My brother wanted to put the blue bird into her casket before they closed the lid. But I wouldn’t let him. I took it out of his hand and held it in mine so he could not slip the small…
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Tommy sat down at the table and looked at his plate. There was meat on it. It looked a lot like his father’s plate. His father had meat on his plate, too. If there was ever meat in the house,…
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CHAPTER I Jessica Jernkins was part troll, only she didn’t know it. Not the kind who lives under bridges and eats stray goats. She would have known that. She wasn’t the fun kind of troll with bright fuzzy hair whose…
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The call came after Poppy left for work that morning, so she missed it. It was in her voice mail when she came home. Poppy hadn’t given up her land line because that was the number her father knew and…