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"Four to Stand" - Prologue
Prologue “Ness!” Moonlight streamed into the room, coming through the billowing curtains like an astral spider web. A cool breeze shifted in the space, filling Ness Parazzi’s lungs with its ...
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"Four to Stand" - Chapter One
Chapter One Ness’s bed bounced up and down as if she had just fallen on to it. She sat bolt upright, her heart pounding and body drenched in sweat. A ...
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"Four to Stand" - Chapter Two
*Note* If you haven't read the Prologue or Chapter One, please go to my portfolio and do so now! You'll get a better understanding of what's going on, and chances ...
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"Four to Stand" - Chapter Three
Once again...if you haven't read the previous chapters and the prologue, do so now! If not, I promise that you'll be thoroughly confused. Thanks! Chapter Three The plane landed four ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Four
Chapter Four Jonas slowly pulled his car over to the side of the road at the cop’s direction, muttering words under his breath that Landon, who was sitting in the ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Five
Chapter Five “What the hell was that, Max?” Jonas growled at the air in front of him. Landon, who had just yanked the curtains shut, looked tense by the window. ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Six
Make sure you've read all the other chapters first! Thanks! Chapter Six Over the next week, Ness didn’t get to invite Landon or his friends over for a pool party ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Seven
Chapter Seven It was spread over the table like a spotlight, shining and reflecting off the odd colors of the boys’ hair. There was no source to the light; it ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight Landon turned the camera on and they started down the steep hill. “And we’re off on a midnight journey into the woods,” he said dramatically behind the camera. ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Nine
Chapter Nine It was chaos. Ness screamed as the light swept her into it, pushing her towards the three boys. She had the strangest feeling of merging, of being too ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Ten
Finally, another chapter! I'm really sorry about the delays, but I've been buried under homework and Fall Break was just this past weekend. I'm going to try and post a ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Eleven
Chapter Eleven Ness hit the ground hard. She heard Jonas fall next to her, heard the sound of flesh smacking off concrete. She heard the evil laugh of the cloaked ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Twelve
Chapter Twelve “Camael?” Jonas and Max gasped as the angel pulled itself out of the split in the earth. “Sorry about that,” he said, standing on the grass and clapping ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Thirteen The stairs were long and made of marble, so it took quite an effort for Max and Jonas to hide their footfalls as they raced to the second ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fourteen Mrs. Gonzales’s eyes were locked on Camael, but she didn’t seem to see him standing there. Her gaze went right through him, directed first toward Jonas, then to ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Fifteen Ness didn’t even have to wake up for school on Monday morning—she hadn’t been able to fall back asleep after being roused by her dream at three fifteen. ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Sixteen “Wait a minute. What are you saying?” Max asked, his strange eyes frozen as he turned over Ness’s words in his head. “I’m saying that Jordan is one ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Seventeen The timing was perfect. Ness somehow knew that it would be, or else she wouldn’t have suggested this plan of action to Landon in the first place. The ...
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Writing Challenge 11/07: A Four to Stand Article
This fake news article is for this week's writing challenge! If you don't understand it, read my book, Four to Stand, which is almost posted in its entirety on this ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty At that instant, Ness’s anger peaked. It was higher than ever before—she wanted to kill. The fire in the pit of her stomach only intensified when the smile ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-One Ness realized that the cloaked figure was inches from her face at the last minute. She stumbled backwards, falling into Jonas. She felt hot tears pressing into her ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Two Max acted quickly. He threw his hands out, grabbing on to his three friends and shutting his eyes tight, letting his energy spill into them. He could feel ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Three A rush came over all five of them as power streamed back to their use. Landon set to healing Camael before they took another step forward—they didn’t know ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Twenty-Four - Final Chapter
Chapter Twenty-Four “Us?” Jonas asked, disbelieving. “How can it belong to us?” “You are the four Mortal Angels, aren’t you?” “We don’t have to be,” Ness argued. “That’s what y
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Four to Stand - Chapter Eighteen
I just got word that two of the Four to Stand chapters are missing!! Sorry about that! But I'm going to post them now and anyone who missed them before ...
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Four to Stand - Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Nineteen Wednesday evening crept up on them so quickly that Landon couldn’t believe where the time had gone. He sat on the porch steps outside his house that night, ...
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The Self, On Itself
I hate her. I hate the way she thinks, rethinks, thinks again without stopping, pounding through my brain like a restless tornado tearing through Oklahoma farmland barns. I hate the ...
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Days of 1993
Time stopped February twentieth. Tests taken, processed— seven warning signs predicted their results. Let it rip through disease like a knife in tender flesh: morphine, radiation, burn it out, take ...
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Four to Stand: Book 2 Prologue
Hey, I'm back! If anyone remembers reading Book One, which I posted awhile back...I just wanted to let you know that I finished the rough draft of the second book! ...
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Four to Stand 2: Chapter One
Don't forget to read the Prologue first! -------------------------- Chapter One Ness Parazzi was violently jerked awake by the noise of the bell that announced the end of her art class. ...
