Lonely Oak Chapter 92 - Emeral, M.D.
The mother tigress stood in the kitchen, pulling her hair into a pony-tail as she watched the coffee pot begin to gurgle. Oh how she needed the caffeine this morning. Allergies were terrible; why-ever they still existed she couldn't understand. As far...
Lonely Oak Chapter 103 - The Queen
Humid. The storms over the weekend were the last to be expected for some time. They came, they ruined the weekend, and now they left. In their wake, the sun-baked ground began to dry, pulling the water into the air. Even indoors, there was a sort of...
Lonely Oak Chapter 102 - Roomy Undies Of Bravery
She squeaked when she felt a weight depress the mattress next to her. She started to panic when she heard him breathing heavily, grunting and groaning. She rested her hand on him, feeling him rock and squirm a little. "Wh-what's wrong?" She...
Lonely Oak Chapter 101 - An Emmy In Ket's Clothing
Emeral breathed with concentration, counting in her head. Her arms were stretched behind her, fists pointed down at forty-five degree angles. The muscles in her back and shoulders tingled with a satisfying twinge as they were loosened. She let out her...
Lonely Oak Chapter 87
There is a place at Lonely Oak Elementary, in the school's courtyard, different from any other place in the world. There is an iron fence that has no gate; just an open way. The fence surrounds a modest square of land, nestled in the corner outside of...
Lonely Oak Chapter 91
The kitchen light was on. She hesitated for just a moment. The person inside, if any, would ask what she was doing up so late--on a school night. She chewed her lip. _Act sleepy._ She told herself. _You woke up cuz it's hot, and you're thirsty._ Her...
Lonely Oak Chapter 90
The tiger walked toward the counselor's area. Past the library, into the first-grade hallway. He had not been to this area... well, not since first grade, of course. It was decorated with pale blue bricks, which actually looked freshly coated. When he...
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 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...