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I'm sorry, I don't understand. Could you tell me more about this 'profanity'?Mrs. Miller nodded at my dictionary. I'll assume you don't need a definition. Perhaps you'd prefer an example?That would be...

Dale Peck

I'm sorry, I don't understand. Could you tell me more about this 'profanity'?Mrs. Miller nodded at my dictionary. I'll assume you don't need a definition. Perhaps you'd prefer an example?That would be...

Tags: humour, profanity, sprout

I have a secret. And everyone knows it but me.

Dale Peck

I have a secret. And everyone knows it but me.

Tags: sprouts

About Author
Dale Peck (born 1967) is an American novelist, literary critic, and columnist. His 2009 novel, Sprout, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature, and was a finalist for the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category.

Children, Mrs. Oakenfeld sighed.I do not want you to be good to avoid being punished. I do not want you to be good so that you can receive rewards. I want you to be good, she stressed, because it is t...

Dale Peck

Children, Mrs. Oakenfeld sighed.I do not want you to be good to avoid being punished. I do not want you to be good so that you can receive rewards. I want you to be good, she stressed, because it is t...

Life's cheap out here, Daniel. With a little budgeting I can get by till you go off to college.And then?My dad reached for whatever he was drinking that day.There don't always have to be a then. He po...

Dale Peck

Life's cheap out here, Daniel. With a little budgeting I can get by till you go off to college.And then?My dad reached for whatever he was drinking that day.There don't always have to be a then. He po...

There's an alchemy that happens during sex that causes 1 + 1 to add up to much more than 2, even as those halves meld in an almost magical way to form a single unit that's more complete than either of...

Dale Peck

There's an alchemy that happens during sex that causes 1 + 1 to add up to much more than 2, even as those halves meld in an almost magical way to form a single unit that's more complete than either of...

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

Dale Peck

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

Tags: young adult

I hate it when people repeat the last thing that’s been said to them because they’re too afraid to ask what the other person meant by it. You want to remember this moment, I said finally, because when...

Dale Peck

I hate it when people repeat the last thing that’s been said to them because they’re too afraid to ask what the other person meant by it. You want to remember this moment, I said finally, because when...

Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.

Dale Peck

Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.

Because freedom, it turned out, wasn't like a new shoe: you didn't need to break it in. It felt comfortable the first time you tried it on. It wasn't the present that pinched, it was the past.

Dale Peck

Because freedom, it turned out, wasn't like a new shoe: you didn't need to break it in. It felt comfortable the first time you tried it on. It wasn't the present that pinched, it was the past.

You are - she stopped fanning long enough to push the glasses up her nose - Sprout Bradford?I thought it was a little pretentious to say You are Sprout Bradford? instead of Are you Sprout Bradford? so...

Dale Peck

You are - she stopped fanning long enough to push the glasses up her nose - Sprout Bradford?I thought it was a little pretentious to say You are Sprout Bradford? instead of Are you Sprout Bradford? so...