The wind swoops over the tenements on Orchard Street, where some of those starry-eyed dreams have died and yet other dreams are being born into squalor and poverty, an uphill climb. It gives a slap...

Love Darren? Of course not. Love is for fools not smart enough to see the path in front of them. That’s the difference between you and I, Ryiah. I see the truth and accept Darren...

One honorable young man can make all the difference…

I don’t know how it happened. Through the din of the crowd, I heard this tiny scream. As small and distant as it was, it was like thunder in my head.’ He looked up at...

I’m afraid.” Olivia to Caleb”Afraid of what?” Caleb.”Of how vulnerable you make me.” Olivia.”I make you vulnerable because you love me. That’s the price you pay for love, baby girl.” Caleb.

All I do when we’re apart is think about you, and all I when we’re together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I’m so out of control, I can’t help myself....

I’m a Red girl in a sea of Silvers and I can’t afford to feel sorry for anyone, least of all the son of a snake.

What do you want to trust me with tonight?”A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorched woman at those words. “Anything,” I whispered back.

There was no gentle way around it – hearts would be broken, relationships would be crushed and I was the messenger.

We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I’d still know you were there.

But in that moment, I didn’t want to be trusted. I wanted something far more primal. I stretched up on my tiptoes and leaned in. I closed my eyes as his scent overcame me. When...

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)

The unknown is scary the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.Maybe I don’t have...

Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.

To know of the existence of evil, true evil that corrupted the world, had forever altered her heart and mind. If she had chosen a different path, she wouldn’t have slept another night. Her head...

It’s a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It’s the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don’t know the name of that fear, but I know I’ve got it, the fear...

You’re easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.

“I’m not going to do it again,” Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. “Never again.”

The others could believe that she was that way because she lost her parents so early, but Peter knew better. She was strong, confident, and never broken.

Can we get out of here?””Your chariot awaits.””In the form of a blue Ford ute?” I curved my brow.”But of course,” he said in an over-the-top French accent.”Sacre blur, bad accent alert!””Wow,” he said, “Le...

With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the...

I didn’t want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough...

Then his lips were on mine and I lost myself, overwhelmed by the surge of Trey’s emotions as they flooded through me. I kissed him back wanting to forget my fear of being discovered of...

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.

No doubt you’ve experienced something similar in books, movies, novels–whatever you use as an excuse to get away, to suspend reality. Literary characters, like these projections, draw you in and cultivate feelings of friendship on...

The Ancestral Trail was split into two-halves of 26 issues each. The first half takes place in the Ancestral World and describes Richard’s struggle to restore good to the world. After the initial international run,...

We all have skeletons in our closets. Some of us are just better at hiding them behind the hangers filled with clothes.” “Yeah, right, you don’t seem like the type of guy who has a...

He runs his hands up my back and into my hair, pulling me closer. I lose myself in the feel of his body against mine and the way his soft lips coax mine to life....

I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I...

My life is hard. No one would rob me of that. The clothes I am wearing came out of a knotted up black plastic trash bag from a resale shop downtown. And not the downtown...

You’re safe now. Remember that. Believe that.

The Dreaming is always; forever… it’s always happening, and us mob, we’re part of it, all the time, everywhere, and every-when too.

In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. – Esme from Sister Mischief

The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They’re lost in the shadows of the moon.

Susie and Pippa clinked their glasses together. I followed suit, but my heart wasn’t in it anymore. It had already left the building.

At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else’s thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away...

I feel the same way. It doesn’t make sense, and I can’t understand it, but maybe emotions aren’t supposed to make sense,” I finally said.One the other line, Mickey blew out a deep breath.”Tomorrow, then.””Tomorrow,”...

But I know not all of us will make it out of here. There is still more pain to come our way, but there is also happiness if we allow for it.

Yes, later.” With that, I waved the team forward.

All I knew was that in a way I couldn’t explain, his hug matched his stare.

Without a torch, I stumbled along the paths. The night was dismal. A partial moon hovered bitter and white on the horizon. It was the perfect night for murder.

It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was…perfect.

Other than the voices in my head, I think I’m pretty normal.

You’ll get fired if anyone finds out about us!””So many rules in this century,” Vane muttered.

I couldn’t escape the hell I was in; the push pull between hot & cold. Neither was better, just two extremes of the same pain.

Aun en aquel estado, en la frontera entre sus dos mundos, Casandra supo que estaba sonriendo. Así que cuando una de aquellas diminutas estrellas se adelantó en su dirección, dejó que su alma la envolviera....

I always wanted a sister who could beat me up.

That’s where they found the skeletons. Right where you’re standing.

No,” she breathes. The smell of her turns to spice, sharp and warm, and I know I’m sensing her now, even through the block in the house.We stand like that for an eternity, still as...