Literature

Afghanistan The aim of the following essay will be to evaluate the impact which the ISAF and peace-keeping efforts by the United Nations have had on the peacebuilding process in…

“Poor Sheeb, still locked in half-human form,” Jezebel teased. “I remember how good everything smells all the time. Ugh. And the temperature! Do the humans have to freeze everything with…

“Yes!” the pale dark girl hissed, hidden in her stall, and a forked tongue of flame lit her face with red. The fire popped loud enough that someone might have…

“Are you kidding? I barely got off suspension in time to be allowed to come tonight.” Of course, at the moment Gabe was wishing the timing hadn’t been so helpful….

Hell on Earth Stephenie Meyer Gabe stared across the dance floor and frowned. He wasn’t sure why he’d asked Celeste to the prom, and it was another mystery why she’d…

Miranda sat in the car watching the power boat disappear on the horizon, taking Sibby wherever she was going. You have no time to relax, she reminded herself. Deputy Reynolds…

Miranda, dressed in the blue uniform, pushed aside the man she’d just hit over the head with the clock to reach Sibby. She still had handcuff bracelets around her wrists,…

Eighteen minutes later, deputy Sergeant Caleb Reynolds stood outside the door of the director’s office, watching them through a crack. It had taken him slightly longer than expected to get…

It worked perfectly.Almost. There were six guards blocking the exits and another four at the door, checking everyone as they left. Ten total. All in body armor and masks, explaining…

He said, “Hi.”And she said, “Ho.” God. GOD. Could she just say one normal thing? Thanks Crazy Mouth. He cocked an eyebrow at her. “I didn’t know you were coming…

“You’re crazy,” Sibby said as they walked in. Her eyes were pancake-size. “You said this would suck. This doesn’t suck. This is fantastic.”Miranda shuddered. They’d snuck into the Grand Hall…

“He didn’t even know you were there,” Sibby said. “He never even knew who hit him.””That was the idea.” They were parked next to an abandoned Amtrak maintenance building on…

“Put them up,” Glasses Geek said. “I mean your arms. Miranda did what he said because his hands were shaking so much she was afraid he’d shoot her by accident….

Introduction Recognition of the importance of evidence and theory-based practice in social work has grown in recent years (Webb, 2001). Their importance in this field of work should be encouraged…

What do you think you’re doing? she asked herself. Rhetorically, since she was already up the Snow-White-and-the-Seven-Dwarves-Do-Baby-Jesus neighbor’s tree and staring into the yard of the house where she’d left…

Sibby Cumean started talking as soon as they got out of the airport. “How long have you been driving people around?” she asked Miranda. A year. “Did you grow up…

Miranda loved the Santa Barbara airport, the way it looked more like an Acapulco Joe’s Cantina than an official building with its adobe-style walls, cool terra-cotta floor, loopy blue and…

EIGHT HOURS EARLIER… “Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you re heading for Awkward Avenue,” Miranda read, then frowned at the…

Kiss and Tell Michele Jaffe Chapter One “Sorry this wasn’t more of a storybook ending,” the man with his hands around her throat said, smiling, holding her eyes with his…

Restless, I sat on the roof in the dark, flicking stones into the night as I tried to realign my thinking. I wasn’t alive, but I wasn’t altogether dead, either….