"Where we going, George? You never told me where we was go'in." "Steady yerself Jer, 'ol buddy 'ol pal. We're just going over by that...

"Don't look up, Freddie." "But why, momma?" "Keep your head down, son." "Momma?" "Shh... It'll be over soon." A distant voice rasped and...

In hindsight, it probably wasn't a good idea to be crouched in the bushes. At midnight. Waiting for some Peeping Tom rumored to be...

"SANDYYYY!" broke through the summer haze. High and reaching, I heard it again, "SANDYYYY!" as I tried to concentrate on the lecture of...

"Lucas, it's that time of year," his mother's voice trailed off as she stepped into his room, a galvanized steel bucket swinging from one...

"Jen," Amy's voice echoed like she was speaking through a tin can, all distant and echoey, "have you found your bike?" Moving the orange...

"Ma! Gramp's won't stop snoring." "Hester, for the umpteenth time, turn off the lights and go to sleep." "I can't, Gramp's is snoring."...

My name is Lucas, but momma calls me Little Papa. I'm six years old, but momma says I'm six going on sixteen. I have two brothers Aiden...

Aiden closed the front door with a bang. Dragging his coat and feet across the floor, he slumped his way into the kitchen. His mother...

"Aren't you pretty, I love how you're standing in the perfect patch of sunlight. Here let me get you some water," the gnome rushed off...

A tiny sprig of a gnome lifted the last radish from his vegetable patch and placed it with care on top of a large pile of produce already...

Def Leppard was a low hanging murmur in the crowded basement, competing with laughter, footsteps thudding up and down the single panel...

“Shut it, Georgie.” “Tell me why, an I might.” “It’s me mum’s last onion, yeah, so shut it.” Georgie let the lid of the bread box snap...

"Today's the day, Bosco 'ole boy," the gnome picked up a spade and twirled it between his fingers, his pet hedgehog an unconcerned lump...

"Captain, what do you do when you're not ferrying people around? That is..." Young raised an eyebrow in the Captain's direction as he...

“Harper, I don’t think we should…” “Do you want Magda to get her boastful hands on the League of Laurels before you?” “Of course not, I…”...

"Mom, we got to talk." Pepper's mom pushed aside her breakfast of lukewarm coffee and settled her arms on the kitchen table, her glasses...

"I knew I should have rolled over and ignored you when you said, 'Let's raid the pantry, I'm hungry'. I thought you meant Matron River's...

Every now and again, the urge to craft smacks me in the face and says "Hi, how are ya". I'm pretty sure this need to be creative is one...

"Eric," Everly groaned in exasperartion as she snapped the book she had been reading closed, and jumped down from where she had been...