Upon entering the Town Hall tonight, dance attendees might notice a very definite theme tonight! A very definite, very sparkly theme tonight, with enough glitter strewn around the place that there were, in fact, glitterdrifts piling up around the edges of the dance floor. Everything was glittery, or sequiny, or rhinestoney, with a sort of sci-fi ( Read more... )

Soooo the carnival was out this year, due to that whole murder carnival this summer. But it did bring the arrival of the Homecoming Fall Festival, which was open nice and early for everyone to get playing around and mingling. You might even be enticed to come in just by the dulcet sounds of the zombie band playing at the concert stage. Yeah, that ( Read more... )

Bay thought she might be sad to go home at midsummer, but now that the date was close she was mostly relieved. Her family was going through drama. She had a brother who had reacted to impending divorce by taking of for Iceland; one mother who was writing baseball player porn; and another mother whose new job seemed to be leading her into some ( Read more... )

When Bay got to work, the freezer door was cracked open. She pushed on it but it didn't close, so she decided to leave it. Every so often for the rest of the day, a handful of crushed ice would tumble out of the opening.

This lead to the inevitable kitchen snowball fights, and to drawings of snowflakes on the day's menu board.

Welcome to Luke's! ( Read more... )

It had been most of a month since Gert's death, and that was enough time for Bay to start to heal. Enough time for her to appreciate the summer-like heat in the air on her walk to the diner, to smile when a song she liked came on the kitchen radio. It wasn't that she'd stopped hurting, but for the first time it seemed like she wouldn't always hurt ( Read more... )

The dishwasher looked vaguely frantic when he came up to Bay at the start of her shift and asked whether she was good with plumbing ( Read more... )

Bay had barely left her room since Gert died, and she wasn't sure she felt like doing it today ( Read more... )

"Yes, I know, I'm late," Bay announced as she stomped into the diner's kitchen. "I was trying to straighten out which members of my completely insane family were coming to graduation this weekend, which, by the way, involved five phone calls, 37 texts, and half an hour on Skype with a sign language dictionary open in another window, and -- you aren ( Read more... )

Bay finally had full use of her right hand again, so today was pretty much the best day of her life. She was celebrating by trying to juggle everything at hand in the kitchen. She started with two apples, then three oranges, then reached for three of the next vaguely spherical object she spotted ( Read more... )

With things slowly getting back to normal, Jim figured it was time for him to get back to normal too. That meant not looking over his shoulder when he went out and not worrying about someone trying to control him or hurt him and not feeling lonely and worried about someone who'd been gone for a month ( Read more... )