Young Adult
New Girl: Chapter Nine
Lucita was doodling his name again. Sitting in Algebra I was boring the hell out of her. She already knew this, and had the school just accepted her homeschooling paperwork, they would know she was smarter than this. She needed to get out.
By Cyn's Workshop2 years ago in Chapters
New Girl: Chapter Eight
Rebecca made her way to class, her bag strapped closely to her back, thinking back to Lucita and Cyrus and their strange relationship. It only made her think about the similarities she had with Blake. Except Blake would probably never put an arm around her possessively or look at her like Cyrus had looked at Luci. Even though it was obvious he was in complete denial of his feelings for her, Becca had seen it.
By Cyn's Workshop2 years ago in Chapters
Smartystan
Winnington walked the streets of what once was officially called Wilmington, Delaware. He shoved his hands in his pockets and braved the damp spring air which blew with an unseasonable chill. He looked down at his sneakers and kept a swift gait. What made the trek all the more important remained the fact that he sprinted towards something, not away from it. Once he found his apartment, he knew he could find solace and regroup.
By Skyler Saunders2 years ago in Chapters
Managing Difficult Personalities with Ease
Imagine you're in a conversation with someone you find difficult. As the discussion heats up, you feel your palms sweating, your breath shortening, and your anger rising. Eventually, you decide to walk away, but as you leave, you think of the perfect comeback you should have said.
By Joseph Villarito Canete2 years ago in Chapters
Smartystan
With the publishing house secured, Dr. Strong felt the cool feeling of victory. It wasn’t like he had vanquished an enemy. This was a quiet, calm way of understanding the business of publishing. This Monday morning, he organized an in-person meeting with the Founders. It took him about four hours to gather his notes and what he wanted to present to the board. As the captain of the ship, he knew he had to continue to fulfill his role. In creating a momentous occasion out of something mundane as a business meeting, Dr. Strong knew he could keep the party going. Business meetings seemed fun to the Founders. They weren’t gray, drab motions of mouthing off figures from spreadsheets. All of them became engaged and prompt.
By Skyler Saunders2 years ago in Chapters
Smartystan
What Belinda wanted most from the work she performed lay in always beating herself. She didn’t consider any competitor as such and always looked at her work with the most critical eye. Now it was no different. She inspected the learned machines. Hours poured into making them as perfect as possible. To say she was obsessed would have been an understatement. Bordering on manic, she pushed her engineers to work nineteen hour days. It wasn’t like she had her plush bed from home to nap in, either. Right under one of the desks in her office, not even in her own corner office, but just a random one, she stuck a pot of coffee and paper cups on the tabletop. She slid under the desk and slept for four hours. Rocketing out of sleep, she sipped coffee and chewed espresso beans and returned to work.
By Skyler Saunders2 years ago in Chapters
Linus
June 4 2023 LINUS I opened my eyes one at a time and the sun was so bright so I had to squint a little but it also feels so warm and soft on my skin and I rolled around in the grass on my back with my feet in the air and everything felt light and weightless and like I was floating but I wasn’t because I was on the grass but that is how light I felt and when I jumped up so so fast and nothing ached and I was so strong so I started running in circles and noticed I was in a big green field and so I ran as fast as I could to the other side of it and I was as fast as the wind blows and the wind blew my ears back like in a car but it was because I was so fast, and when I got to the other side of the field I turned around and ran back to where I started and again I was so fast, maybe even faster than the first time, faster than I ever ran after a frisbee which I thought was impossible but I was running as fast as the wind and when I got to the other side, to the spot I woke up from my nap, there was a field of carrots which was wonderful because I love carrots and I thought this must be what Heaven is like, filled with carrot snacks and a body that is light and I thought “how do I know what Heaven is?” and I just knew that there was a place after the world with my people but before I could think about it too long a rabbit raced across my path and I could tell it wanted me to follow it so I chased the rabbit over a hill and then chased it more up to the top of the highest mountain and the rabbit disappeared and the sun was really close to my face and I closed my eyes to soak the sunbeam into my bones even though they didn’t hurt anymore, and when I opened them this time, the whole sky was dark except for way far away where it was bright, and there was a rainbow. I wanted to go towards the rainbow even though it was dark it felt safe-dark so I started walking but slowly, not like the wind but like when I stop to sniff everything on a walk with Mom or Big Guy. But I kept walking, and the rainbow didn’t get closer and the hill didn’t get further so it stayed the same distance ahead and behind and then the rabbit showed up again so this time I did not chase it but instead I crouched down really low to the ground so I could look in its eyes as best as I could and I moved slowly so that I didn’t startle him and he wiggled his little rabbit nose and so I showed him I could wag my tail but I think he already knew that and he came closer and then closer and then he whispered in my ear. He told me many secrets about the world with people in it and about my body and what was happening, and he told me secrets about this place with the rainbows and the grass and the carrots and the wind that carries me and smells like the waves I like to splash in and I understood and felt sad and happy all at the same time. The rabbit whispered one more thing in my ear before he turned into a ball of glowing light and floated away in sparkling dust made of stars, he told me to call out a name. I didn’t understand why but I trusted this rabbit so I did what he said and I stood up tall on the mountain side with the rainbow in front of me and the field of carrots behind me and I got puffed up really big and as loud as I could, I called out a name. I heard it echo as far as the rainbow and beyond, and in all the spaces that are dark and light. I called out a name, and that name was Charlie.
By Morgan Longford2 years ago in Chapters
