Lonely Oak Chapter 68
Ket relaxed a bit with a sigh. He was last in the group, and as he exhaled Emeral glanced back to give him a bit of a smile. The apology wasn't as bad as he had imagined it. She even softened the blow for him. He wasn't really angry, she gave as an...
Lonely Oak Chapter 110 - My Chemical-Burn Romance
"...Lunch today will be burgers, mashed potatoes, and green beans..." Lyza sat at her desk with her cheek against her hand, holding up her head. Rini slipped through the door while the vice principal's voice carried over the speaker, dampened by the...
Lonely Oak Chapter 60
Her eyes stayed upon her target for a moment, before her tunnel-vision expanded to see the target next to hers. Rick's three bull's-eyes, now just a gigantic hole in the center of the target, were second. _How?_ She did the math three times,...
Lonely Oak Chapter 72
Emeral yawned. She was kept awake only by the act of brushing her hair. It was midnight, or close to it. She never remembered staying up so late in her entire life. She was surprised Ket was taking so long to shower. But, he did have to wait a bit...
Lonely Oak Chapter 63
"Tonight?" Rini sat in the middle of the couch. The TV played without sound, on some random channel. "...No." Beside her, Goren talked on her cellphone. Ritzer had called. "Dude, I don't care. I'm busy; I have plans." By the sounds of it,...
Lonely Oak Chapter 112 - Dark Side Of The Moon
End-of-day break. As Ms. Hupp's class filtered back in from their science lesson, the students snagged their backpacks off the hooks on the way to their desks. In small groups, they talked weekend plans and re-counted the number of school-days they...
Lonely Oak Chapter 111 - Forgiveness Versus Reconciliation
"Look at me, I'm Emmy. I'm a nurse! I diagnose myself with _I'mabuttitis_." "Kelly, come on," the rat grumbled. "That was serious, Justin and that other girl had to go to the med clinic." Kelly-Elly let the soles of her shoes hit the sand on the arc...
Lonely Oak Chapter 71
Lyza recognized the lady sitting at their camp tables. It took her a moment, but she remembered the woman from when they first arrived at Camp Connalake. She helped them pick out their campsite. Beside the mother koala was a boy about the girl...
Lonely Oak Chapter 69
Lyza folded her dirty clothes as best she could. Being a girl didn't mean she was miraculous at folding laundry, especially dirty laundry. Worse, Kval was the one who had packed it all away in the first place, so putting it away was almost impossible....
Lonely Oak Chapter 61
The bottom of Ket's shoes scraped along the cement as he padded alongside Emeral. Gone was the formerly encroaching smell of sea-salt and -weed. Away with the ever-present grains of sand and endless flatland from side to side. Mute was the constant...
Lonely Oak Chapter 88
"Well done, Ket," Ms. Hupp set her pen down definitively. She spoke to him with a calm, quiet kind of praise. "If this one was for real, you would have passed with commended status. I'm impressed, since social studies is your _kryptonite_." Ket leaned...
Lonely Oak Chapter 62
"You all right there, Kval?" He blinked. The fog that had clouded the expanse between himself and the target dissipated in that flash of a second. Atop the bale of hay, his arrow stuck awkwardly upward. "Yeah," the rabbit said, "I might...