Lonely Oak Chapter 43
It was nearing sunset; the great fire in the sky an orange more ripe and round than any on the surface of the world. All around it the sky was turned to gold and the clouds turned to coal. Its gilded light swathed the earth, making the shadows long...
Lonely Oak Chapter 46
The long-eared siblings walked up a shallow hill. The time was mid-morning, about ten o'clock. They had just come from eating breakfast. Camp Connalake had two eating shifts of each type, to accommodate the early-risers and the late-risers, but it was...
Lonely Oak Chapter 26
Lyza shivered in the cold. She sniffed, a bit of drainage leaking out her nose. Why was it that when it was warm out, they stayed in the stupid gym, and then when it was cold they did all the outdoor stuff? It didn't make sense at all. And worse, she...
Lonely Oak Chapter 80
The bitter blackness, heavy and viscous, rippled. It was a very quick, light ripple. Like the surface of a plate of gelatin, it wiggled and then settled. But it was just enough. The inky black feeling slipped away as the gently disturbed surface of his...
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...
Lonely Oak Chapter 122 - Round Two
In each classroom, the kids spent the rest of the remaining nearly-two-hours of the school-day cleaning up the classrooms, packing their things away, and returning the desks to their groups or rows. Ket was relegated to a back-corner of the room,...
Lonely Oak Chapter 44
At almost ten o'clock, one would think it would be night time. But at the beach, there was no such thing as night; there was only partying, and even though there was a lights-out at the campsites, the beach was afire with, well, fire. Tiki-style...
Lonely Oak Chapter 86
Thirty more seconds passed. "What are you waiting for?" The voice was as barren and dry as a desert at high noon. Rini let go of the doorknob. She turned, expecting to see the rabbit looking at her. But no, she was turned away, her hand shortening...
Lonely Oak Chapter 45
The splash of sunlight was what roused her. It bathed her lids and made them glow like a red-hot ball of molten metal. She turned over, her slogged brain hoping to evade the terrible bright that threatened her sleep and disturbed her sensitive eyes....
4X+Y Chapter 03 - Twisted Sequence (Adenine)
"Hey, Andrea!" The red panda paused in her idle pacing, as two canines from her class scampered up to her. The wind formed rapid waves along their sundresses when it blew, their pink and hot-orange leggings peeking out from underneath. Their locks...
Lonely Oak Chapter 50
Ket lay on his sleeping bag with his arms folded behind his head, hands underneath his pillow. His foot tapped against the darkness, to the beat of the drums he heard not too far away. The partyers were much more festive tonight, probably because more...
Lonely Oak Chapter 94 - Bubble'n'Squeak
The day was humid. Since P.E., clouds had shrouded the skies and now the sun was hidden behind a gray, cumulonimbus monolith. Thankfully, now and again, a gentle breeze stirred the air. But that was a luxury, up in the Slide Tower. Emeral looked out...