down at me with a sheepish expression and released my arm. He wasn’t even out of breath, but I couldn’t stop gasping as I took in our s...
My legs shook after just a few hockey stops in my isolated corner. I’d earned those shakes fair and square after pushing so hard at tryouts, but I still wanted to beat my thighs with my fists and tell them to get with the program already. But it wouldn’t do me any good to drive myself into uncons...
So I walked into the hospital without looking back. As I emerged from the elevator onto Bryan’s floor, I heard a loud buzzing from the nurses’ station. “Looks like that darned sensor on bed twelve slipped off again,” someone was saying. “Do we have another one somewhere?” ...