Entertainment Teens September 2017

shushed Bryce. He grabbed the remote control for the television and hit the power button and the down volume button in quick suc ...

you’re so cool because you know what masturbating is and you cyber and stuff. But I bet you don’t know what 69 means.” Bryce sai ...

“It’s my fault, Mr. Harver,” Justin said. Henry’s father looked at Justin, then at Henry, and then at Bryce lying in his sleepin ...

“Is it a real thing?” “Yeah. Corey said so. But I don’t know what he was talking about. He just drew the number and kept pointin ...

Nick Holdstock The False River Number of this bus: the 6838, which starts in L.A. and runs to Sacramento. Number of passengers: ...

his lap. For safety reasons, the latter was asked to desist, at first in a firm though friendly manner, then (on the second occa ...

Number of times the woman with hair you really have to call golden (whose name, according to the manifest, is Dominique Stitz) h ...

awkward pause, it will all come out. The months of suspicion; the affair; the divorce. What Charmaine said in court. Then it wil ...

Number of miles to Modesto: 5. Number of times Dominique has laughed: 11. Which, like the number 9, is not a good number for me. ...

Hector is behind the counter, tossing bits of chicken. As I approach he turns and reaches for the coffee pot. “Steven,” he says ...

nothing of sadness. Who probably believes that books can offer better worlds. The last book I managed to finish was a children’s ...

Number of miles to the San Joaquin bridge: 10. I push on the gas. The needle glides from 50 to 60. Dominique’s head stays down. ...

And so I wrench the wheel to the right, step hard on the brake. But this is too little, too late. We hit the side at 45 and ther ...

Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois Astronomy I was born in the Bronx, our building destined to become a burned-out tenement populated ...

Key West. Our housed teemed with cockroaches, lizards and our kids’ friends, Caribes, Cubans, Conchs, but even in “Paradise” bos ...

In Venice, scientists meet to discuss how Mars was the “in” place to kick-start life billions of years ago. Atoms came together, ...

Lauren Beukes Branded We were at Stones, playing pool, drinking, goofing around, maybe hoping to score a little sugar, when Kend ...

Anyone else but Ten woulda racked ‘em hard, woulda slammed those balls on the table, eish. But Ten, Ten went the other way. Just ...

Another stripe down and boy lined up a fifth blocking the corner pocket. “You’re up.” Girl just stood there lookin’ as if she wa ...

like. Lethe or supersmack or kitty. Some prefer it old-style, pills ‘n needles, but me, the works work best straight in through ...