Time was running out. If Yeager and his gang got to the hideout before I did, there’d be the kind of Hell to pay that left nothing but body parts lying around, and the parts would undoubtedly belong to me. . .
Albert Beiman had dreamed of being a super hero all of his life. Like many young boys, he collected comic books containing tales of superpower-wielding men performing amazing acts of courage. He hid the comic from. . .
He was an old man and feeble. Then one day, he awoke in a strange place feeling less old and more like the self he’d known years before. He stood in a brightly lit room with vaguely familiar objects all around him. . .
Jonathon Meyers liked to tease Nancy King, and though she pretended to be bothered by his taunts, Nancy really wasn’t bothered at all. They were at the age when boys and girls begin to notice one another in different. . .
Long ago, it was known as The Mission in the Forest, and people were welcomed with open arms. This was before God’s War when the world was a different place, and the truth about God and Satan was still a mystery over which. . .
Sarah Simpleton was not the least bit pleased by her name, and who could blame her? No matter how often her well-meaning parents (Sally and Sam Simpleton) tried to convince her of the things that could and could not break bones, Sarah was not appeased.
The schoolmate insults leveled at Sarah began as basic chants [...]
It lay on the doorstep of 54 Hulstone Place. Non-descript and brown, the package looked as if it might have been dropped accidentally or tossed aside by a passerby too lazy to find a trash can.
There was no return address, and the edges of the package were worn as if it had had a [...]
Mistakes are a hell of a thing, aren’t they? Without an ample serving of mistakes, there’s no real learning that takes place in life. Of course, some mistakes are so costly, they take life and turn it on its side.
I don’t remember the moment I began to understand the true nature of mistakes, [...]
“Wow—is that?”
“I think so.”
“Is it real?”
“Well, it looks real, I guess. Doncha think it looks real?”
“I dunno. I’ve never seen a real one—only pictures. Have you ever seen a real one?”
“I’d say we both have, now.”
“What’ll we do?”
“Maybe we should hide it.”
“Hide it? Hide it where—and how?”
“I don’t know. But [...]
“Tell me—tell me again, Grandpa!”
The old man looked lovingly at the young boy and smiled.
“Okay. But remember, you can’t tell Grandma you know the true story of Lescott Brown.”
The boy nodded his head, crossed his heart with a somewhat grimy index finger, then sat down on the bench beside his grandfather waiting eagerly for [...]
