Excerpts Novels & Stories

She asked, still biting her lip in an anxious manner. "Last period," he grinned. "Procrastination at it's finest." Annie paused for a moment before she started flipping through her notebook. She then turned her notebook towards him, "Here. It's this one right?" Leo looked down at the papers before giving her an odd look, "Yeah, why?" She shrugged, "You can use it, if you want. It'll save you time. I mean, considering the science junkie you are, I'm sure you know all of it anyways."

I didn't want to go any closer to it, but it was as though I was being called into the room. Out of curiosity, I went closer to it. I slowly pushed the door open, the creaking sound echoing through the room. The moment I got inside, I stood in amazement. It was a room filled with books—more like a study room for him. Caleb never had any of these. He never let me read, either. So seeing this made me feel a sudden sense of excitement, but too bad I was going to leave them all behind. I turned to leave the room after a few seconds to head back to the living room, but at that moment, something shiny, made of transparent glass, caught my attention.

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It was like they had known each other forever. Kate was also thrilled by the little notes (not SMS) that Ecto wrote her whenever. With typical Ecto magic, he had hijacked the Notes app of her phone. Her jealous friends teased her non-stop for “texting” her college sophomore boyfriend and grinning like a kid on Christmas Day all the time. Ecto’s notes were simple reminders not to forget lunch or dinner, beautiful photos of travel destinations in and out of the country, or a beautiful word Ecto learned on the web and wanted to share with her such as “petrichor,” “serendipity,” “wanderlust,” “soliloquy” and “nychthemeron”.

I laughed out loud at the last sentence. "Oh hell no. I'm good. You have only seen Adds during a good period. When they are babies its hell. Especially teething at 3am. No sleep. Breastfeeding every 2 hours." I exclaimed. I didn't even feel Adaline pulling on my skirt. "MOMMY I'M HUNGRY!!!" she exclaimed making us both jump. I didnt even realize we had gotten so close to each others face. A loud WOOHOO came from behind us as Damion and Jessica strolled up behind. "You ass." I mumbled to Damion.

At seeing her cry over him. I wasn’t even thinking, my body just moved. They had all been so kind to me. I knelt on the other side of Brad. Once beside him I ripped away the gauze and bandages on his chest. Then I pushed my hands into his wounds. My fingers touched the bone, muscle, and organs inside him. The rushing sound got stronger and so did the pain I felt from him. I could feel his lungs fluttering against my fingers and his thick hot blood pooled around me. I felt myself pulling his blood into me. I saw it travel up my arms like veins on the outside of my skin until I had absorbed it all. Then I pushed it all back into him and as I did his lungs reinflated, the arteries closed, I fel

I say deflating in seconds. After a short cab ride, all three of us are standing at the ruins of a blown-up bus, although there are nobodies lying around on the street you can still see the bloodstains from where they were, the whole area has been cordoned off, there are still police and investigators looking around so there's not much chance of us being able to get near the site without being spotted, I stand at the edge of the tape, close my eyes and take in as much air as I can, I breathe deeply trying to concentrate on the smell around me but all I'm getting is the scent of the humans around me and burnt remains of the explosion

Wordlessly, she watched as the tapestries and the bloodstone turned into a handful of ash. One day before departure, Seraphina printed out the screenshots of Rayna's messages and the photos she sent over the past few days. There were photos of Caelum shirtless and holding Rayna, whose neck was covered in kiss marks. In some photos, Liam leaned against Rayna, gazing at her with admiration, as she read him a bedtime story. Some even showed the three of them wearing matching cartoon headbands at an amusement park. Seraphina thought her heart would break all over again. But when she looked at the photos, all she felt was calm.

I look back at my case study options and I add a fourth one and then immediately cross it out before I can finish writing it. But the two words are still visible under the single line. False testimony.

In the shape of a key. I reached into my pocket, and extracted the key the small key to the Vincent house. I held it up and looked at Caleb. He nodded back. I slipped it inside, and it fit perfectly. We looked at each other, dumbfounded. I turned the key, and it clicked. A small compartment opened in the wall of the rock. I reached in and extracted it. It was a scroll. Torn in half. We both looked at each other, speechless. It was the second half of the scroll.