I slid down the ramp to my yard. From now on, it was the only way to go. When I flopped on the grass, I looked up to see the pirates casting off the lines and shoving off already. At least, they had gotten me home. “Bon voyage,” I yelled from the yard as I …
He’ll go where your courage goes. That’s where you’ll always find him. What in the world does that even mean? Why does everyone want to talk so fuzzy around here and expect me to know what they’re talking about? “Will you stop all that thinking?” Mikayla suddenly blurted out, jerking me out of my rant. …
My mind had been in a world of its own all day. I wasn’t quite sure where it had been or what I had been doing. But I know that milk doesn’t go in the cabinet, and empty bowls don’t go in the refrigerator. So, my mind was somewhere else while I was going through …
Krista was feeling a little restless on a nice sunny morning. She had a few hours to kill before Maggie would call her in to do her schoolwork. Because of being homeschooled, the farmhouse, the yard, and the Rappahannock River in the Great Beyond, as she liked to call it, were all she knew of …
The river wrote its name on me a long time ago. Not with a pen. With rocks, cold shock, and that deep, thunder-in-your-ribs sound you feel before you hear. The Rappahannock River signed me in permanent ink. Back then we were a crew of water-dumb kids who thought gravity was a dare. We’d climb, count, …