After dinner, while everyone else had gathered in the media room to watch Shrek the Third on DVD, I managed to slip away to the kitchen where I grabbed the cordless phone and hid myself away in the pantry. I knew that with the time difference between Maine and California, I would have a really […]

  Lord knows how long I sat alone in the dark. The only light in the room came from the quickly dying fire. I am sure it was at least half an hour, maybe more before Grandmother came looking for me. I had stopped crying but one look at me and she knew I was […]

  For the first time since I had entered his study and sat across from him he looked at me. I mean really looked at me. He cleared his throat again, brushed his chin with his thumb thoughtfully and then said, “It means angry and unhappy.” My only reply was to look at the lavish […]

  About then this short, brown-haired guy wearing a brown necktie, white shirt, pressed chocolate brown slacks, and scuffed black dress shoes walked up to us. The guy didn’t look old enough to drive, let alone be the manager of the entire water park. One look at his name tag revealed that he was in […]

  When we reached the corkscrew part of the slide we actually made a complete one-eighty spin so that we were going down backwards. Sheller screamed and I’m not sure if he was screaming because he was scared or if he was having fun. We emerged from the slide like a couple human cannonballs and […]

  My Principal poked his head into the car before I had closed the door. “You get some rest this weekend. I expect you back in school Monday morning and ready to hit the books.” He then shook my good hand and gave me a bump on the chin with the side of his thumb. […]

The next thing I knew, I was lying flat on my back looking up at… MY GRANDFATHER?! “Grandfather?” I asked, unable to believe that I was suddenly seeing him. “Lie still boy,” he said, while brushing my hair out of my eyes. I heard something to my right and turned my head to see some […]

  There were great rivers of laughter tears flowing from my eyes and as I wiped them away using my ACE Bandage I said, “All this time I thought you were a ghost!” as soon as the words were out of my mouth I lost it again. “Oh man! I think I am going to […]

Once inside, I found myself facing a painted brick wall. Heck, if I had been moving any faster when I leapt inside, I surely would have crashed right into the monolithic obstruction. I don’t think my brain was able to grasp the existence of this wall because it told my hand to reach out and […]

  I looked back into the crowd and saw that Stacks was smiling, but she wasn’t coming toward us. She was talking with this guy who I’d have to classify as a stud. Not that I am into checking out guys; I’m just saying… well you know what I am trying to say here. I’m […]