She had long, silver frizzy hair that had forgotten what a brush was decades ago. Her face wrinkled to the point of exhaustion. Wrinkles criss-crossed over other wrinkles. It looked like a stack of transparent topological maps laid on top of each other so that all the...
Uncle Albert had a saying that Mom and Dad didn’t approve of but that seemed totally appropriate just now. If you step into a steaming pile of should, don’t stand there feeling sorry for yourself. Like all great sayings about life, they were funny and nearly...
Rana shrugged out of her backpack and unzipped it. She pulled out several water bottles and energy bars. “Anyone want a snack?” Snack! My belly grumbled so loud it sounded like a toad with a...
And then it exploded. Not the toilet. That would’ve been deadly with all those sharp porcelain shards flying around. But the water inside it. It exploded upward like a geyser. Like Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park. This was the disgusting bathroom toilet...
“What is that?” Ben whispered. “How should I know?” I snapped back. The heat and the not knowing was getting to me. I was losing my patience like a bad emergency room...
Emily wanted to turn away. But she couldn’t. The beast came down with the crushing force of an avalanche. Wild power that knew nothing greater than itself. An animal perfected over millions of years of evolution now executing on its...
