The main room has been decorated to resemble either a very girly funeral, or a very depressing bridal florist's. The tables are draped with magenta silk, and vast arrangements and wreaths of flowers fill the room: gardenias, chrysanthemums, lilacs, asphodel ( Read more... )

Nita is sitting cross-legged on the floor of the main room, with her book open in front of her, deep in concentration ( Read more... )

A second ago you would have sworn there was just empty space there, but suddenly the air ripples, splits, and hardens into a glass-transparent doorway through which an entirely other place can be seen--an alien landscape of lumpy grey rock, barren grey soil, and lush trees ( Read more... )

Arabella, intrigued rather than dissuaded by Tom Jones' warnings, has posted a message.

( A Message for all 'Wizards' of the Community )

Kit fixes things. That’s what he does. It is his basic calling in life. Broken and abandoned mechanical things make him sad, and so he fishes them out of closets and hauls them out to the large shed - which was probably a garage at some point - on the edge of the grounds. There, he fixes them ( Read more... )

Any day now the Mansion will be blanketed in snow and festooned with icicles, right on schedule; but for the moment, the lawns are still bare, the wind brisk but not bitter, the air bracing. Conveniently, because something seems to be going on ( Read more... )

"--Grant ( Read more... )

Enter a girl ( Read more... )

Have you been brought up with a certain belief structure and has that attitude been changed by being here at this place, seeing other's points of view and witnessing other things ( Read more... )

Dionysus is giddy, as usual, though right now it's still mostly spring making him wild, and he has an idea. A marvelous idea. The best kind of idea ( Read more... )