Sarah Jacobson was grinning as widely as anyone had ever grinned. Summer Vargas sighed and rolled her head, while Jessica Beauregard sat to the side and stared at the ground. “Not to say I didn’t have any faith in you, but I had absolutely no faith in you. Now, my reward?” Summer faked a smile [...]

Victoria Rosewood stretched out on the common room couch. She was finding it incredibly hard to be motivated enough to do any schoolwork, and found that admiring the changing leaves through large windows was a far better use of her time. She was hardly alone; in fact, there was a small crowd by the corner [...]

Jessica Beauregard tipped the water bottle slowly, letting the cool liquid drip into Summer Vargas’ mouth. Her eyes were half-closed and unfocused, trails of sweat engraved on her face, dripping from stray strands of hair matted to her forehead. Jessica would have barely thought her conscious if one of Summer’s hands wasn’t gripping her forearm [...]

“I’m telling you man, ecstasy has nothing on this. You have to trust me.” “Stop messing with me Kyle, it’s a goddamn music file. It’s not going to do anything.” Kyle Moran rolled his eyes, chuckling. “I know, I know, I said the same thing. But it’s not music. It’s…it’s amazing, man. I haven’t even [...]

Marcus Ellenbee had already been in the library for nearly forty five minutes when Victoria Rosewood arrived. He was by far the shortest boy in his year, and Victoria was the tallest in hers; as she neared the table he was sitting at, their size difference was almost comical. With an uneasy smile she sat [...]

Jessica Beauregard blushed slightly as she watched her roommate blow out a thin plume of blue smoke. It wasn’t that she was a prude or anything, but she had only been at school for two months and was still getting used to things. She had enrolled at the academy with an eye towards business; numbers [...]

There were, it was commonly known, two possible prerequisites for entering the Farraday Academy. The first was a superior intellect – even the most basic of classes far surpassed those offered by most universities in both depth and challenge, and more than a couple of alumni ranked among nobel prize winners. The second was immense [...]

Marcus Ellenbee had his arms folded on the long table, his head down on it as his eyes lazily scanned several lines of his book before looking up. It was a cycle he’d gone through roughly every few minutes of the last hour. Spears of sunlight pierced the windows, and there was only one student [...]

A thick, orange candle casts a harsh light across the table, four young people seated around it. At the head, a short boy with dark, shaggy hair looks up and begins to speak. “Welcome to the first meeting of the Farraday Academy Paranormal Investigation Society. Our purpose is-” “That’s not really the name, is it? [...]