A series of bad dreams the night before had left Rosalind in a rather out-of-sorts mood as she manned her shop. Given the small number of people she knew on the island, she figured no one would notice ( Read more... )

If Rosalind was rather smug today, well, who could blame her ( Read more... )

The books kept switching covers today. At one point the book she was flipping through appeared as a romance novel. Then, about an hour later, the same book had the cover of a cook book. Yet another hour later and it was a home gardening cover that looked back at her ( Read more... )

As was her wont, Rosalind came carefully down the stairs expecting to find the worst since the shop so often lived down to her expectations ( Read more... )

Her headache from the past two weeks seemed to be… gone? Rosalind was very cautiously optimistic about the sudden lack of pain ( Read more... )

Rosalind's headache from last week wasn't really better, but she was a little livelier in taking care of the shop and putting things in order today. Wryly, she thought, she was getting used to the headache ( Read more... )

Rosalind could be found in her shop today, like a good shop owner. (She was not a good shop owner, not really ( Read more... )

SPECIALS
Fried Indonesian Monkey Toes
Roasted Gingko Seeds
Japanese Salamanders on a stick

Kenzi might have been eating the salamander-on-a-stick just to weird out customers. Then again, maybe not.

It had seemed like a good day to be out in the park, especially since Rosalind had thought ahead (of course she had) and brought a coffee with her ( Read more... )

The shop had appeared normal today, right up until a customer opened a book and it started singing at them. After that customer had been assured that that was a bit of Fandom whimsy and not at all how the book usually reacted, Rosalind had waited until they'd paid for it, then checked the other books.

They all had songs in themRosalind retreated ( Read more... )