In an instant, cold sweat coated my forehead and the back of my neck. I swallowed, and the Eraser Max in the mirror swallowed. I opened my mouth and saw the long, sharp canines. But when I touched the...
Iggy’s spine tightened, his face like ice. When he’d been at the School, they’d tried to surgically enhance his night vision. Now he was blind forever. Oops.
If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will yo...
If you're going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now...Things are almost never as bad as they first seem. Loosen up, girlfriend... you could giggle more i...
I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it. But now I do.
I stood there watching Phoebe arrange the pillows and the sheets. She isn't thinking that I... I mean, she doesn't think that she and I would... WHAT?
I stared at her in amazement. How do you even live with yourself?...You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be used as weapons, possibly against other Americans. I don't ge...
I shot him the bird. (Get it? I shot him the—never mind.)
I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty m...
I mean, who cares about SpongeBob SquarePants? I'm sitting here with Wolverine!-random kid talking to Ari
I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard.
I had survived the plagues of Africa, bullets and near death on the killing field. I’d survived the blade at my neck, only to lose my life to a virus inside a clean German clinic. I
I dumped half a cup of green tea into the sink. To hell with my chakras. I needed coffee.
I decided that every rule in the Hills Village Middle School Code of Conduct should be worth a certain number of points, depending on how hard it was to break. Of course, this meant I could get into s...
I am SAM, and this is my first mission. Wish me luck. Actually, don’t bother. I’m that good. I need to move fast, but I have to be careful too.This high-tech fortress disguised as a middle school has...
Human existence must be a kind of error. It is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens. My own philosophy was a little cheerier than Schopenhauer’s,
However, using insidious and irresistible mind-control techniques such as offering us Mountain Dew and a ton of nachos, the naval bigwigs had managed to corral us in this room for a debriefing.
However, I had been hoping that Donald Trump would just drop me off in one of his helicopters.
How did you become blind, uh, Jeff, is it? Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.
His ace in the hole was the pipe in the corner, the emergency shutoff valve.