Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, sending...
I hate the way my mother thinks.
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. N...
It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me
He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable voice suddenly linked with his own, the sense it gave of being too close to e...
She lied to me today, Archie said.A teenager? Susan said with faux surprise. Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.
There are things you do when you are a teenager, or a dancer, or just a girl, I guess. You cut your food up in special ways, or you cut yourself, or paper dolls. You pretend that there is an invisible...
If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.