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
As if there weren’t enough problems on his plate, Mondriel had to go and stumble upon the biggest secret ever, didn’t he? The kind of secret that would turn the natural order of things on its head if it was leaked to a wider public.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
As I turned the page the edge cut my finger
- Length: 2 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
These things do not happen to the dead, she told herself.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
There was always news, Antonio thought, as the announcer’s name started to boom out, and he was glad for that.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
His mother once told him a story about how his granddaddy nearly gave her away.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
There is a bleached skeleton that holds no marrow
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
She looked at me with wonderful blue eyes.
- Length: 1 page
- 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
Ideas. That was what it was all about and all it was about
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
I am looking at something I thought mine alone...a beech leaf, brittle and brown now.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
"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