For someone so very tiny, Mary Lennox is quite skilled at getting someone's attention. She stands on a chair, banging two cymbals together. (Don't ask where she found them.)

"ATTENTION! Attention, everyone!" she calls out happily, "today is my ELEVENTH birthday ( Read more... )

In honour of World AIDS Day, Mark has set up his projector and is showing, all day long, a movie he'd made a few years back about the AIDS epidemic in New York City. It wasn't widely well recieved, generally panned for being 'too honest'. Most critics said no one wanted to watch people dying onscreen ( Read more... )

The ballroom (because where else would those parties be held?) is lovingly decorated with black and orange crêpe paper, black and orange twinkle lights, pumpkin lanterns, hanging bats and skeletons, and all the tables are covered with black table clothes. On the tables with the black table clothes, there are all sorts of Halloween-y pastries and ( Read more... )

He'd been laying on his back on the moor, arm behind his head and one leg bent with the other resting on it, half napping in a spot of sunlight like a cat, listening to the Robin sing. The sudden silence from the bird makes him sit up, and when his hands hit wooden decking rather than soft grass and wildflowers his eyes open with a start. His ( Read more... )