Literature

Angel’s voice was taut but calm. (Pick up a pen from the counter. The black one’s fine. Now-let go. Justrelax and let me move it.) Gillian let go. It was…

“But only if you absolutely swear to me you didn’t do it.””Oh, how many times? I’ve been telling you all week I didn’t. I never said a word to her….

It was David, of course.Gillian turned around and stared at him, blinking. He was standing just inside the doorway, his jacket slung over one shoulder, the other hand in his…

Gillian stood perfectly still and watched David disappear around a corner.(It’s not time for the plan yet, kid. Now buck up. A cheery face is worth diamonds.) Gillian tried to…

Gillian felt triumph, wild excitement-and something deeper. An emotion she couldn’t describe becausethere weren’t any ordinary words for it. David was looking at her, and it was almost as if…

Your hair!” Amy screamed. “Gillian, your hair! What did you do to it?”Amy’s own hair was short, cropped close in back and full in front. She had large, limpid blue…

Actually, it wasn’t the light she noticed first. It was an eerie feeling that some… presence was in herroom with her. She’d had the feeling before, waking up to feel…

He went on driving. He didn’t even pause. “We’re almost home.”They were nearing the turn ontoMeadowcroft Road . Gillian tried to grab for one of the brown hands on the…

first it looked like a speck, then like an insect on a lightbulb, then like a kite. Gillian watched, toofrightened to run, until it got close enough for her to…

Everything was freezing confusion. Her head was under water and she was being tumbled over andover. She couldn’t see, couldn’t breathe, and she was completely disoriented. Then her head popped…

Gillian Lennox didn’t mean to die that day.She was mad, though. Mad because she had missed her ride home from school, and because she was cold, and because it was…

They walked out to Eric’s jeep. The night air was very cold and there was no moon.Thea kept her hand on Eric’s back, ready to press if he hesitated. But…

Thea started to let go of Eric. She could still try to save him.But he wouldn’t let go. And her own instincts told her to hold on to him. They…

Thea.” Dani was shaking her arm. ‘They’re talking to you.”The visions were gone. Thea was standing in Gran’s workshop, seeing everything as if through a distorting lens. People’s faces seemed…

INTRODUCTION The traditional focus on individual impairment has been broadened by the modern concepts of disability to one that recognizes that the effect of impairment is not only dependent on…

Every week passed more or less quietly. Grandma Harman came home, her cough better. She didn’t seem to notice anything different about Thea.Night came earlier, and everyone at school talked…

You know, he probably only loved you because of the yemonja,” Blaise said.Thea looked up from her seat in the empty chemistry lab. It was morning break, and this was…

Fhea settled on the box springs, not the most comfortable seat. “Now, this all happened back in the days when there was still magic, okay? And Helle-wise could do magic,…

I don’t understand,” Eric said pitifully as Thea towed him toward the bleachers.”Well, that’s reasonable.” “Blaise wants to talk to me alone and you want me to do it.” “That’s…

Introduction The aim behind this essay is to ascertain the stance adopted by the UK in terms of how governmental and judiciary authorities deal with the problem of juvenile crime….