Crown’s Plank (ten) To The Stream
Tobi turned to the others and swept her eyes over them, daring them to hurt her with their contempt. “I’m sorry guys, I guess because of me we don’t get to go to… Continue reading
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Crown’s Plank (nine) Guise of Strength
Tobi heard whispering coming from the other girls. They had gathered in the living room, beside the stairs, in a huddle where they waited anxiously to see what would happen next. Instantly, rage… Continue reading
Crown’s Plank (eight) Translucent Cubes
Tobi could sense Miss Antonina inwardly shouting for obedience as she stood before her at the top of the stairs. She tried to keep her lids from closing as she raised her chin… Continue reading
Crown’s Plank (seven) Dissecting Leer
Despite her frantic search, Tobi could find nothing with which to unleash her demons. Each individual second spent with her own lies burrowed itself savagely into her skin like a bloodthirsty parasite. She… Continue reading
Crown’s Plank (six) Shanty Town Floor
The conversation looped. Each time it thrummed inside Tobi’s skull, her grief slipped a little further back to make way for her fury. Her breathing became labored and erratic, her eyes scanning the… Continue reading
Crown’s Plank (five) Submitting to Memory
The thought of her father brought with it, as always, crippling desolation. Tobi’s grief over her father was such that she had not cried for him once since he had died. Her heartache… Continue reading
Crown’s Plank (four) Luminous Cries
Typically, these groups were held indoors. Unless… a penance was necessary. Breach of the rules at Crown’s Plank had many consequences, each depended on the infraction and the example that was to be… Continue reading
Crown’s Plank (three) Compulsion
Tobi wondered what time it was. She dared not move from her seat to ask. She had already learned the painful lesson that getting up and speaking were not options and that if… Continue reading
Crown’s Plank (two) The Labyrinth and Midnight
Tobi’s past constructed itself as a labyrinth in her mind. This labyrinth was in constant twilight with wind that whipped tall, evergreen hedges that made up the walls of its gnarled pathways. She… Continue reading