My daughter asked me to read her a bedtime story, about a princess with a young heart and is carefree, Who lives in a world with happiness and glee.   How can I tell her that the world is not what she thinks it is. It’s cruel....

Quick as a deluge, the Hellcat’s rims revolved to escape persecution. In the swift sedan sat three humble compadres, Marley — driving, Kuti — in the passenger seat, and Deepak in the back. Trailing them like hounds...

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Ruby had claimed that it would be easy. Ben could get them a car and they’d be gone before the first “bonding” activity began. “Ruby had been the one to sign them up for a leadership...

The Pinto lurched and creaked as it trudged through the marsh, the watery mud darkening the brown of the hull. The trailing wind swept through in short, lingering passages, a faint scent of lavender and pine accompanying each...

I could see her through the window. She had no clue what she was getting herself into. For when she left behind the safety of her Porsche and her friends that silently awaited her, to explore the dank, dark, boulevards under the...

Car wheels screamed against asphalt road. Allie laid in the trunk of a ran-down minivan, trying to position himself in such a way that would save his arms from being dislocated by the jolting of the road. The floor was padded...