Things settled into a lazy pattern. School, chores, and long hours down by the river. Kiernan talked about the books he read sometimes, even loaned me a few. But I liked it better when he read to me o...
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Watching people you love walk into danger is a hundred times harder than walking into it yourself.
Well, I'm expecting great things from you, young man! Th-thank you, Brother Cyrus. As soon as he released my shoulders, I hurried over to the glass wall where Kiernan was sitting, frowning out at the...
Where's Kiernan? I asked. He's with Brother Cyrus. Your turn.The blood drained from my face and I stepped back, toward the wall. One of the older women, Glory, had died from a heart attack the year be...
You look very librarian. He’s right. The blue dress falls just below the knee and is probably the frumpiest-looking thing I’ve ever worn, but at least it’s loose enough that I can fight in it if I hav...
You’ll always have discontents in any system, Kate. Some people feel they’re being oppressed or held back, even if they have everything they need or everything that a reasonable person could want. Som...
Additional thanks go out to everyone at Skyscape and Amazon Publishing, especially Courtney Miller, Terry Goodman, and Tim Ditlow. This has been a wild ride and you’ve all been very patient with a new...
As I’m reading Katherine’s historical diaries, every now and then I’ll see a question that Katherine asked, like, ‘Who is the Infanta?’ or ‘What is a simoleon?’ In SimCity, a simoleon is money, Trey i...
As soon as he turns the key, a man with a heavy British accent starts talking about giants not being meant to live in groups. That’s . . . Hagrid. , Aaron says. I got the full set as a Christmas prese...
But I’m still too wound up to sleep. So I browse through the audiobooks on the intranet, hoping I’ll find the one I’m looking for. It’s there. . I skip to Chapter Twenty-One and forward to a section n...
But what if it can’t be fixed? I ask before I even realize I’m going to speak. Or if I can’t fix it without hurting even more people? Sister Elba pauses to close the armonica case and then walks towar...
Come on, even the MoCoPopo aren’t that blind.
For the past year, food of some sort has been a permanent appendage to Deo’s hand. Sometimes both hands at once. At first, I teased that he was going to get fat, but then he shot upward—six full inche...
Holy trinity of Creole cuisine—bell peppers, celery, and onions—while
How much time is wasted today training children to perform a variety of skills that they not only will never use but would never even consider using?
Photographs at my grandmother’s house—her
It’s like Niemöller said, if you ignore it when they’re taking rights from everyone else, pretty soon they’ll come after yours, and there’s no one left to protest.
Penso che sia importante sapere di essere desiderati, magari perfino di essere necessari, non credete? Ci dà qualcosa a cui aggrapparci quando siamo smarriti in un posto estraneo.
Take that and go play. I don’t care if it takes a year. Get the boy out of your system and then get back here. We’ve got work to do. At the time, I thought Saul meant I needed to take some time to gro...
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