Game

Tom had never shot a gun before. He’d taken this rifle from a case in Zach’s father’s den. Zach’s father wasn’t going to be happy when he found it missing,…

“Stupid old lady,” Michael said as Dee pulled the Spider out of the carport. “She doesn’t even use this space, but will she let anybody else park here? God forbid….

Zach was asleep when he first felt the creeping around his legs. Or half asleep, anyway-he hadn’t really slept for days now. He hadn’t dreamed. His daytime thoughts went on…

The kitchen was empty. A trickle of water ran out of the faucet, and there was an odd, sharp smell. Sitting grotesquely in the middle of the green linoleum floor…

In midair she was knocked to the side with stunning force. A brutal blocking tackle. She landed with her face crushed into the sand. Not in the hole, on the…

Everything went gray.Blood roared in Jenny’s ears like the ocean. She was thrown back, in one instant, to the moment when she and Tom and the others had been sucked…

“What can we do?”They were at Audrey’s house, in the second-best family room where no adults would disturb them. Michael was looking at Jenny, his spaniel eyes glazed. “Well, that’s…

The headboard side-the figure was leaning over her from the headboard side. But there was a wall there. It was leaning out of the wall.”Get away from me!” Shouting broke…

It was that psychic,” Dee said promptly. “She looked like a case of peroxide on the brain to me.””No,” said Michael. “You know what it really is?” Jenny thought he…

Jenny screamed.Or got out half a scream anyway. The rest was cut off as something knocked her to the ground. It was the dark figure in front of her, and…

“What message?” Dee said, frowning.The psychic was still staring at Jenny intently. “You’ve got the look,” she said. “You’ve seen them -the faery folk.” Audrey said sharply, “The faery folk?”…

The others turned to Jenny. He’s your cousin; you deal with him, their looks said.Jenny took another deep breath. “You know perfectly well it will make a difference,” she said…

She looked in on Tom’s business law class first, but he wasn’t there. She headed downstairs. Then she began to forge her way across campus, weaving around fellow students who…

It wasn’t so much the hunting. It was the killing.That was what brought Gordie Wilson out to the Santa Ana foothills on a sunny May morning like this. That was…

It was Dee who made the phone call, because Audrey and Michael were looking out the kitchen window together, and Zach wasn’t the talking type. Jenny and Tom had moved…

“Yes,” Jenny said.Audrey gasped. “Jenny-for God’s sake.” Jenny didn’t look at her. Tom made some movement. Jenny didn’t look his way, either. “Jenny …” Dee whispered. “It’s not worth it….

“Jenny?” Dee’s voice said hesitantly. “Jenny, are you okay?”I’ve had such a strange dream, Jenny thought, but when she lifted her face from her hands, it was real. She was…

Cadet blue, which had just looked pale on the mirror, turned out to be gray on paper.Jenny was no artist, but she could draw simple things. Like a square-that was…

Floating in gray dimness, she heard a clock strike three.Wake up, she thought, but she didn’t want to. She floated for a while again. No, wake up, she thought. That’s…

What’s taking them so long?” Dee said.Audrey and Michael had gone off to see if they could find Zach, who they figured must be around here somewhere. Or if they…