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L ee Ogden couldn’t help but smile.  He breathed in the scent of the mesquite trees beside the old road.  He savored the feeling of the...

A crown of muddy brown water crested the sharp edge of a palm-sized stone, spraying up and out over the placid pond as the rock skipped...

T ae-Jin Yoo stared down at the flat, concrete floor of the Gregg County Aquatic Center swimming pool.  Despite the numerous legs and...

L ee blinked and felt pain.  He glimpsed gleaming white before his eyes were flooded with a flash of blinding stars.  A jarring THUNK...

L ee remembered holding his breath.  A deathly silence had swallowed not just the cramped little study room he was in, but the adjacent...

A nthony breathed in sharply.  He had to fight not to moan. Or at least not moan loud enough for the other passengers to hear.  He looked...

It might have been an eternity. Or it might have been about forty-five seconds.  Either way, Lee wasn’t sure he actually breathed again...

“Are you about ready?” Eighteen-year-old Lee Ogden looked up at the sound of the gravelly voice.  The bus driver was standing next to the...