Andlat's Story Spot

"James," Caitlyn whispered. "This isn't funny. You have to figure out a way to change me back." "Can't." James replied. "Threw the magic wand in the lake." "I can't stay..." The former boy couldn't bring herself to say the g word. Not yet. "Like this." "You gonna have to." James said with a grin. "You'll get used to it, I bet." Bryan whispered. Caitlyn sighed. Why had she sat between the two of them? "Being a girl, I mean." "Duh." Caitlyn muttered. Get used to it? Bryan wasn’t the one stuck there in a pink dress, long hair getting everywhere. "I bet the spell will make it so even we don't remember you being Michael." Bryan shrugged. "What are you three whispering about back there?" Their dad asked. "Oh, leave them be, Mike." Lisa said. "They were fighting all morning. I'm glad they'll at least behave for grandma." ...

  "Catherine! Fancy seeing you here! I feel like it's been a month!"  "Hello Marcie! Almost a month, yeah." She said with a chuckle. "I've been busy."  "Isn't that the truth? And you came without Aiden?" A strange look crossed Catherine's face and Marcie followed her gaze to the girl standing by a chair. It took her a moment, but then she recognized the girl's chin. "Oh. Oh, my god."  "Yeah." Catherine stretched the word out.  "What happened?"  "I... got carried away." Catherine said sheepishly. "You remember the garden party a month ago? The one where Aiden kept pulling girls' hair and got all muddy?"  "Of course." "Well, I took him straight home and gave him a bath. It was when I was brushing his hair for bed that it came to me. If he liked pulling girls' hair, maybe I should show him what having long hair is like."  "I see that....

"Give it to me!" Lisa sighed as she set her lemonade down on the counter. Why did it always seem like she could only get a minute's peace and quiet before the kids started yelling again? "Give it, James!" Yep, it sounded like Caitlyn was being bossy again. The screen door closing behind her was normally enough of a warning for her kids that mom was coming. Today, however, Caitlyn kept trying to tug a stick -- a stick of all things! -- out of her brother's hand. She surveyed the scene as she drew closer. Bryan and James in their matching outfits -- sure, they were eleven months apart, but that was practically twins -- plaid shirts and stylishly torn jeans. And then there was Caitlyn in her pink dress and a big bow in her hair. Lisa almost stumbled. That darn lump! She tripped over it every day! She looked back at her kids and, for the briefest moment, something felt amiss "James!" Caitlyn yelled. The way she was trying with all her might to get tha...

Dalton paced back and forth outside of the dance studio, waiting for his little sister to come out so he could escort her home. He thought it was so dumb that he had to do it just because his mom was working a little late. She was only a year younger than him, so why did he have to escort her home? He turned as he heard the door open, but it was just one of Emily’s friends. Courtney or something? He could not remember. “Hey, Dalton, Emily wanted me to come tell you that she’s running a little late, so she figured you could come inside and sit down to wait for her.” Dalton sighed. “Fine.” He walked past Courtney or whatever her name was and into the dance studio. He saw a few girls in yellow tutus standing around, but none of them were his sister. “Where is she?” He asked. “Changing.” Courtney replied. “I can take her there if you want.” Before he could even answer, she had grabbed his wrist and was pulling him along. “They won’t mind a boy being back there, I’m sure.” He tried t...

"Why do I let you do these things to me?" I muttered as I tried to look away from the mirror. Try as I might, I couldn't. It was like watching a horror movie. You want to look away, but you can't. "Because you're a good brother." Zoe said with a smile as she put the finishing touches on my make-up. "Though, remember" "Yeah, I know." I said. "I'm not your brother Zack, I'm your" I shuddered just thinking about it. "Sister Vienna." I hated the name, but Zoe had given me since last night to pick my own. Since I couldn't, I got the name she had picked. Vienna. "And how old are you, baby sis?" "Zoe!" "What? That's how sisters talk to each other." I knew the story she had made up for me. "I'm six and a half." I muttered, knowing from my reflection I really did look it. How she had turned an eleven year old boy into a six and a half year old girl with just make-u...

Tanner Tanner stormed into the house, as furious as he could be with his bare feet slapping on the linoleum. All he knew were the facts: Derek and Kevin had cornered him and held him down as they teased their ‘widdle cousin’. When they saw that they couldn’t get him to whine and beg for them to let him up like they used to, the younger boys had resorted to meaner tactics: Derek had taken his shoes and run in one direction while Kevin stole his shorts and laughed as Tanner had given chase while trying to keep his gray tank top down over his Spongebob underoos as he wove between groups of chatting adults. He had retrieved his shorts, though he hated that it had taken Kevin’s mom intervening to get them back with a mumbled apology, but now Tanner was on a mission to get his shoes. He knew Derek had come inside, but where had he taken his shoes? “Great, my hair’s a mess.” Tanner muttered as he passed a mirror. He tried to smooth it down, to no avail. Whatever. Between the hair, the m...

  “Why did I ever agree to this?” Cody muttered. “You’re the one who said you wished there were photos of you and Bethany where you weren’t in a dress.” As far as Cody could remember, that was not how it had happened. He remembered spending hours trying to convince Bethany that he didn’t really want to dance along to Cocomelon videos in nothing but his underwear, ever aware of the photo of them in their dresses. When mom finally said it was time to go and Bethany was trying to find where she had hid his pants, he had muttered that he wished his photo wasn’t up there for everyone to see. How mom had twisted that into this… this ordeal! “It’ll mean the world to her!” Mom said once she told him just what she – and Bethany’s mom too, he was sure – had planned. “Yeah, and prove to her that I’m a baby.” “Oh, come on.” Mom said. “You and I both know you aren’t and I think Bethany does too.” Cody snorted. “And it’s so cute how she always wants to take care of you and how yo...