Swimming Lessons
Learning to swim was just about the hardest thing Agnes had ever attempted. Weeks before, ...
Wallace's feet were incredibly painful. He imagined big blisters that covered his foot from toe to heel. Each step he took felt more agonizing than the last. The pain he felt now was far worse than when he was out in the desert camping with his parents and he'd stepped in the fire ant nest. What else could he do but walk? The car was several miles back on the desert highway with the engine seized up as if it had lockjaw. He thought about taking off the thin little slippers he was wearing; they were fashionable but incapable of protecting him from the scorching pavement. He wondered how long it would take for a car to pass by. None had in the last hour that he had been walking. He didn't even have his cell phone as usual, since he was on his way back to Christy's to pick it up. He would've been happy for just a little shade, but the cacti didn't cast enough to cover him.
Learning to swim was just about the hardest thing Agnes had ever attempted. Weeks before, ...
Milton the mouse hated the Lang's cat. It was big and yellow. All that cat did the who...
The only thing that made noise was the steady hum of his car. He had been driving most of ...