5th
Excerpt
from: The Enterprise Wasn’t There
“No one has seen anything
unusual.”
Kirk could see that he was
holding something back. “You have found something, just not unusual?”
“Yes, sir,” Sulu
reported. “A visiting child is wandering the countryside, but we’re unsure
whether that has anything to do with the energy reading.”
Words: 46
Excerpt
from: On An Alien Beach
“Yes.
Surfing came to Trill late last century,” Barnes answered. “Our oceans may be
purple, but they work the same as Earth’s.”
“Sounds
good,” Boimler said.
“So,
surfing,” Mariner said as she came up to them.
Words:
36
Excerpt
from: Spider Quinn
She
swung down in front of one of them. “Hello!”
“SpiderGirl!
I didn’t do anything!” a blonde girl said.
“Then
why did you run?”
“There
have been rumors going around school about you.”
“Really?”
SpiderGirl asked. She could think of one source right off the bat.
“Yes,”
the girl answered, looking away. “That you’re taking out your frustrations on
the people of Lawndale.”
“Well.
I’m not,” SpiderGirl retorted. “If I’m frustrated, it’s that people are getting
murdered and the police are unable to do anything about it.”
“Oh.
But I’m sure that they are doing something. Whether it’s enough is
another thing.”
“I’m
sure they aren’t.”
“I
guess,” the girl said.
“Right.
Be safe,” SpiderGirl said as she shot a webline.
“Wait!”
“What?
I have to keep patrolling.”
“Could
you take me somewhere?” the girl asked.
“Why?”
SpiderGirl asked with curiosity.
“I’m
running a little late,” the girl admitted.
“Sure.
But where?”
“A
friend’s place. It’s not far.”
“Hang
on to me then,” SpiderGirl directed.
The
girl nodded and threw her hands around the superhero.
SpiderGirl
found it different than when she had done it with Brittany Taylor two weeks
earlier and not not just because it was in the daytime. The girl was silent,
whereas Brittany had chatted with her a little.
“Here
we are,” SpiderGirl said, when they had reached their destination, a relatively
small house in one of Lawndale’s older subdivisions four blocks away.
“Thanks,”
the girl said,
“You’re
welcome,” SpiderGirl said. “But what is your name?”
“I
guess I know you’re SpiderGirl,” the girl murmered.
“Yes,”
SpiderGirl said impatiently.
“You
can call me Feli,” the girl said with a smile. “It’s short for Felicia.”
“Thanks,”
SpiderGirl said in a cheerful tone, before swinging away.
‘Weird,’
SpiderGirl commented as she headed back towards the downtown, keeping an eye on
the streets below on the way.
It
was just after sunset when SpiderGirl arrived back at the red brick house in
Glen Oaks Lane. She saw that her mother and sister were home. She still wasn’t
sure what to make of that girl.
Lawndale
Sun-Herald
Wednesday,
December 16, 1999
Editorial
Is
Lawndale High Performing Well?
Quinn
arrived at school early. She wanted to be ready to help those three students.
Even though she had not slept much and had spent most of the night patrolling
and had rescued two women from muggers just after sunrise. That and the thought
of that girl was still filling her mind at times.
Words: 411
Total:
493
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