Bruce had a steadily increasing collection of unreturned texts and messages on his phone, and today he was determined to return at least a few of them ( Read more... )

There were a few things that just didn't happen to Bruce, and among them were phone messages like the one he had gotten the other night. He hadn't been a large enough presence in anyone's life to be the chosen recipient of 'I'm going off on an adventure' calls in a very, very long time, and he wasn't entirely sure he liked it ( Read more... )

Now that a new semester was starting, Bruce was back to holding regular office hours. It was a little different than it had been last semester, though, because instead of taking some time out of his personal time at the hotel to make himself available to students for a few hours, office hours were looking more like the personal time, while his time ( Read more... )

There was a partly-bandaged dummy sitting in Bruce's office now. This was a mistake, because Bruce would not admit it, but he kept spotting it out of the corner of his eye and getting rather startled.

Other than that, he was here, settling in and feeling rather twitchy about even having an office again. His name was on the door. People could find ( Read more... )