He’s not my dad, Kaira said. Just because he married my— As soon as I turn eighteen I’m firing his ass! Then I’ll call you.
Bad dreams are better than good dreams. When you have a bad dream, you wake up, you look around, and you say, Whew! It was only a dream. Everything is still the same as it was—wonderful! When you have...
Left his great-grandfather to face the hot barren desert. The Warden had left Stanley to face Mr. Sir. Somehow his great-grandfather
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Had.
You make the decision: Whom did God punish?
Stanley took a shower—if you could call it that, ate dinner—if you could call it that, and went to bed—if you could call his smelly and scratchy cot a bed.
She looked around. There was a bulletin board covered with A papers. She looked from one paper to another and hoped, with all her heart, that she’d see one with Bradley’s name on it. She didn’t.
Onions! Fresh, hot, sweet onions, Sam called as Mary Lou pulled the cart down Main Street. Eight cents a dozen. It was a beautiful spring morning. The sky was painted pale blue and pink—the same color...
My dog, Pugsy, was hit by a car,
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Lucy hugged my uncle as she gushed about how wonderful it was to see him playing bridge again. Then she got all flustered and apologetic because she had used the word see. It’s all right, Lucy, Trapp...
Love is different from most things. If I gave my piece of chalk to someone, then I wouldn't have it anymore. But when I give my love to someone, I end up with more love than I started with. The more l...
League in
I’m Felix, said the skinny guy. This is my man Moses.
If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs,The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,Crying to the moo-oo-oon,If only, If only.
If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that’s gone by.Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high my baby bird, My angel, my only.
If a donkey could talk, and if the donkey had a sore throat, and if it spoke with a French accent—that was what Mr. Gorf’s voice sounded like.
Friends always break even.
Dameon had hazel eyes with little black dots in the middle of each of them. The dots were called pupils.