Mouth Breather - The Novel

  1. Mouth Breather Chapter 2

    Chapter 2 The blinding fluorescent lights above me did nothing to improve the reflection standing in the mirror before me. My short, black hair was as tousled and unkempt as I’d ever seen it, thanks to the lake water. A fresh bandage covered the jagged cut on the left side of my face. The skin around my eyes and mouth had taken on a bluish hue. My right arm was in a cast and in a sling, both graciously signed by Mom just before she started her shift there in the hospital. I...
  2. Mouth Breather Chapter 1

    Chapter One The sound of my feet dragging along the sidewalk, while bothersome to others, had become something of a comfort to me. Just as the steady “tch…tch…tch” was soothing, so too were the newly dead corpses of once vibrantly green leaves. The sidewalk under the great oaks was littered with them, but the street to my left was practically clear of them, thanks to the work of the street sweeper. In the darkness of night, with the light from the street...
  3. Mouth Breather - Prologue

    PROLOGUE 6th Grade Blood pumping. Fists flailing. The boy in front of me had no idea what he was doing. He had been picking on a fifth grader - and a girl, no less. Boys shouldn’t pick on girls. Not because they are girls, but because nine times out of ten they are physically weaker than the boy doing the bullying. My uncle had taught me that preying on those weaker than you was dishonorable. I ducked. The boy had almost...
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