I don't really have much to say about "The Vespertine". It was not outstanding, but it was not terrible, it fell somewhere in an average middle. For positives, I would point to:- the quick story: the author had a small idea and didn't drag it out, which I appreciate.- the interesting "dark side" ...
Fourteen-year-old Iris and her friend Collette decide to do something different this summer in their teeny tiny town: speak to the dead. At first, Iris pretends to just go along with Collette hearing things and seeing things. Until one night, Iris really does hear something: a boy's voice. Over t...
Julian’s watch ticked away, and she turned to peer at its face again. She laughed—delighted, dumbstruck—then told him, “I’ve never kept it up this long before.” Julian sprawled as comfortably as he could on sand and stone, and watched Kate as if she were an exhibit. The crested Californian girl-m...
The sky was still dark, just beginning to glow in the east. Cool without my shawl, I wrapped my arms around myself and followed her to the back. We hadn't discussed my gift since I'd proved it the day before; I wondered if she'd blocked it out entirely.Especially when she produced two buckets I'd...
My heart beat faster and faster. Though Daddy’d never said it was against the rules to have friends over while he was gone, I figured I’d be better off if I didn’t give him the chance. He kept dawdling and I didn’t know why until he stopped at the door and asked, “Are you going to be all right al...
on a generational spaceship. The solar lamp in the roof of the Feeder Level goes dark, but it’s no more night than the clouds painted on the metal ceiling are sky. Nevertheless, everything important that has ever happened to me has happened at “night.” For once, Harley isn’t painting. I lean ov...
"What's the matter with you?" "I like them!" Reaching for the printer's book, I longed to look at the handsome calling card again, the one with a silhouette of a hawk. It seemed all the cards I preferred were meant for men—the ones with bold strokes and dark letters. Nostrils flaring, Zora presen...