But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When yo...
Because if you fidget or wriggle or squirm or sass me or get an answer wrong, I'll wiggle my ears— (Wiggles her ears: they vibrate dramatically. MYRON and BEBE duck under their desks) MYRON and BEBE:...
When Trapp was a young man, did he have sex with Annabel King,
She found herself staring at a large puddle of some kind of fuzz-covered mud. Her mind barely registered it at first, but the more she gazed at the odd-looking mud, the more it drew her attention. The...
Letter. Stanley
Passed away seemed like an appropriate way of putting it. Over the next few days, I had this recurring image of Trapp sitting at the bridge table. He reaches into the bidding box, removes a pass card,...
Normally Trapp would just sit back and let the opponents argue, but I think he was offended by her use of the word fixed. She had just called him stupid and lucky. Worse, she blamed his supposedly luc...
He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.
Everyone in his family had always liked the fact that Stanley Yelnats was spelled the same frontward and backward. So they kept naming their sons Stanley. Stanley was an only child, as was every other...
Chalkers sat at his desk in the back of the room—last seat, last row. No one sat at the desk next to him or at the one in front of him. He was
Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up.
Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. you'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.
It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather!
Cautiously,
Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.
After all, if you’re not scared, then there’s nothing to be brave about, is there?