You are brushing your teeth. Everything is peaceful. Then your brain decides to play seven seconds of a song. Again. And again. And again. Congratulations. You have an earworm. Scientists have a
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Every book in Mr Sen’s second-hand shop had a final page missing. Not torn. Not damaged. Blank. Customers complained. Mr Sen only smiled. “Finish it yourself.” Most people thought it was a
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The library book was seventy-three years overdue. Mira knew because the return slip was still inside. DUE: 14 JULY 1953 She found it while clearing her grandmother’s cupboard. The book itself was
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Schools often tell students that reading is important. Then they give us almost no time to actually do it. Our school days are filled with lessons, assignments, tests, projects, activities and deadlines.
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Harry Potter and Percy Jackson have something frustratingly similar happen to them. One day, they discover that the world they thought they understood is only a small part of the truth. Harry
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I keep a feather between pages twenty-two and twenty-three, not because it is rare, but because I found it on the afternoon I finally stopped being angry. I keep a train ticket
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I was lost for exactly seven minutes. I know because my father checked his watch approximately fourteen times after finding me. To me, however, those seven minutes lasted half a lifetime. We
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For almost a year, I tried to open my lunchbox as quietly as possible. The problem was not the box. It was what was inside. Most of my classmates brought sandwiches, noodles,
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I remember my first library card because I nearly lost it before I reached home. It was a tiny rectangle of laminated paper, and I kept taking it out of my pocket
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A test paper is returned. Before looking at what you got wrong, you look at one thing. The number. Someone beside you asks, “What did you get?” Suddenly, the number feels less
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