You know that part in the story where the character thinks, I bet I didn’t really see a ghost after all. I bet it was just a sheet. Wearing chains. Floating through our pantry. Shrieking. I bet it was...
Aw, hewwo, widdle Chihuahua, she said. Hewwo.
It smelled the way a garage would smell if you left a bear inside it for too long.
Wherefor are you knowing it? If you stacked all of the Gorg in the galaxy on top of eachother, the Gorg would kill you.
This is where you all live? Asked John as they ascended the stairs. It's small.This is just our Thanksgiving house, Scott muttered. We have a house for every day of the year.
Soon the Boov was in the ghost suit and Pig was in the car, which would be a good lyric for a bluegrass song, now that I think of it.
Project: Potential was a separate class that the gifted students went to for an hour each day. The name was supposed to make it exciting, like Code Name: Cursive or Mission: State Capitals.
I’d drained our bank account, and there was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept at the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled DEAD SPIDERS. As if I hadn’t...
I'm part fairy,' said John. There was a quiet pause, and he eyed the man. 'Is that a problem?' 'No, sir. The United States military is very accepting of that sort of thing nowadays.
I didn’t feel up to arguing about it, but I was pretty sure if you loved everything you didn’t really love anything.
I am rubber but you are blue. Whatevers you are saying bounces off of me and I do not remember the rest.
Archimedes was a mathematician, blurted Ethan from the back of the room. And he was Greek. And he invented things. Ethan was the sort of student who was always keeping score--if he couldn't be the fir...
You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are...
The sky looked really great when nearly the entire country was blacked out. Of course, now it looked dangerous, too. I wondered if it would ever be just the night sky again, and not a black sea, full...
So why the pelican? Said Haskoll.The thief was giving Haskoll a look that said,
Sejal had not often thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club ki...
I've been punched by a vampire, an Indian girl, and a panda... I should be a video game.
I jerked my head at the billboard and asked J.Lo, What is that thing even trying to sell me, anyway? Eh, said J.Lo as he tried to think of how to explain it. Is a kind of strap for people whose eyes a...
I felt a stack of shelves, and these were filled with plastic bottles and maybe buckets, and one object that felt like the worst thing in the world but which turned out later to be a sandwich.
They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else.