Chapter 25: The Coma

[nnwm15]   After Ryan’s apology, the group eventually returned to their discussion of summer camps. Mara hadn’t ever been to one, in fact, she’d never participated in any non-mandatory activity. Her parents sent her to school, but they never had much interest in sending her elsewhere. She told the group of the trips to the …

Chapter 4: Sara Beth

[nnwm15] Sara Beth sat in the corner of the room crying, alternating from light sniffles to harder sobs as she tried harder and harder to tuck herself into a ball. She wanted to block out the whole world, and while successful in doing that, she wasn’t very successful in calming herself down. She never had …

#54 Waking Up

Anna sat up in the bed and yawned. She hadn’t meant to fall asleep, but lying there sleep had taken hold. It was dark out now, the afternoon sun fading into darkness. She felt groggy, and disoriented from her unexpected slumber. She staggered over to her desk and sat down across from her laptop, still …

#34 A Literal World

“Ouch! That burned a bit”, Amiee said as she felt a warm heat on the back of her neck. “What was that”, she asked her friend Mary. “Dragonfly, probably”, Mary responded. “Sometimes their fire breath gets a bit intense!”. About an hour earlier, Amiee had walked along minding her own business when a rock appeared …