The needle past through thin fingers, the red thread gleamed against light blue cloth. The smiling black threaded mouth was slowly covered by red, appearing as if the mouth was sewn together. Multi-colored eyes continued to stare uncaringly at the small doll held within his palm. With a quick movement, the thread was tied and cut, leaving a light ( Read more... )

Sai had always liked admiring Kazuo’s eyes, how they sparkled almost all the time even if he wasn’t happy. The taller teen was enjoyable to be with as his personality was different from what he was used to. Bubbly, enthusiastic, not at all timid, and unbelievably naive ( Read more... )

She felt as though everything was crumbling from around her. Her parents, her wonderful parents were gone; her friends had scattered as she raced away from the threat, away and into her. The water reached her knees as she called for the one that held her heart. Time passed agonizingly slow as she waited with baited breath; terrified that the larger ( Read more... )

Something was due to explode at some point ( Read more... )

He took his position seriously, guarding the main entrance to the territory day in and day out ( Read more... )

Glancing up from his book, Norway glanced at the two nations situated across from each other before shifting to look at the chess board where a stalemate had occurred. If he didn’t know which nation had picked their pieces, the humming coming from Italy easily gave away that he was just waiting for England to make a move that would end in failure ( Read more... )

The large Thoroughbred - was he even a Thoroughbred? The black stallion seemed too huge to be one - was at least tolerant to its keepers, until the Shetland from the next field ambled over. All the handlers knew that once Sleepy Sandy entered the area, to drop what they were doing and practically hightail it out of there before Pitch registered the ( Read more... )

A howl of joy echoed through the air as they rushed along the bank ( Read more... )

They couldn’t have been more different in many aspects ( Read more... )

“Did you seriously just say that ( Read more... )