Chapter 1: The Morning That Shouldn’t Have Happened Stanley Baxter wasn’t what you’d call a “morning person.”He was more of a “morning hostage”—dragged out of his dreams every day at exactly 7:00 A.M. by an alarm clock that sounded like a dying robot. This morning was no different. BEEEEP! BEEEEP! BEEEEP! Stanley groaned, rolled over, …
Chapter 1 – Two Beds, Two Worlds The sirens outside never really stopped.They just got quieter when you were too tired to care. Ten-year-old Eli Carter lay curled on the couch beneath a thin blanket, the flicker of streetlights striping his face through cracked blinds. His mom had already gone to work—she always did before …
Once, in a village nestled between whispering woods and a silver river, there lived a girl named Lirien. She was no ordinary child—her shadow flickered like a candle flame, never quite staying still. The villagers whispered that it was a curse, a mark of something stolen from the night itself. Lirien didn’t mind the whispers; …
Not all things that glisten and look good are a good idea, learning discernment means trusting in God.
Newspaper delivery is hard work, you have to wake up early and you have to deal with grouchy people, a great skill for a young man to master.
Discipline always has an advantage in life, learning that lesson can be tough.
Work is important, and often when we put off the work we need to do we suffer in the future.
Sometimes the worst things in life can be the best.
Few truly understand mercy, and when it’s actually given, they often forget to extend it to others.
People often make rash decisions to give away what they should be content with only to find out that dreams don’t always come true.
