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 27
"Good morning, class." "Morning Ms. Hupp..." The raccoon teacher stood at the center of the room, wearing clothes that were a couple sizes smaller than she had from the beginning of January. Therefore, she was in a very upbeat mood this morning,...
Lonely Oak Chapter 24
Emeral sat sleepily in the back seat of her mom's car. She yawned with a little squeak. "Someone is still a sleepy head," her mom teased in the front seat. "It's seven-thirty in the morning on a Saturday, of course my head is sleepy." "Hey this...
Lonely Oak Chapter 15
The classroom was silent, save for the scritch-and-scratch of pencils against paper, the occasional eraser chirp, and a couple of kids with a persistent cough. It was only the second Monday since the...
Lonely Oak Chapter 33 - Meet Eeyore Shower
Lyza stared out into the darkness. The last orange lights of the city had disappeared some time ago and now the darkness was big and all over. It was everywhere, like she was in a submarine beneath the ocean. The thrum of the engine beneath her had...
Lonely Oak Chapter 8
_Twas Christmas morning and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for a mouse._ Well, actually, a rat. Rini had woken up extremely early, precisely seven...
Lonely Oak Chapter 6
Ket had been skating for all of three minutes on his own, outside of the beginner's circle. He forgot his teeth once, but he didn't fall; he managed to keep himself balanced and recovered back into skating-stride. In order to do...
Lonely Oak Chapter 29
"Nononono, hang on," Emeral said, pressing her hand up into the air, "that's totally wrong, you'll hurt your neck." "I'm doing exactly what you said!" Ket grumbled, his head and knees on the ground, situated in front of the couch cushions laid in a...
Raspberry Line Chapter 20
Emeral sat on her bed, tumbling the little red phone between her palms, and tumbling Ket's last, few little words in her mind. _I'll call your cell later..._ Back... front... ...
Lonely Oak Chapter 5
"Man this place got expensive," Kval muttered, fishing another twenty out of his wallet. The doe at the counter took it objectively, and worked the register for only a second, "four thirty-four is your...
Lonely Oak Chapter 19
Lyza didn't really wake up right away. She became conscious, but her mind was foggy and groggy and any other type of _-oggy_. She slipped in and out of a dream, but with every lapse over the line of here and there she forgot what she dreamt of. At...
Lonely Oak Chapter 7
Lyza slowly shut the door of her bedroom, leaving it open only a crack. Before she let go of the handle, she heard the footsteps near, and then turn right as her brother went to his room. Only after he settled did she allow the...