Literature

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…

Excitement bubbled up in Jenny. “Finally we can go somewhere.””And get out of this freaking hallway,” Dee said. Michael was looking awed. “It’s just like going up to the next…

It was an abstract rendition of a forest, very heavy on green swirling lines.”All right, so I did draw a forest,” Audrey said. “I’ve always had nightmares about them, but…

Mock scraped on rock and the moonlight was cut off above them. Audrey was lying in a ball beside Jenny near the bottom of the slope. Dee had been shoved…

“Cypress eyes and sun-glowing skin … and your hair’s like liquid amber. Why do you wear it back like that?””Because Tom likes it,” Jenny said reflexively, her standard response. “Look,…

The room behind the door had golden-ocher walls. On one of them an African mask hung in primitive glory. Several clay sculptures rested on built-in teak shelving, including a bust…

Jenny whirled on the boy in black, who was leaning against the parlor wall and watching in amusement.”What are you doing to him?” “In the Game you have to face…

Jenny felt as if a black riptide was trying to suck her underwater. It was him. The boy from the game store. Every detail of his face was reproduced perfectly,…

God-the box, Jenny thought. Michael was the sort who would potter around the room reading your mail and opening your drawers in an absentminded way. Insatiably curious. She followed him.Her…

She stopped. The boy was holding out the box to her. Jenny hesitated, nonplussed.”You can hold it if you want,” he said gently. “Okay,” Jenny said, embarrassed, her vehemence fading….

Jenny glanced back over her shoulder. They were still behind her, on the other side of the street but definitely following. They matched their pace to hers; when she slowed…

Abstract Power distribution in modern states can come in many forms, from democracies designed to satisfy the entire population to dictatorships where civilians are repressed. The ideologies and theories behind…

Cassie arrived back at her house in a cold sweat. Her clothes had been splashed wet from her furious rowing; she’d wanted to get as far away from the caves…

Cassie looked around in confusion. Something strange was happening to all the members of the Circle.Adam was sneering oddly. His hands were balled into fists and he was grinding his…

It felt different from any magic Cassie had ever done before. The energy behind the words surged through her like it did when she had uttered the spell on the…

Scarlett sat at Cassie’s desk, poring over Black John’s Book of Shadows while Cassie and Adam worked on their laptops – but Cassie was really keeping an eye on Scarlett….

“What did Scarlett say to you last night?” Adam asked. He and Cassie were taking an early morning walk out on the bluff before the others woke up.”A lot.” Cassie…

“You can’t hide it from us any longer, Diana,” Melanie said. “It was pretty obvious when he risked his life to protect you.”The group was gathered around the coffee table…