"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution" - Oscar Wilde

“You left me ( Read more... )

What makes you smile or laugh no matter what?The first time Sarah Jane tried a Jelly Baby, she had spit it out seconds later. Eric Jennings had offered it to her, sticky handed and gap toothed and horribly shy. It had been a love token, apparently, and eight year old Sarah had rejected it without knowing any better. When Eric began to cry, she ( Read more... )

Date“You be a good dog, K-9. I’m sure Sarah Jane will find you soon enough. She’s a bright girl, that one. You’ll love her ( Read more... )

What do you believe in?

I don’t know if I expected this sort of question when I agreed to this interview, to be honest. I know you’re trying to best understand the sort of experience we all had when we travelled with the Doctor. Maybe I should have. Working alongside UNIT and seeing aliens and such on Earth is one thing. Being out there, ( Read more... )

If your life was a story how would you write the final chapter?

Epilogue: Twenty-Nine Days LaterIn the end, he came too late. The sun slowly set behind the hill as he somberly stood in front of a tombstone. It was a rather unremarkable tombstone. He could not find it fit at all for this rather remarkable person. The words had already become ( Read more... )

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. ~William Shakespeare

From The Times
Januray 28, 2009
Universe mourns loss of saviour
One man’s life made all the difference and yet, no one can live forever.

Sarah Jane Smith
Most of the articles you will read in today’s papers will tell you this ( Read more... )

What are ten things that no one knows about you, and that you will not willingly tell anyone about?

15 February 1984
I don’t know why I am writing this. Perhaps it is to finally voice these secrets out in the open. Or, at least, as open as my journal ever shall be. I wish I could tell someone. I’ve never quite been one to keep secrets unless ( Read more... )

MagicThe stars sparkled around her. It was like magic: a truly breathtaking magic that Sarah Jane had never once bothered to appreciate before. In all her years, in all her travels she couldn’t believe that she had ever seen anything more magical than this. The moon glowed deep amber in the foreground and the trees clung with mildew that ( Read more... )

What makes your life complicated?

January 7, 2009
Earth Calendar
Ealing, England
I used to think that the most complicated part of my life came from my travels with the Doctor. Back then, I could never quite tell what time or even what planet we would wind up in on our next landing. Oh, don’t get me wrong. It was absolutely marvelous. I saw so ( Read more... )

Picture: underwater

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