Raspberry Line Chapter 11 - Dodge, Distract, Disorient, Deceive, And Destroy
It was agonizing waiting for Monday, but then when it finally arrived Emeral almost didn't want to go to school. She'd thought very deeply about what she could have done to make Ket practically run away from her. The only answer she could come up with...
Raspberry Line Chapter 10 - Drift Like A Leaf
"Get...started?" He repeated back. "Yeah," she took his wrist and led him to an area that wasn't so populated by dirt or trash. "My instructor says I'm not supposed to do this, but..." She swung her arms and clapped them together, like she was warming...
Raspberry Line Chapter 9 - Of Grapes, Apples, And Potatoes
Ket sat in the library, book propped open. He wasn't really reading it anymore, just pretending now. He liked the library, which many affectionately called The Mold-Farm. It was quiet, isolated, and always the same temperature year-round. No one...
Raspberry Line Chapter 7 - The Angry Tiger's Den
The white tigress's heart skipped a beat as she saw the street sign: _Raspberry Line_ and _Almond Field Road_. She looked down at the little sketch of the map she drew on a piece of notebook paper the night before. From here she turned right, and put...
Raspberry Line Chapter 6 - hTife
Emeral waded through the crowd, as if through a murky swamp of reeds, kelp and driftwood. Why teachers had them line up at the door was a mystery to her, because it all ended up as a boiling race to eat food that probably needed to be shielded behind...
Raspberry Line Chapter 4 - Accidentally A First Kiss
The class shuffled in, laughing and cackling. Except a few, who were a bit perturbed at the events on the playground; Emeral in particular. She took her seat, glaring forward at the empty desk in front of her, ignoring all else. Ritzer sat at the desk...
Raspberry Line Chapter 2 - Cimmanon Roll
Emeral yawned and brushed the hair out of her eyes with a heavy hand. She stepped into the cafeteria during breakfast. It was the same as any other cafeteria: smells of cinnamon rolls, chocolate milk, and every now and then a whiff from the...
Lonely Oak Chapter 12
The bell rang. Children scurried to their seats, pretending they had been there the entire time. There was no order, no seating arrangement; friends sat with friends, enemies sat far away from enemies, and the cliques and...
Lonely Oak Chapter 11
The world was noire. Pre-dawn light refracted across the clouds, as if the sky were a swatch of the deep ocean and the sun barely breached through the surface of the waters. Houses were without color nor feature, signs without...
Lonely Oak Chapter 10
The petting zoo smelled unappealing, but if you could get past that it was sort of fun. There were mostly goats, walking around with little bells tied to their necks. Once in a while they would shake their heads and make the...
Lonely Oak Chapter 9
The sky was as pink as a ripe cherry. It was only five o'clock and already the sun had gone down and propane floodlights began to dominate the atmosphere, splashing an ethereal noire-blue to most every surface. Amidst the ether...
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...