DOOOOONG! DOOOOONG!    Darrick looked up from the maps he was pouring over as the toll shattered the morning. The bell warned of approaching enemy raiders. He sprinted from the castle keep to

There was once a great and powerful king who ruled over many countries. He had three lead servants that took care of his huge palace. Once the king summoned the three servants and said

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It happened around 8:30 P.M., just as it was getting dark. My family and I were up at a friend’s house having a fall festival. We spent the night talking and, for the kids, playing with

Slap. Scrape. Slap. Scrape. I look at the card I drew, and then I looked at the spoons situated mid-table. I rearrange my cards to make the new card untraceable and then passed it along to

DEAR EDWARD,   I have just been brought ill tidings of a, shall we say, slip of the tongue in the heat of the moment. Come now, boy, surely your intellect is of a higher grade than that. Dear son,

Nothing. Just darkness. The kind that can reach out and grab you, enveloping it you in its grisly grasp. Eight-year-old Ryan McDonnell stood on the top step of the cellar staircase, peering down into the

A hunched, old man sat on a crude chair just outside his front door. His head leaned forward on his bare chest and every few moments a snore could be heard coming from him. His head jerked up when the

“Run!”   The yell startled Dan Sabre out of his nap. The boy of 16 leaped off the Sabre house's front porch. He saw a rider slumped in the saddle approaching as fast as his wounds would allow him.

It was cold. The pale sun was bright but it did little to dissipate the cold that knifed through my exposed skin. Usually, my mom planned zoo days for the middle of summer and I would almost melt like

She burst into the room, removed her mask, and looked for a place to hide the letter. She ripped it out from beneath her bullet-proof vest, fear gripping her.  “They’re coming, Rachel,” said

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“Let’s think about this!”   Noah snorted and looked over his shoulder at his friend.   “Don’t you want to break the bonds of geekdom, Dexter?” he asked in a whisper.   “Well, perhaps,

Prologue On a mountain overlooking the most feared prison for boys in Roebertsberg, a broad-shouldered young man laid prostrate beneath a clump of bushes. Rolfe shuddered when he thought of his stay at

Prologue DCRBOF, Detention Center for Rebellious Boys in Outer Forest, also known as Dekkerbof, was the most dreaded place in every boy’s mind, and even more by the King’s Squire Corps. The Squire Corps

Rebs. Hundreds. Maybe thousands of them. Waves of them surging up the steep incline. Dirch Peters huddled behind a low stone wall, listening to the zing of bullets and the occasional gut-wrenching smack

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Prologue A mounted knight ducked as an arrow flew over his head and stuck in a tree beside him. The battles are getting more heated, he thought, I might need a leave of absence. Lord Fredric (the Braxton)