The stupid cat just wouldn't leave me alone. I'm sitting there on my front porch, enjoying my morning coffee before I go into work, and this orange tabby just. appears. At the fence line of my property.

Ezra held the dented peach can like it was gold. "You sure about this?" His sister Naya was already reaching for the can opener. "We could just—" "No." He gripped the can

The fire crackled between us, shadows dancing on Nolan's furrowed face as he pulled out that mysterious bottle again. Third time in an hour. "Gonna tell me what's wrong with you or we just sit here

Lena knew something was wrong when she woke up Tuesday morning feeling like she'd been run over by a truck. Well, maybe not a truck. More like a really heavy bicycle. She'd been pushing herself pretty

"You can't tell anybody what I'm going to show you." Becca no longer stirred the mac and cheese and looked at her grandmother. Nana was sitting at the table in the kitchen with this odd expression

"You sure about this, Vel?" Velma looked down at the shovel in her hands. Metal was cold against her palms and blisters were already forming. Before her, the old cemetery stretched away like

"I'm telling you, the rabbits said they'd help us find it," Isby said, kneeling over the garden fence. Her sister Penny rolled her eyes. "Right. The rabbits!!" "They did! They

"Yes!" The word hung in the air like a balloon let off too early. Dexter just froze, one knee still on the sand, his hand still wrapped around his shoelace. He looked up at me with this expression

"You're telling me we can't get coffee beans from Colombia anymore?" Ezra dropped the invoice on his desk and looked at his business partner like she'd just told him aliens were real. Which honestly

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The shovel was more heavily weighted than it should have been. Caleb swiped sweat from his forehead using the back of his dirty hand, leaving a brown smudge across his skin. Three feet and nothing yet

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"Dad, you have to promise me you won't laser beam him or anything." I nearly choked on coffee. Sixteen years of raising Zara, and she still managed to surprise me. My daughter stood in the kitchen

Image generated by Meta AI I wake up and my first thing is: where's my phone? Not "where am I" or "how did I get here." Where's my damn phone? Because that's what I've turned into now,

"You sure about this, Your Majesty?" King Aldric looked up from his breakfast - cold porridge once again, nobody went to the trouble of heating it any more - and nodded at his councillor. "Yeah,

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The guy was going to jump. I could tell by the way he gripped the stone ledge, his whole body shaking like a leaf in winter. "Hey!" I yelled, my voice reverberating off the old railway arch above

"Come on, Theo, I'm just saying that maybe you need to try harder to relate to people." I stopped halfway through a bite of my sandwich and gazed at my sister across the counter table in the

Dylan was already halfway through my fridge when I walked into the kitchen. "Seriously?" I said, watching him pull out leftover pizza like he owned the place. He looked up with that grin. The

The finger rolled under the dessert table like it had somewhere important to be. Honestly, I should've seen this coming. When your catering business is called "Bite-Sized Dreams" and you're serving