"Sure," he said, smiling at Phoebe as Marcus was off doing something. It might have been inappropriate but Darren certainly didn't see anything wrong with it. If no one was around to stop them - ! "Yeah, maybe later in the day! That sounds fun." Marcus came back soon enough, plac...

(Darren Fox continued from Meltdown ) Darren shouldn't have nearly as hard as he did. Phoebe presented an interesting point; his father was bald and Darren would have hated losing his hair. His laugh was loud and it hurt his gut. "Can't imagine what my hair would look like," he said after ...

Name: Dolores Agnew Gender: Female Age: 17 Grade: 12th School: Aurora High School Hobbies and Interests: Magic, roleplaying, writing. Appearance: Dolores is not a goth. People simply use the word because they are unable to really describe her any other way. Dark Natured is a better description. The...

"Uhhm." There was a pause. It certainly wasn't awkward, more just to give Ami to analyze everything. Maynard was throwing several things at her at once and, considering her brain was just barely thawing from the cold, it was hard keeping track. "Hey Maynard," Ami found it hard to...

Traversing Seattle always confused Ami Flynn. The mechanics of how places were mapped out made no sense to her. Bustling city blocks, quiet slices of suburbia and dirty landfills and trailer parks, scattered around without any real logic. It always surprised her to find herself lapping along the out...

Each one a little more than he could dare to try. 9:00 AM The announcements happened at Nine Am. Ami remembered this. And, so far as she knew, they arrived on the dot. Ami had her notebook ready, her pen in hand. "Another fine day's work from you all, if a bit lacking compared to the past. We'...

And dad would dream of all the different ways to die. 8:00 AM Ami wasn't playing a game. She was certain of it. Games are built on a stringent set of rules. You can't just knock over the Jenga tower when it's someone else's turn and snatch a win. That would be cheating. So one would think that the ...

And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking. 7:00 AM There were footsteps. Ami stopped on a dime. He went to speak but the stillness had invaded his throat. The smaller boy pulled his legs closer. They were silent again. The footsteps were heading away, towards the stairs. Ami's body ...

Into that secret place where no one dares to go. 6:00 AM It was an accident. She could have handled the situation better but it was an accident. It wasn't like the hundred-plus murders that Ami played no part in. Ami could just as easily forget about Sara Corlett and she wouldn't be tearing herself...

And from above you how I sank into your soul. 5:00 AM She got creative with that one. Wrote it large, underlined, and stuck it right on the center of the chaos. She wanted them to know, not know it all but just enough. Plus. It helped her to get into the right mindset. Every time she started thinki...

As we would lay and learn what each other's bodies were for. 4:00 AM She stopped writing. Writing would imply that she had time for punctuation. She was scribbling, a pen in her hand, another braced against her earlobe. Her mind swam at the same pace as it did at home, connecting the dots that her ...

And dad would throw the garbage all across the floor. 3:00 AM The only way to solve a complex problem is by breaking it all up into manageable parts. Start with the easiest job first. The dangerzones seemed like a perfect place to start. Ami figured that would be the case in finding a pattern in th...

And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder. 2:00 AM The first thing she noticed when she sat up in bed was the silence. No birds, not even white noise, just the void. Even hollow chasm that she called a head was mute. No voices reverberating in the dark. Ami wasn't stupid. Whatever...

In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet. 2:00 PM Ami had trouble keeping her eyes open. Whatever fumes Ami had been running on for the past several days was quickly running out. She could barely keep her eyes open. She needed to sleep and she knew passing out next to an eviscerated corp...

And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees. 1:00 PM Ami started searching from room to room. She didn't know why. It was all useless. She wasn't going to find anything useful. And she didn't. Not really. She found a notebook, stained with dirt and grime from incubation over god knows how ...