Raspberry Line Chapter 1 - Silver & Gold
"All right class, now just like before: we take this number and ask ourselves 'how many times does four go into nine?'--and of course since two times four is eight, then four goes into nine... Ket, pick your head up and pay attention." The tiger's...
Lonely Oak Chapter 1 - The Very Bad Bunny
The house was silent as a graveyard. It was cold. Winter was bitter. Night was the worst, and here it was between two and three in the morning. Closer to three probably, but he didn't really know. He blinked dryly, his lids scratching his eyeballs. It...
Raspberry Line Chapter 3 - Butterflies
Lunch arrived, and then passed. Crispy Tacos, with ground meat that left a metallic aftertaste. Presently, Emeral sat at her desk, as she had done all morning, staring at the back of Ket's head. It was all she could do to keep from falling asleep. So...
Lonely Oak Chapter 2
Miss Rachaun sighed as she drummed on the kitchen table. Make that the _clean_ kitchen table. She smiled. Cleaning was more liberating than she could have ever imagined. Or perhaps it was that she knew, in a couple of weeks, she...
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 24
Perceptions were all but lost. Time. Space. Gravity. Corporeality. Everything was relatively irrelevant. All that mattered was not even matter itself. Though it was nice that they could see each others eyes, that they...
Lonely Oak Chapter 3
Ket slammed his fist against the bathtub knob to shut the water off. He stood on his tip-toes to place the shower-head back in its holster. He reached down to the drain, pulling up the knot of hair, and the water appeared to...
Lonely Oak Chapter 34 - Vitamin C
_Bing!_ "Vitimin C!" Lyza exclaimed triumphantly, her hand still poised over the little bell sitting on the stool. "Very good," Mrs. Rinder said with a smile, "Six points for Team A." Lyza's team cheered; they were in the lead! Next up was Shy...
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 8 - Medicine For The Soul
"Hold still!" The boy struggled, trying everything he could to get away; shifting his weight, pulling, pushing, jerking. Nothing worked. He was a head taller than the girl and yet nothing worked. "Stop struggling," She huffed, squeezing her right arm...
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...
Raspberry Line Chapter 5 - Get To Know: Arkethius Rachaun
Outside, it was raining a little. A storm had picked up from a cool front coming through. It was a nice change from the hot days. The soft drumming of the raindrops against the gutters, a random and hypnotizing pattern, couldn't quell Emeral's mind as...