The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland rediscovered this fact the summer of her tenth year. She'd fallen into a troubled sleep plagued by nightmares, wrapped in her beaten up Red Sox jersey with the faded 36 Gordon on the back and a pair of red cotton shorts in a bed on an island that was no place ( Read more... )

Trisha had never been a late sleeper and living in the Compound where things were never quiet only encouraged her to be late to bed(when she could get away with it) and early to rise. Most nights she didn't sleep very well anyhow, so what was the point of going to bed early? When Trisha, hair in braids, hat on, and with a fully provisioned backpack ( Read more... )

Post for the "Between the Lines" meme. From the instructions:

What this meme is all about is expanding on that, to better create a personal history that you can then use to better build personal development. To paraphrase Lindsay, "it's not intended to be a way of avoiding/handwaving actual threads but rather a way of kickstarting them and getting ( Read more... )