I think I’m okay-- Another wave of agony doubled him over, retching.I’ll grab a beer from-- Daniel began.No, I’m okay. Really. Just get dressed before you scare the girls. He waved at Daniel, bare-che...
I shimmied up a tree and waited for her to pass my way. But once she got close enough for me to see her through the branches, she sat down to rest. When she didn’t come closer, I started crawling alon...
I promise not to try to get you back into the woods. He paused. For at least forty-eight hours.I laughed. So you on a schedule.No, I’m impatient. But I will wait.For forty-eight hours. And if there’s...
I needed to make choices for me, whoever I was. I’d say I needed to find myself, if that didn’t sound like I was heading into the Himalayas, taking only a backpack stuffed with angst and clean underwe...
I know I’m not the person you want to talk to about this. About Rafe. That’s why you didn’t call last night. I’m not Serena.No, that’s not--It is. I get that. You guys were best friends. Except, well,...
How about we up the stakes? I win, you talk to me.Now it was my turn to raise my eyebrows. I’m afraid to ask what you mean by …Exactly that. I win, I get thirty minutes of your time tonight.To charm m...
He was standing in front of Daniel’s dresser, holding our drinks as he looked at the photos shoved in the mirror frame.You guys really been friends a long time. He pointed the beer bottle at one. Wha...
He turned my way, and I was so engrossed in my thoughts that I didn't notice for a second. Then I realized I was staring at him, and looked away fast, cheeks flaming. I could feel him looking at me. F...
He stood and inhaled, then walked a few more feet, stooped, and prodded a chunk of rabbit fur.I’m definitely thinking something with more body parts, I said. Like a head.He gave a snort of a laugh. It...
He looked like a Yanni fan at an Iron Maiden Concert.
He called after me, How old am I, Maya?I turned. How the hell should I know? Whatever you’ve told the school, I’m sure it’s a lie anyway.
Guess Mom’s taking the day off, Corey said as we drew close enough to see the sheriff’s SUV in the drive.Considering she thinks you’re dead, I’d imagine she’s taking a lot of days off, I said.
Go on, Maya, he said, words slurring. Remember what we said. Only one has to get away.Then it’ll have to be Rafe or Corey. I’m not leaving--They got Rafe and Corey. You know they did. Go.I shook my he...
Cwn Annwn, I said. I think I’m finally pronouncing that right. Welsh. So many letters. So few vowels.
Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.
But that's what dreams are for—to weave reality and fantasy and memory and stitch together something you can't hope for in waking life. To fulfill that little part of you that wants something so bad.
Better not stick around or I might ask you to join me.Rafe chuckled. If I thought you were serious, I’d take you up on that. I was just coming in to do a better job washing up. There wasn’t any water...
Absolutely alone in the dark. Every outside stimulus vanishes and there’s nothing except me in the darkness and the silence. I swear I can hear my thoughts. All my thoughts. And it’s horribly uncomfor...
A girl my age had been murdered in these woods and I'd seen her last terrified moments, watched her bleed to death in this forest. A life like mine had ended here, and it didn't matter how many times...
You’ve found out something else. Something about you, not me.Does your new bag of tricks include mind reading?He laughed. Only when it comes to you, Maya.