The Darking

Children can flirt with adult emotions. It can foreshadow adult life the way a kitten playing with a string foreshadows the pounce of the full-grown cat. But there is much a child cannot really deal with, such as passion, lust, pride, envy, hate, and death--in short, all the things most literature is about. An awareness of death, it has been said, is what separates mainstream from that of children, not only because we try to protect children, but because they don't understand it. Basically, all these differences of awareness and understanding are of degree rather than kind; and these needs of children, while they may be magnified in childhood, are not so very different from the needs of adult human beings. In this story a young girl learns to deal with life and loss. Her journey allows us to reminisce our own childhood. Along this journey, she manages to mold and shape the mind of her closest friend as well as the reader. Join Courtney and her creative mind in coping with life's cruelest lesson.