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People who walk slow irritate me. Call me impatient if you like, but I’m a realist; time is money, after all. I suppose my father taught me that, among a myriad other things. Not all of his lessons were so easily learned, but he also taught me how to watch. Nobody sees a teenager sitting […]
MoreLet this be real What’s your home like, Ainsley?” Eddie asked me one day when he was supposed to be doing his homework. I was on the floor next to the table, counting how many times I breathed in and then out. When Eddie did his homework, he didn’t pay attention to me, which was […]
MoreRide The healer’s watching him from the doorway, light streaming across her skin. She raises a long cigarette to her lips with thoughtful ease. “Don’t move, please,” she says in a voice too rough for her young appearance. “The medicine hasn’t started to work yet.” Nika doesn’t need her to tell him this. He groans, […]
MoreOne-Way Ben had slumped as low as his desk would allow him. It wasn’t that he was afraid of being called on, or that he was trying to convey an air of teenage indifference—he was simply more comfortable this way. His torso was long and thin, almost freakishly so, and it was only by sitting […]
MoreThe structure is intimidating to everyone who sets foot in it: eight terminals, 46 million people passing though the gates every year, incessant fears of a terrorist attack. Yet on the other end of the spectrum, JFK is glorified. It’s titanic complex encapsulates the entire globe. An intersection of multitudinous paths traversing internationally, the building […]
MoreA long, long time ago, back when the earth was flat and the heavens were a black void of nothingness, and the only form of life was humanity, there was a disagreement. The disagreement turned into a fight, and the fight turned into a war. Soon, all of humanity was engaged in this violent struggle […]
More“Tim, get up!” A familiar voice shouted at my face as someone tried to shake me awake. I tried turning away and lying on my other side. That’s when I realized I wasn’t in my warm, comfortable bed back home in New York, but rather on itchy, cool grass. “Ahh!” I cried out, sitting up […]
MoreIt was hard for a girl to enjoy the sunlight, no matter how good it felt, when she was being chased. This, strangely enough, was the only thing Val could think of. That and what an incredibly stupid idea it had been to wear high-heeled boots. The six men behind her were gaining and she […]
MoreAndrew sat excitedly in the flying ship on his way to the school, face pressed to the crystalline window. “Bertha,” he whispered, “Can you believe it? We’re going to a school in the sky!” Bertha, sitting beside him demurely, had her hands folded in her lap and continued to stare at the wooden floor. She […]
MoreThomas Graham was a boy who stumbled his way through life, having a peculiar affinity for doing exactly the wrong thing. He had his talent for wrongness ever since his birth, which was an excessively difficult one as he came out feet first. In his sunny California hometown, where everybody was tan, he was a […]
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