There was a change in the classroom that morning. Something made the room unfamiliar. As the children filed in and slid onto the seats of their desks, they saw the reason. A new boy was standing with ... [+]
There was nothing going to stop her. She’d known about the club for a while and had been wanting to join for so long. Today, she was going to do it. Walk in, sit down, and challenge the boys. ... [+]
I don’t have history with God.
He wasn’t someone I had funny stories with from when we were kids, He wasn’t someone I could reference in a best man speech, and He wasn’t someone I
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Jacobson pressed the pistol into the palm of her hand and wrapped her fingers around it, making his intentions clear. Ashley clenched the pistol in her fingers, mindful of the trigger and looked up ... [+]
His name was Roman and he was a knight. He wanted to find a cure for the princess, who had a rare illness. So he decided to search the world for one. The kingdom relied on him and didn't know if he ... [+]
Kyle couldn’t say why he walked into the Anglican church down the street.
It was a Sunday afternoon, the last weekend before he left Seattle for his senior year of college in California, and
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The family had one ritual that was somewhat normal. On the days that the step dad was off work they would all pile into the jeep and go exploring into the mountains. These trips were second on the ... [+]
I had just gotten home from work and was walking down the hallway of my apartment complex. As I approached my door I saw a pair of keys dangling from the lock. ‘Hmmm that’s strange.’ The doo ... [+]
There were exactly five clocks in the room where I couldn’t talk.
Three of them were placed on the numerous walls and around corners where I couldn’t see, but the last two were on the
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He was a soldier. He was confused and tired and homesick, or maybe lovesick, or maybe a cruel combination of the two. He made his way through the jungle, stumbling on the shards of broken sunlight ... [+]
Five foot two, eyes of blue, echoed in Tanya’s mind every time she thought of her mom dancing around the living room and singing. Gramma Judy, as the grandkids called her, had been blind for several ... [+]
A terrifying, deafening bellow filled the room.
Old gray trash cans had been overturned in the cramped locker room, and seniors on the football team were banging loudly on them with their cleats
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At the time it didn’t feel like courage, it felt like dark hell. Every step was hell. Hell, hell, hell. Only a couple months later did a friend tell her the Winston Churchill quotation: “If ... [+]
Jeremy, Jane, Tyler, Axel, and Rachel were sitting in last hour at Ridgefield Middle School. They were staring at the clock, waiting for the bell to ring. The group of friends has been planning this ... [+]
Jamie finally shut her eyes after a long day of appointments and surgery. She was beginning to regret becoming a surgeon after not being able to save Tommy, the little boy with a brain tumor. As she ... [+]
“What do you mean you’re afraid, Roberta? Just fill it out. The paper and ink are free, so get busy,” the young teacher, Miss Smythe, said handing the college application back to the nervous ... [+]
