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Nobody said anything for a full ten seconds after they got back to the car. The beach was still there. The dunes were still there. The tide was still dragging its black edge in and out with a sound like someone slowly tearing cloth. But the wrongness had cha...

The stitched strip looked less impressive once it was inside the car. Out in the pine clearing it had felt important enough to change the air. Back at the roadside pull-over it was just a torn piece of old cloth in Mum’s hands, lit by dashboard glow and the o...

Morning made a decent attempt at normal. It put steam above the campground sinks. It put a damp shine on the picnic tables. It sent a tūī somewhere up in the trees to declare itself with complete confidence, as though nothing in the wider world had spent the ...

The honest side way did not look impressive. That was the first thing Ivy noticed once the carnival lights had fallen properly behind them and the last of the bright music had thinned into something mean and far away. The track ahead was only a narrow run of ...

Ben did not let them settle at the ruined shelter for long. He gave the penciled note one more look, tucked two fingers under the sstrings in his guitar strings as if checking a missing tooth, and said, “We keep moving.” Dad stared at him. “You have got to b...

For Oakley Cartwright Pip set off for the Moonberry Fair in a red raincoat with a satchel full of chalk and a pocket full of courage.Well. A small pocket.The path through Turnip Wood was quiet.Too quiet.Then—POP! POP! POP!Out bounced a band of bristly hob...

Ben Jammin did not raise his voice often, which made it worse when he did. “Move,” he said, already turning down the honest side way. “Not in a minute. Now.” The word snapped the family loose. Mum shoved the Lantern Compass back into her grip before it could d...