Adah knew that there was some place she had to be today. She had to be at the clinic place, not for all the usual tests or anything, but because she actually got to play doctor. There was, of course, a problem in all of this, and that was walking. Even just rolling out of the bed without the aid of her sisters had been tricky, not to mention ( Read more... )

Massive swarms of people, toiling, roiling around like the fire ants that nipped her heels, swarmed her stomach, tried to force into her mouth as the sea of them flooded over her helplessness. Those insects, so many of them yet so small, roared, as those people on the lawn roared with their chatter. Adah felt like she'd never seen so many people ( Read more... )