Mercy paused, her heart thumping in her ears as she cocked her head to one side. Was that the baying of the tracker’s hounds? Or just the...

Just before the final bell rang, I dashed around the room. “I hope you can all come to my party!” I slapped an envelope down on each...

I wrote this piece for a course I took with the Institute of Children’s Literature. The assignment was to create a 500-to-750-word story...