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Setting Fire 04: Buck
“She lives in the freaking White House!” exclaimed Lexi as the beat-up old pickup truck rounded the final curve of the Berkshire Estate’s obnoxiously long driveway. Her dad parked under a columned awning where, Lexi assumed, a valet was supposed to jump up and whisk vehicles out of sight. “It’s not the White House,” he […]
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Setting Fire 03: The Girl in the Steelers Cap
A little girl with long brown hair stood in the middle of a field. “Alex!” she cried, spinning in a circle. The sound startled a murder of crows nearby, their black wings beating as they took flight and scattered…
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Setting Fire 02: Bright-Eyed and Bushy-Tailed
Knucker was pretty sure he knew what Hell must feel like. Okay, maybe he was being a little bit dramatic. (Fine, a lot dramatic.) But after the night he’d had, he kinda sorta thought that he had a right to be, especially in the harsh light of morning when the reality of the situation had sunken in and he and Lexi arrived for their first day of school in the Sheriff’s squad car…
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Setting Fire 01: Once Bitten
Lexi peeked around the corner. At the end of the hall, she could make out the outline of a closed bedroom door and hear the faint sound of her dad’s snoring from the other side…