Tobi's Story

The giving over has happened, the earth renamed Saturnine. Tobi finds herself orphaned and in a group home. Can she navigate this bizarre world of duality alone?

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Crown’s Plank (one) Solitary Confinement

by Sara Jo Blevins | April 8, 2014 | Tobi | 0 Comments

Tobi could feel the minuscule twitching of the muscles just outside the outline of her lips. Her mind flashed to images of some sadistic puppeteer...

Crown’s Plank (two) The Labyrinth and Midnight

by Sara Jo Blevins | April 10, 2014 | Tobi | 0 Comments

Tobi's past constructed itself as a labyrinth in her mind. This labyrinth was in constant twilight with wind that whipped tall, evergreen hedges...

Crown’s Plank (three) Compulsion

by Sara Blevins | April 12, 2014 | Tobi | 0 Comments

Tobi wondered what time it was. She dared not move from her seat to ask. She had already learned the...

Crown’s Plank (four) Luminous Cries

by Sara Blevins | April 15, 2014 | Tobi | 0 Comments

Typically, these groups were held indoors. Unless... a penance was necessary. Breach of the rules at Crown's Plank had many consequences, each...

Crown’s Plank (five) Submitting to Memory

by Sara Blevins | April 18, 2014 | Tobi | 0 Comments

The thought of her father brought with it, as always, crippling desolation. Tobi's grief over her father was such that she had not cried for him...

Crown’s Plank (six) Shanty Town Floor

by Sara Blevins | April 21, 2014 | Tobi | 0 Comments

The conversation looped. Each time it thrummed inside Tobi's skull, her grief slipped a little further back to make way for her fury. Her breathing...

Crown’s Plank (seven) Dissecting Leer

by Sara Blevins | April 23, 2014 | Tobi | 0 Comments

Despite her frantic search, Tobi could find nothing with which to unleash her demons. Each individual second spent with her own lies burrowed itself...

Crown’s Plank (eight) Translucent Cubes

by Sara Blevins | April 25, 2014 | Tobi | 0 Comments

Tobi could sense Miss Antonina inwardly shouting for obedience as she stood before her at the top of the stairs. She tried to keep her lids from...

Crown’s Plank (nine) Guise of Strength

by Sara Blevins | April 27, 2014 | Tobi | 0 Comments

Tobi heard whispering coming from the other girls. They had gathered in the living room, beside the stairs, in a huddle where they waited anxiously...

Crown’s Plank (ten) To The Stream

by Sara Blevins | May 1, 2014 | Tobi | 0 Comments

Tobi turned to the others and swept her eyes over them, daring them to hurt her with their contempt. "I'm sorry guys, I guess because of me we don't...

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