...he symptoms had started yesterday. Brian opened his eyes to see the lights were green, as three drivers behind him started leaning on their horns. ... ...to-bumper with the car in front. He looked up at the rooftop again. The girl was gone. The sun was in his eyes, annoyingly. Should he ring the polic... ... a momentary fear as she saw the intent in James’s face. Maybe, finally, she had gone too 12 far? Her mouth curled to display grim defiance. Sh... ...y rooftop, with a grandstand view of the suffering and devastation, the girl sat filming the event below using her mobile phone. She smiled as she h... ...e screams, the cries 15 and the pitiful whinnying of the dying. She stopped filming and attached the video file to a message which read: ‘Dadd... ...gently down on cold concrete. A hand tenderly brushed her hair back and then was gone. Or maybe she had dreamed that bit? The coach had set off at ... ...he had long black hair, swept back in a ponytail, and she was dressed in a smart green school uniform, which suggested to O’Brien one of the expensi... ...a bad way. Time to find out if Daddy was right. She took ‘the gadget’ from her green blazer pocket. It was a small black device, the same size as ... ...ease stop,” said Sam, trying not to cry. James had made her watch several horror films with him, and each time it had given her nightmares. Now it f...

... to the side dish. She grabbed a basket and stepped outside. She had only gone a few steps when she felt the presence of another. She stopped and tu... ...h glanced at Jacques again before looking down at her plate, her appetite gone. An uncomfortable silence descended, but Laylah didn’t break it. She ... ...photo was taken. It was the last time Father had done anything fun. They’d gone to West Sparks River Beach, played in the waves and built sand castle... ...cascading down her back. The red tresses came from her mother as did her green eyes. She grimaced and brushed her bangs out of her face. Laylah rea... ... smile lit his face. She was beautiful with that olive skin, red hair and green eyes filled with innocence and pain. Such a contradiction, but an in... ...tuation quickly. A moan came from the bed and Kattcha looked down. Sleepy green eyes locked on her face. Confusion, then fear filled them. Kattcha r... ...’ll try.” “No try. As a little green man said in that 20 th century Earth film that Father and I watched last week 'Do or do not. There is no try.' ...

...ent right to his room, waving his mother off when she asked how things had gone. 14 SUSAN BRACKEN CHAPTER 4 THE NEXT MORNING, Lacey resumed the sorti... ...so how could they die just like that on their very first vacation? She had gone to work as usual each day and she’d kept thinking things like I will s... ...addy will not have to do it, then sud- denly realizing that her father was gone. There had been no funeral. There were no bodies to bury. There was a ... ...hat Jana held out for him. The girls had set the table with bright red and green napkins. Christmas carols were playing again on the radio. “Eggs?” Ja... ...S BATTLE said she’s going back to her maiden name and has been accepted by Greenpeace International, so she’s leaving Canada.” Before Lacey could resp... ...esk clerks about having to wait. Finally they were called. After viewing a film on chemo- therapy and possible side effects, and being warned verbally... ... make sup- per and they had talked about their favorite colors (Jana’s was green, and Scott, who had never thought about it before, real- ized he like... ...ld right to die movement; listing events, organizations, and bibliography, filmography, the laws), Norris Lane Press, 2008, 182 pp, PB Jean’s Way, Der...