Lonely Oak Chapter 85
"Hey Becky, will you be honest?" "About what?" "You're coming along cuz you have a crush on me, right?" "Ah! You little _twerp_--" "Ow!--" "Get over yourself." Up front, the mother poodle just let out a weary sigh, as if longing for a glass of...
Lonely Oak Chapter 84
Lyza sat at the picnic tables, just outside the school's courtyard. While recess was normally the time for her to run and play, for the past two days she did neither. The first couple days of the week they had stayed in, though she skipped Monday....
Lonely Oak Chapter 77 - Flight Of The Spelling Bee (Part 1)
Lyza made hardly a sound as she shuffled into the classroom. Her backpack was pulled snugly against her, its weight beginning to take a toll on her posture. It carried a few extra books that she normally did not bring to school. When she went to hang...
Lonely Oak Chapter 83
Monday morning was the worst. Sure, it happened once a week, and by now they should be used to it; but it was just terrible. What better way to ruin a good weekend then to have to wake up to _Monday_? Rini sat with her hand pressed against her temple....
Lonely Oak Chapter 82
Ket kept his hand as steady as he could. The block of wood in his left grip twitched and pushed with every stroke of the knife upon the opposite-facing surface. The block was fairly hard to hold still, as he had the edge of it against the middle of his...
Lonely Oak Chapter 81
"No... _Fucking..._ Way..." Panda gestured to the stage as the wolf left. "Goren, everybody!" He said to the crowd beside him, who had so reverently praised and flaunted him just a moment ago. "Lyza, your word is: Arrogance." "Arrogance," Lyza said...
Lonely Oak Chapter 80
The bitter blackness, heavy and viscous, rippled. It was a very quick, light ripple. Like the surface of a plate of gelatin, it wiggled and then settled. But it was just enough. The inky black feeling slipped away as the gently disturbed surface of his...
Lonely Oak Chapter 79
_How could today be so..._ boring? At some point, each student in Ms. Hupp's class had that thought. It was like a fantasy come true. It was Friday, Ritzer was still gone, and all day they had done nothing but watch educational movies. Sure, some...
Lonely Oak Chapter 78 - Flight Of The Spelling Bee (Part 2)
It was Wednesday, but to Lyza it still felt like Monday. Not in the sense that the day had the attributes of a Monday: fresh start to the beginning of the week, sleeping in the day before, and having only a little more than half a day to herself. It...
Lonely Oak Chapter 48
"Pull!" Lyza's fists clenched tighter. She waited, waited, waited. When the force of the sound hit her, she felt it stop her heart and shove the breath from her lungs, like someone had jabbed her in the gut. Kval pumped the shotgun and readied it...
Lonely Oak Chapter 17
Panda--now recognized by the name after he spent the entire day yesterday fixing that mess--huffed with great effort as he trudged along outside. It was PE, which meant he was not having any fun at all. Worse, Ritzer had been absent for a couple days...
Lonely Oak Chapter 32
Nine in the morning. The clouds had not yet broken in the sky. The air about was sweet with the smell of oncoming rain, half a month early. The grass was still a little wet with dew. There was a bit of a chill, which made the proceeding fifteen...