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 67
For a few seconds, he didn't quite know what was going on. The world turned sideways before a wash of sparks and glitter. It fell over his eyes like he was having a blood-rush. The back of his skull throbbed with pain to the beat of his heart. His...
Lonely Oak Chapter 66
"Well _that_ was a winner right off the bat," Momma B. commented as they emerged from the three-ring tent. "One point for Emmy," Momma R. continued, leading the way for several yards. They stopped by a lamp-post that was ready to light very soon....
Lonely Oak Chapter 64
Ket spotted Momma B. standing by the changing rooms with her arms crossed. Next to her was a pole on which hung a couple blouses, a few other tops, and a few pairs of pants on the other side. "Have you tried these on yet?" Momma R. asked, thumbing...
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 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...
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 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 59
Lyza broke away from her brother's hand as they neared the archery range. Lunch had just barely ended, and they were the first at the range. "Mrs. Kiminy, hey!" The ewe stood on a small ladder, which she was climbing down as the rabbit siblings...
Lonely Oak Chapter 57
_No...Don't..._ "Don't what?" _Go..._ "Don't go?" _Don't...go in..._ "In where?" _Stay out...water..._ "Water--the ocean?" _It...swallow..._ "Then I'll stay." _Wait._ "I'll wait." _Stop._ "I'll stop." _No..._ "Emmrnh--" ...
Lonely Oak Chapter 54
The rain had finally died down, having lasted long enough to wait for the sun to disappear below the undulating horizon before scudding away and leaving everyone without any real day. The twilight was made of fire, though. It looked like the clouds...
Lonely Oak Chapter 53
How gray the world had become. No red nor green nor yellow hue; just ash and coal and greasy blue. The sidewalks, once a-blistering, now were cooled and smelled sweetly stoney. The air, once thick and festering, now was thin and drifting drearily...