He stood outside the castle, looking in. That little fence was all that separated him from the world of imagination....

Billy was steadfastly unimpressed. "Can we go home now?" he asked. "But, Billy, don't you want to see the top of th...

My throat ached from a barrage of overpriced, fried abuse. My voice was hoarse, having spent most of the day screamin...

They were trapped for seven days. Faced with a myriad of uncertainties, this much Antonius knew to be true. The pangs...

They were trapped for seven days. Aleena tried to hold back the tears as it had been seven days since she had seen th...

They were trapped for seven days. And all he could think about was how stupid and incompetent everyone was. Oh, he c...

She opened the envelope and screamed. "I got in!" she told her parents, hopping excitedly as she held out the accepta...

She opened the envelope and screamed. This was not the day to be squeamish. This was the day her daughter would be ...

She opened the envelope and screamed. She could not believe him, she simply could not believe that he was still persu...

Our words are what separate us from animals. We have the ability to communicate our thoughts and feelings clearly to ...

jane and safura were sworn enimies.when they found out about the life stone they were astonished . they both wanted e...

Safura was stalking her victim. Through the cobbled streets, around the market barrows, past the gates of the jail an...

I was scared. I could see another perspective of myself. Did I want this to happen? No. But, did it happen for a reas...

It had been a long day the escape from the crowd into the woods had worn Jessica out completely she was tired. leavin...

I was nothing like his mother. Didn't look like her, act like her yet he told his friends we had to split up because ...

Daring to be noticed for the first time in her life, she pushed her chair back and stood up. "Everybody take a good l...

It was the one. He had to be. There was no one else in the room who dared to stand against the flow of society. It ha...

Daring to be noticed for the first timein her life, she pushed her chair back and stood up. The room fell silent as s...

There was a party in the upstairs of the building. On the roof. It was my building too. I had lived there for many ye...

She hadn't felt like this since she was six years old. Once, at a circus, she had begged her father for a balloon, sw...

The power of flight could be transferred. When Marisa first discovered this, she was thrilled. As far as she knew, o...

The kids huddled around the tiny bundt cake, sipping juice from their plastic cups. A lone candle burned at the cen...

We have been in the bunker for weeks now sharing a room with me and my five brothers. Its hard to imagine our life be...

If I were a scientist I would invent a drug, which could bring me back to all of the feelings I was able to experienc...

Sitting at a desk with pen in hand. "It's us against the world." "Watch out, America." The circle of faces tight...

I was an optimist. I thought that I, like Hemingway, could weave my influence between countries, live in the welcomin...

He couldn't see through the rain. The rain covered everything in sight, like a thick veil of mosquito netting had bee...

"You been seeing the television?" the Guard said. Huxton squinted, through the bleariness of sleep into the bleach o...

With fifteen minutes until the start of the hearing, a bagel stop was inadvisable. The queue for the espresso machin...

I wanted to give him everything I had. He was my love, and I knew, at long last, what I wanted out of life. I wanted...