author - "Judy Colella"
Public bathrooms can provide an avant-garde forum for those who were never allowed to write on the walls at home. They can also be home to other kinds of writers.
"Vindicta" - The Latin word for "revenge," this was the very thing Brother Bayard needed to soothe his fury over an act of violence perpetrated on a member of his family. His "spiritual" brothers, he knew, would never understand nor condone what he was planning, which made it necessary for him to act in secret - until something unexpected made him take another look. After all, "vindicta" also means "vindication." But whether or not he ultimately changed his plans can only be discovered upon reading the story of this monk's journey into darkness.
Grandpa was getting old. He was doing strange things. But were they really all that strange? To others, perhaps, but Grandpa had always had his reasons...
All she wanted was to finish reading what had so far been an awesome story. But that simply wasn't to be. What to do? A tale of the deep frustration and time limits.
Kyva and Dia, twins born at the dawn of a terrible dark age for their people, find themselves having to flee their home world. Desperate to be safe, fearful of what the authorities will do to them if they stay, they not only leave the planet, but escape through a wormhole to a virtually unexplored sector of the universe. When they find a planet that will support life, something goes wrong. Their ship loses control and they crash into a forest. They survive the violent landing, only to discover that while the air is breathable, it's almost too rich for their bodies to process. But it also looks like this is going to be their new home. Determined to survive and thrive on this new world, the twins embark on an adventure unlike any they'd ever imagined.
Shasta Darby is in high school. She owns a car that has its own ideas about when and how to run, a single mom with a geeky boyfriend, and a somewhat crazy friend named Gina. Twenty-three days into her senior year, the bullies and nasties she'd been able to avoid until then suddenly decide she's worth their attention. This has a kind of domino effect, causing other people - and specifically a boy-people - to start noticing her as well.
Something was in their house. Something that didn't belong there. Reva and her brother Troy didn't hang around to see what it was. They went upstairs and hid in a closet. Waiting. Terrified. And then...
Various moments in life give us a variety of perspectives. Here are some that have come and gone, and may well have meant more then than now.
We've all had to learn various laws of nature, like the Law of Gravity, for instance. One of the biggest was Sir Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion. But are these so-called Laws really on the level? Is it possible Mr. Newton was full of it? That his Laws were simply a cover for something else? This, er, thesis of mine addresses that very issue, based on my observations about how things REALLY work.
Public bathrooms can provide an avant-garde forum for those who were never allowed to write on the walls at home. They can also be home to other kinds of writers.
"Vindicta" - The Latin word for "revenge," this was the very thing Brother Bayard needed to soothe his fury over an act of violence perpetrated on a member of his family. His "spiritual" brothers, he knew, would never understand nor condone what he was planning, which made it necessary for him to act in secret - until something unexpected made him take another look. After all, "vindicta" also means "vindication." But whether or not he ultimately changed his plans can only be discovered upon reading the story of this monk's journey into darkness.
Grandpa was getting old. He was doing strange things. But were they really all that strange? To others, perhaps, but Grandpa had always had his reasons...
All she wanted was to finish reading what had so far been an awesome story. But that simply wasn't to be. What to do? A tale of the deep frustration and time limits.
Kyva and Dia, twins born at the dawn of a terrible dark age for their people, find themselves having to flee their home world. Desperate to be safe, fearful of what the authorities will do to them if they stay, they not only leave the planet, but escape through a wormhole to a virtually unexplored sector of the universe. When they find a planet that will support life, something goes wrong. Their ship loses control and they crash into a forest. They survive the violent landing, only to discover that while the air is breathable, it's almost too rich for their bodies to process. But it also looks like this is going to be their new home. Determined to survive and thrive on this new world, the twins embark on an adventure unlike any they'd ever imagined.
Shasta Darby is in high school. She owns a car that has its own ideas about when and how to run, a single mom with a geeky boyfriend, and a somewhat crazy friend named Gina. Twenty-three days into her senior year, the bullies and nasties she'd been able to avoid until then suddenly decide she's worth their attention. This has a kind of domino effect, causing other people - and specifically a boy-people - to start noticing her as well.
Something was in their house. Something that didn't belong there. Reva and her brother Troy didn't hang around to see what it was. They went upstairs and hid in a closet. Waiting. Terrified. And then...
Various moments in life give us a variety of perspectives. Here are some that have come and gone, and may well have meant more then than now.
We've all had to learn various laws of nature, like the Law of Gravity, for instance. One of the biggest was Sir Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion. But are these so-called Laws really on the level? Is it possible Mr. Newton was full of it? That his Laws were simply a cover for something else? This, er, thesis of mine addresses that very issue, based on my observations about how things REALLY work.