Goodbye, midwest!!

It is good to be ensconced in my wee home, and so strange that just this morning I was sipping tea on sheafrotherdon's couch ( Read more... )

If you somehow missed Cate's adorable Ferris wheel story, The Apex of it All, rush over and read it-and then read Addendum. Both stories are so filled to the brim with laughter and fondness and summer and John and Rodney in love that they're making me crave lemonade (don't tell Rodney), or maybe gin and tonics, and late, warm nights, and summer- ( Read more... )

Brilliantly recognizing the need for John's scruffy cheek to rub against Rodney's belly (asdflkj!), Siria offers the very lovely Size M, 100% Cotton, a story, as she says, of five t-shirts, and also of engine grease and an old green armchair and boys who fit each other improbably well.

And I can't imagine anyone in the world needing it recommended ( Read more... )

A tiny tiny bit of Iowa for CateBecause some mornings, when Rodney's worked through the night, when his mind's still buzzing but his body's exhausted, before John and Finn are up, when he's still rooted in the kitchen with the early morning light streaming through the windows, he looks out across the fields and hears music in the quiet-the rhythm ( Read more... )

I can't even tell you the things that Cate's Sunday Morning snippet of life on the farm in Iowa does to me, but I just want to put that feeling in my pocket and keep it there, rub my thumb over and over it like a smooth stone.

asdfasflkj.

For Cate, and posted with her blessing, a wee snippet set in her A Farm in Iowa universe (~360 words). ♥

Wednesday

( Rodney only knows it's Wednesday because it's spaghetti night )