THE ELLIPSIS...

“'You know who I am, and you see what I have become. You created your own demons, and I am going to make sure you regret everything you have ever done. Also, thanks for…

"He remembers flickering lights and desperately grasping at the man with the hazel eyes' hand, sweaty and terrified of the occurrences outside of the closet they were concealed in."

"There is a long rope, a stage, and two men. They motion me too come over and I do. The rope is tied around my neck as if I’m their pet and we’re just…

"the gods paint a psychedelic watercolor on your window."

"Arilla knew nothing about the man, other than the fact that his skin was lilac and his hair was dark. But, because of how much the question and her lack of inspiration tormented her,…

"Is it really something on which we dwell? Or is it thoughts with which we comply?"

"Each one As luminous as a pearl"

"By following these simple steps, you can shame your sadness into that dark, decrepit part of your brain we like to call The Subconscious."

"On my frieze tells a story and helps me grow."

"the birds sighed your stolen song most begrudgingly right after you left To kiss another’s cheek"

"I crawl into bed and put my sheets on. 'Good night Shimmer,' I murmur to my dog. My eyes close and I drift to sleep."

"She is thinking. Looking at my outstretched hand, half the palm twisted upwards by disease that has ruined my family. Is ruining. Has ruined. I don’t know. She is thinking, I presume, about the…

"As you plan to make a leaf pile, a work of childish creation, the brown leaf sits at the edge of your vision. You put it at the top. Quite strange, how sending it…

"As I calm Baji in my arms I look in her deep green eyes, look at her scarred face, and she smiles at me. Should I take her with me? Should I free her…

"I can’t take from others Because I know how hard it is to give."

"I stand. Strong. Waiting for the demon. The demon that fights for greed."

"He heard rustling and he turned around. Behind him was a map taped to a tree. He grabbed it and opened it. It showed a strange world with four giant land masses at each…

"You eat, think, confess, write, whatever you want to do in the waiting room. It's just a white couch and a white coffee table in a white space with a white ceiling and white…

“'So you’re half-demon?' she asks. 'Yeah,' Cass says. 'And so are you.'”

"I smile winningly at him but the muscles in my face hurt so I stop and then the jackhammer in my chest breaks through and it’s okay though because I am the first. But…

"His crystal eyes caught a glimpse of the outside world, a world filled with natural beauty, a world that sang with joy from the perfect chaos of nature."

Papa was there, but he was distant. Far away. Dead with a bullet in his head. Gun down. Man down. Curls drenched in a coat of thick, drying blood. Ambulances can’t help the deceased.

"But the knowledge that one day The chains will return Sieges your liberty."

"i was called to the funeral, and i wore a yellow dress to commemorate the color of her cheeks"

"But when he hooked a dolphin he fell in and grabbed its fin and was never to be found again."

"You loved (love?) him and cared (care?) for him and missed (miss?) him when he went out late to perform at pubs. Why can’t that be again? You and him, you are two pieces…

"Brine looked at the helicopter, then at the wave. He looked back at the helicopter, took Mittens in one hand, and punted him up into Minegamer’s hands. His eyes locked with Minegamer’s, and he…

"I have to play piano everyday. Sometimes I don’t do a good job, other times I do, and sometimes I do great. But I usually do my best only when I am motivated."

"Yo, yo, check it, yo. I eat it like dinner. You see this stuff I gotta deal with from these beginners? Wait, what? We’re recording? Oh! This is the president speaking. I just wanted…

"Cynthia dressed herself and rushed upstairs to George’s bedroom, her one-size-too-big slippers brushing against the carpeted floor of the stairs. She imagined what could have happened: Did George die?"

“'What’s your problem?' 'What do you mean?' he says, raising his eyebrows 'Whenever Prosper’s around, you get quiet and ignore us. Do you not like him?' 'It's not that. It’s just weird having someone…

"'Don’t you ever try to tell me what to do. Do you think I’m scared to blow this whole stupid school up, huh? ‘Cause that’s what I’ma do if you don’t shut the hell…

"If you asked anyone, they would say I was happy or always laughing. No one saw, and no one asked. I don’t blame them. I didn't realize I was such a good actor."

"the obvious contrasts of mother and a mom and beloved mommy and she knows if the news is good or bad just by how they say hello."

"I regret to 'inform' you that I fear I am to die soon, but as the writer of my tale, my dear, you knew that already. I implore you to reconsider my upcoming demise."

"I felt the stinging once again. I winced in pain. My mom held me as if I was about to faint. She asked, “are you alright Leroy?” I nodded a bit nervously."

"She walked out, sword swinging menacingly on her hip and watched as warriors nodded to her, acknowledging her record time to return to unfeeling. It was a bit of a game between them, who…

"The logical part of my brain yells at me. I need to control myself. Every day, I promise myself that next time I will go straight to bed. Every day, I break that promise."

"Here--the crime rates are as low as the stress is high with the nerve picking pressure of decisions to be made."

"They were almost… alive, heavy, smooth, warm under your fingertips."

"Just then an announcement came over the loudspeaker. 'We have hit an iceberg and we are going down. Families should proceed to the exit where a life raft will be taking them to the…

"Round and round upon the ground, the carousel goes spinning."

"I was thrown into the junkyard, by the Trash Man. I swam out of the junkyard and saw my mom. I yelled but she was busy on facebook.com!"

"Writopia!"

"Yet all are lies, but the fault lies not within our sense, but within our mind where we refuse to make amends."

"I wanted to help her, this magical being who had saved me from my pain. She doesn’t come back until the next day. But this time when she appears, she is tied up to…

"Or perhaps I would stroll across a fire. I could watch the destruction and the beauty, without letting anything reach me"

"The fire popped and crackled as it burned lower. Arkwright deposited the brass scrap absentmindedly on the floor, picking up a coiled spring. 'So. Come to kill me again?' he inquired politely."

"This 14-year-old boy, Aldrin, had been studying how to hack into many different systems since he was four. He wanted to do this because his grandfather mysteriously went missing eight years ago after he…

"The static of a thousand rays captured in the tear of a heartbeat, a silent scream ripping through the swallowed air."

"Masara dressed in a huge suit of monkey armor that was dark red with a light on all sides that would blind anyone who tried to hit him. After he was dressed, Masara, Peter,…

"That night, with his child still at home, he hacked into the security system and broke into the museum. He got all the way to the dinosaur model before there was a loud whirring…

"The ambulance had turned its siren off. Mike knew what that meant. He looked at the cracked watch on his right wrist. Time of death: 12:01."

"They embraced for a long time, not speaking anything for several minutes. Finally, Enoch piped up. 'Hey Daddy? Where’s Ansel?' Stephen let loose a small sigh. 'Wherever you’d like him to be, Enoch. Always.'"

"All my mom can talk about is how I'm going to be more independent, how I'm getting out the house, how my brothers and sisters won't be there to annoy me, and how I…

"When I peruse through dreams I sometimes see your stork, endlessly searching, never giving up on the thought that you may be just a few feet ahead, for she has true love for you.…

"She snapped her fingers, and, as if by some invisible force, Marcus was thrown across the room, and hit the wall. He winced in pain, but his eyes still held a malicious glint."

"He only made it a few more steps before he broke the charade and ran. Steam rushed from the Stoompistools in small controlled bursts, totally unlike the screaming cloud in the garden. But the…

"Because when a shadow is left by itself there is no light to counteract its misguided ways, and it’s eternally fixed in a darkened spotlight. His shadow morphed into the clumpy, death-black cigarette tar…

“'Fonzie, are you even listening to me? If we stay here that thing will get us! I don’t know how to make it any clearer!' Fonzie gulped, tracing her fingers on the floor, and…

"To mend the sore bone that kept her from flying, that kept them all from soaring. The quiet community off of Route 9, their refugee camp. Broken Wings Way."

"I was erasing the world, and relied only on myself. That was how I got through, stayed sane, kept going."

“'I just really miss my old school, and my best friend Katherine, and some other friends as well,' I say, more to myself than Auburn. 'Ooh, who’s the boy you left?' Auburn says with…

"I quickly learned that things don’t happen because you’re hungry, or sad, or dirty. You have to earn it. I was only eleven when I learned that lesson. I was eleven when I left."

"Detective Sharp said, 'We should make a team name.' The Inventor asked, 'What should we name it?' "Dr. Dupont said, 'Well, we are all people of the world, we are a class, then we…

"But there is something really serious. These people at Sea World are torturing the poor whales. Its terrible! I, er, might of followed these evil guys into a room where I overheard them planning…

"The stream looped around the yard near the fence, and I begged her to put a bridge in so I could cross it."

"His fingers wrap / around her neck. / This necklace is / the present no one / asked for."

"It starts small a thin line maybe maybe"

"Jessica and I were talking and laughing on our way home from school when I decided to tell her my news. 'Hey, have you heard about the cross-country team tryouts? This is my only…

"Drinking, dancing, and laughing — until I woke up the next morning on a stranger’s tan, smoky couch. And Graham was gone. I scoured the whole house looking for him, the backyard, the attic,…

"Adam took a step forward and tripped on a rock. He picked up the rock and threw it forward. It landed on a bumpy spot on the land and Adam heard beeping. Instinctively, he…

"Crystal, white, sugar-light, how beautiful is the snow?"

"The stream looped around the yard near the fence, and I begged her to put a bridge in so I could cross it."

"There was a jar filled with Ring Pops that she would always pull out for me."

"White is a color that shines like the moon. White is a color that breaks through the gloom."