The first time the witch asked Marynka to bring her a heart, she had just turned thirteen.
Are you born to be something, or is it your childhood that shapes who you become?
There aren’t many rules of singlehood, but I have made a few for myself in the two (if anyone asks, but really it’s four) years in which I’ve been single.
THERE WAS A STONE under my right buttock, but I didn’t want to move.
Tim Goode grabbed the edge of the desk and pushed his padded chair away from the radar console, rolling it forward and back, bleeding off nervous energy while he took a scant moment to study the electronic blip moving northeast.
Matthew Butler cocked his head to one side, considering the big-boned blonde in front of him.
The dead man lived up the hill. We could have walked, if the world wasn’t ending and we didn’t have to bring him back.
The year Marcie Gill turned ten, three mysterious things happened.
When I got to the gym for basketball tryouts tonight, I counted twenty-eight kids. That meant twenty kids would make one of the two teams, and everyone else would get cut. So I liked my odds.
Max looked at his watch for the umpteenth time since they’d left home. ‘Do you really think this is a good idea?’...
“I swear to God, if we don’t get it this time, I’m going to kill you both.” Cami’s face is red with exertion.
The Pratt & Whitney radial engines rasped and hunted as they struggled to inhale the high-altitude air.
Thank you so much for picking up this book and peeling back the first page to discover its contents.