Literature

The voices from above were getting nearer. Cassie couldn’t move; a gray blanket seemed to have enfolded her senses. Chris was pulling at her arm.”C’mon, Cassie! They’re comin’!” Faintly, Cassie…

“It was a hurricane,” Diana said.It was Monday, and Diana was back in school, still a bit sniffly, but otherwise well. They were talking before American history class; it was…

Cassie followed the motion of the crystal. It was pointing upstairs, she decided-the opposite direction led into a wall.”We’d better get out in the open, anyway,” Adam said. “Otherwise we…

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They drove to the school. Despite the tension between them, the night seemed clear and cool and filled with magic, and the gym was transformed. It was so big that…

“You stupid outsider,” Faye screeched, twisting away from Cassie. “It was just getting started-now you’ve ruined everything!”Cassie lay on her back, gasping. Then she pointed shakily, sitting up. “That’s what…

“Cassie? Is that you?”Sick dismay tingled down Cassie’s nerves. Then she heard her own voice saying, as she turned, “I-I was scared … I didn’t want to bother you …”…

“I think,” Melanie said quietly, “that it’s time to talk about the skull. Adam’s never told us exactly how he found it-“”No, you’ve been very secretive about that,” Faye put…

Somewhere on the way downstairs Cassie stopped feeling guilty.She didn’t know exactly how it happened. But it was necessary, if she was going to survive this. She was doing everything…

Fire, Cassie thought. All around her she saw blazing autumn colors. The yellow-orange of sugar maple, the brilliant red of sassafras, the crimson of sumac bushes. It was as if…

Cassie should have pushed him away, should have run from him. Instead, with a gasp, she buried her head in his shoulder, in the comfort of his thick Irish sweater….

The door was no longer tiny but life-size, large enough to go in. It was ajar, and colored light streamed from the other side.Inside the skull, Cassie gazed at the…

It was the size and shape of a human skull, but it seemed to be made entirely of crystal. The moonlight reflected through it, inside it. It had grinning crystal…

Very funny, Cassie thought. But actually it wasn’t funny at all. She guessed that there was a deadly serious side to Faye’s question. Somehow she didn’t see Faye wanting to…

Diana turned sharply to face Deborah. “You can’t interrupt the ritual!””There shouldn’t be a ritual,” Deborah blazed back, her face dark and intense. “You agreed in the meeting – “…

Cassie didn’t know where she was going. The school was trying to hold classes, even though there were probably more kids outside the classrooms than inside. They were in the…

That Friday, Kori came to the back room for lunch. She seemed in awe of the older girls and was even absently respectful of Cassie, which was nice. Certainly Suzan…

The girls who came over were named Laurel and Melanie. Laurel was the girl Cassie had seen in the library with Diana. Up close she was very slim, with light-brown…

“You sent the note,” Cassie said flatly.Faye smiled her slow, terrible smile. “Somehow I didn’t think you’d come if I used my own name,” she said. And I fell for…

The first person Cassie saw at school the next morning was Faye. The tall girl was standing with a group in front of a side entrance that Cassie had been…