Camouflage (Preview)
Chapter One [Danilo has been chased down to the river near his school in the European city of Tigue by a couple bullies, teasing him about the suspicion that he's gay. The bullies made a scene in the student center, so Danilo's friends are now texting...
Streams (Chapter 4)
Indeed, when he got back from Samaki's on Sunday, Sal came into his room without knocking. "Hey," he said, leaning against the doorframe. Kory looked up and waited. Sal looked away. "My mom says, uh,...
Streams (Chapter 3)
He stood on his front walk, listening to the fan in the car engine. Crickets chirped nearby. Otherwise, his suburban street had settled in for the night, at the late hour of 9:32, by his cell phone. Slowly, his heartbeat eased....
Streams (Chapter 2)
At the Rainbow Center the next morning, Margo greeted them with a grim expression. "Jeremy's mother was here yesterday with her sister. She wants to take him to this religious camp that tries to make kids straight. I don't know...
Streams (Chapter 1)
In the oppressive heat of August, Kory felt uncomfortable any time he wasn't swimming. While he loved to be in the water, he didn't particularly like having it dropped onto him, nor did he like the thunder and lightning that...
New World Order
They'd started with schnapps and moved on to beer, and Vinny was buzzed but not drunk yet, or at least, if he were drunk, he wasn't stinking drunk, though he knew Drew would say he was. Drew never missed a chance at a skunk joke, and Vinny could never...
Ashley
There was once a family of foxes and they lived in a comfortable house on a hill in Eaglecrest, within view of the sparkling glass towers of Millenport. The house belonged to the mother's family, who had never liked the father, and so when the mother...
In The Closet
The maple trees around the field behind Carter High blazed with red and gold, but the only red and gold Raz saw was the tight gold shirt and high red shorts on Dean Croft, the muscular wolverine who played first base for the Carter High baseball...
Sell Me
Hey! Over here. Have a seat. Good to see you. How you liking your first month at the Circus? Good. What's your poison? Ha ha! You don't have to order what I'm drinking, kid. You sure? Okay. Hey, Mac. Two more of these. I'll buy his, the...
Connections, Parts 2 and 3
2 It had been a long time since Tech E. Coyote had woken up in someone else's bed, much less with the bed's owner still in it. He yawned, stretched, and froze when his paw brushed feathers. ...
Jacks To Open
When you think of Las Vegas, you think of the flash, the glitter, the sparkle, the neon, the light. But there's another Las Vegas, too, if you go behind the Strip, behind the standalone casinos scattered through the town at Suncoast, Boulder Station,...
Connections, Part 1
Ever since the meteor had struck Acmetropolis, Tech E. Coyote had found the process of inventing to be a strange one. He was seeing pathways and connections he'd never figured out before, and they always, always worked. It was as if someone had taken...