The recent sudden departures of people for whom he cared has weighed on Titus's mind. These vanishings feel worse than experiencing the death of a loved one: at least when one can stand by the graveside of a loved one laid to rest, one has some sense of closure. But in these cases, one cannot know where this friend or lover has gone, and what took ( Read more... )

It has been too long a time since Morgoth fed upon the fear of the Mansion Dwellers. He feels His power diminishing because of it, or perhaps it is that He needs it to feel alive ( Read more... )

It's snowing on New York city, and it's a weekend early morning. She hasn't slept yet - it's one of those things where after a diner shift, she let Caroline pass out in her pink vagina, made cupcakes all night, watched the sun rise, then decided to take Chestnut out on a walk ( Read more... )

For the past several weeks, folks going into the basement might have noticed a few odd-looking buckets in one cool, dark, dry corner, and a tall guy checking on them every day, with the attention of a surgeon with a critical patient ( Read more... )

Daniel ... well, Daniel is seven, and tends to get easily distracted (comes from being seven and also a puppy still), so even though he knows he has an important job to do, he sometimes forgets and doesn't think about it ( Read more... )

[SPOILERS for Supernatural up to 5x22 in this post, and likely in the course of play with my Dean.  Sorry.]
( Beautiful loser, never take it all 'cause it's easier and faster when you fall; you just can't have it all. )

It has taken time for this to happen, for the Dark Lord to gather it all, his influence of that which is not Arda but close enough to it, that which he hates about all else for the light of it remains a beacon ( Read more... )

Nightmare Night nearly turned into a disaster, with Luna offended, mistaking the comical fear of the ponies for real distrust, but friendship had worked its magic and the night was saved. Another lesson learned, and she had a letter to write to Princess Celestia about her discoveries. In her haste to get started, she'd left her Star Swirl the ( Read more... )

It's Halloween, the darkest night of all dark nights, a night when the veil between the spirit world and the physical world lifts, the night when it's best to wear one's disguises, to hide from whatever might be creeping through that open portal. Outside, the full moon rides over the skeletal tree tops, vanishing at times when small clouds scud ( Read more... )

     It's been a shockingly quick nine months since Brett turned up on the Mansion lawn.  In that time he's been mostly floating in a figurative limbo, unwilling to commit to living here, unable to break away from it.  He misses his pack, he misses his friends, he misses his mother and he misses his girlfriend - he wonders if they miss him, if they ( Read more... )