Five years and Nolan had always been there. Five years and Dane always appeared nervous, as if it were a first date.
- Length: 22 pages
- Age Rating: U
Kevin's dad is convinced that there's one weed spawning all the others in his garden and he just needs to find it.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: U
For Arabella, Christmas gifts were not judged on how expensive they were. They were an insight into how well I really knew and understood her.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
We kept white feathers before exams or doctors’ appointments. Black feathers, of course, were warnings. We knew these to be facts, as empirical as science.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Ten words, one tale. Ten tales, a hundred words.
- Length: 1 page
- Age Rating: U
“It’s always the same to begin with,” I said. “I’m on the beach. The sand is hot, the sun is bearing down. It makes the sand look white, like snow.”
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: 15
There is a bleached skeleton that holds no marrow
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
He sat on the bench. Their bench. And watched the birds. And remembered.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Truda paused at the gate and tried to calm her racing heart.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker next door were targeted the following weekend...
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: U
"I love you, Martha, but you break things. You're breaking us."
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
But in my head that summer before we moved into the town was yellow and purple and red and supremely happy
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
You have to play the cards you're dealt
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: U
"That tree," he says. "It's looking at me."
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: U
How many people who turn on a light understand the generation of electricity?
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 15