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Here Lies Promise
I will tell you my name. I will tell you my age. I will describe my appearance all the way from the color of my hair to the nail polish on my toes, but not yet. Right now, none of those things are important. They’re so very unimportant because this story isn’t about me, not really. This story is about someone who outshines me in every way; and that is precisely the problem. Her name is Promise. She has hair of liquid gold and eyes that shine like stars. Her smile is the envy of all who have very looked upon it, and her teeth are perfectly straight. Her voice is light without being breathless. ...
From the Shadows
His ice blue eyes reflected his anticipation, deepening to nearly black as he lingered from the shadows of the veranda, silently awaiting her arrival. ****************Adrienne stepped to the open window in the drawing room. It was as tall as the length of the wall and led directly to the long veranda on the outside of the house. Since it was an unseasonably warm evening in February, she hoped to catch the breeze coming off the Mississippi River from where she stood. The nearly non-existent wind played ever so slightly with the sheer curta...
Nine Rosy Noses and a Dragon
Nine brothers—a full baseball team. From ages seven www.onedoor.ccto eighteen, their presence turned a group into a crowd. Each personality differed from the rest, making it impossible for anyone to mix them up. Even the twins, Reece and Rivers, made sure no one dared mistake one for the other. Each day was a new, undiscovered game to be discovered. Though they all favored their own sports in their own seasons, spring was the time when all schedules aligned—baseball season.Arlo, nine and a half years old, stood over home plate. It was after school, just before the season started, so the wind was bitter and...
Elpis
Maybury was a quiet place. Five and a half thousand people lived in it, but it wound a long way out into Nevada desert. Less a town, more a collection of villages scattered through the prickly-pear cacti and low scrubland. Prometheus arrived in the mid-afternoon when the sun was patiently cracking open the sidewalk. Even the weeds between the cracks were limp with heat. The few people out kept their heads down, hats tilted forward to hide their faces. When he killed the engine, he could almost hear the backs of their necks sizzling.He got out and shut the door. The car settled back onto its ha...