We would be outnumbered a couple hundred to two, by something worse than Erasers. I had no idea if the rest of the Flock would be able to help.It was pretty much a suicide mission.'There is one bright...
Wasn’t this great? Nudge asked excitedly. I can’t believe we’re in the White House! I want to be president someday. I’ll be vice president, the Gasman offered. You guys would be great, I said politely...
Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.
Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. Does anysing on you vork properly? Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.
Unfortunately, every time someone said debriefing, the entire flock had one image: someone’s tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it was getting harder. Coupled...
Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her...chest.'Iggy drew in a hissing breath.It's gonna stain f...
Toxic pheromone pollution. How can we combat that? Charles Groh and I looked at each other. This was it. We’d finally arrived at the hard part. What had to be done. The first step, I said, would be re...
Total? I said when he was close. Can you talk? He flopped down on the grass, panting slightly. Yeah. So? Jeezum. I mean, mutant weirdos are nothing new to me, you know? But a talking dog? Why didn’t y...
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fi...
They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They...
There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.
There comes a point in everybody’s life when you realize the stakes have suddenly changed. The carefree ride of your life slams into a stone wall; all those years of merely bouncing along, life taking...
Then right before my eyes, she flew. She actually flew like a bird. No, she flew as a young girl might fly, or a woman or a man, if people were meant to fly. She soared through the air. And that chang...
Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time.What are we but our stories?
Their mothers were nobodies, Marian (Max's mom) said. Donor eggs. Lab workers, techs, anyone we found. That was the point- that we could create a superrace out of anything. Out of .Well, you're right...
The thing is, the scientists back at the School had been playing with risky stuff, combining human and nonhuman DNA. Basically, the spliced genes started to unravel after a while, and the organisms te...
The thing is, Maximum, I love you. I can't help but be focused on you when we're together. If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk...
The secret of imaginary friends. Children have imaginary friends to help guide them into their lives. We help children feel less alone, help them find their place in the world, in their families. But...
The school crossing guard is a zombie? screams the youngest Smiley. Then she starts crying. I hugged her once, Mommy! Am I gonna turn into a zombie, too? Take it easy, dear, says Aunt Smiley. It’s jus...
The next morning-at least, I assumed it was morning, since we were all waking up- I felt like one of those twelve dancing princesses, who danced all night, wore holes in their shoes, and had to sleep...