Exhaustion was setting in, and she couldn’t stop thinking about that baby deer. Stumbling on the front step, she felt dizzy again and knew she needed to eat something. So she chased a couple of saltines with some flat ginger ale, then curled up in h...
The next week and a half passed by quickly, and I was just getting used to having the sling on when it was time to take it off. Caspian went with me to the doctor’s office, but it was when we got home that the real surprise of the day came. Cacey and Uri were waiting there for us, standing by a c...
Climbing out of bed, I pull on my red silk robe and reach for my scarf. But instead of wrapping it around my neck, I sit and stare at it. Pondering Maddy’s reaction to my scars—how she now knows the secret I have kept for so many years. Gathering the scarf, I walk over to the looking glass. There...
—“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” While waiting for Ben at our next tutoring session, I was practically vibrating with energy. Things were going so well with Caspian, and Mom and Dad were being cool too. And if sometimes, late at night in bed, I questioned whether or not I truly was insane, I told m...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" I walked back and forth between the front door and the stairs, fixated on the large grandfather clock nearby as time slowly ticked away second by second. Tuesday evening had finally arrived, and I was a bundle of nerves. Mom and Dad had just le...