Wow Ron -- this one is impressive. I was wondering if I inspired this one :-) because I never seen you write this dark before; it is almost something that I could written. There is a story you'd like that is right on my website and it is titled Library of Bones. This is one I wrote before Among Shadows -- there is two versions. One version is the computer processed version then the other was the cut and pasted version I did right from the typewriter.
Chris has been fostered at the Crowley boot camp since he turned seven. At sixteen, he is finally ready to run away because his foster father is an abusive person who works Chris and the other children to the point of exhaustion. All he has left of h