The night’s air bites harder now, its teeth sharper to cut to the bone. A starry sky watches from above, and below bricks hold me. Propped against the stone wall of a building, my tired eyes open to Kym’s worried face. She crouches before me, her dark eyebrows scrunched up. “Hey, you.” She lets aContinue reading “Rokkoh and the Final Year, Chapter 6”
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Rokkoh and the Final Year, Chapter 4
A carriage waits outside the Tower. Two young adults, a boy and girl whose names always escape me, stand at its backend. Two dozen pairs of eyes drink in their uncertainty and fear as the two of them adjust the bags on their backs. Most of us older kids have taken this spot at theContinue reading “Rokkoh and the Final Year, Chapter 4”
Tyler Gohde 