Lately it seemed to Jim as if all he was destined to do was to endure painful falls from very high places ( Read more... )

If Jim had known he hadn't existed this past weekend, he might have been a little out of sorts. But, he didn't even realize anything had happened so he was fine. Just fine. Well, as fine as he usually was. He'd gotten out of bed early this morning, walking out of the house before anyone else had woken up. The day was already warm and Jim ( Read more... )

It was Jim's birthday ( Read more... )

Jim didn't have much to pack but what he had was all stuffed into his bags. All that was left was to wait around for his portal. It was scheduled for later tonight for some reason and after seeing that the only other portal back home was in a month's time, he'd had to take it ( Read more... )

Jim had pretty much repressed most everything that had happened to him over the past few weeks. No one had really asked him about it so that just made it easier to push it down and forget. He had other things to deal with anyway. Namely, graduation was less than a month off and he was going to have to make a decision on what he was going to do ( Read more... )

So, it looked like rain which meant Jim probably wasn't going to be venturing out to sprawl lazily on the deck like he'd originally planned. That was a bummer but Jim could live with it. He didn't much mind his room, after all. He had food, he had a phone and he had a bed ( Read more... )

So, Jim had gotten drunk last night. That wasn't surprising. He'd gotten drunk, gone out to the mainland, gotten a little drunker and then come home where he'd passed out. Getting up the following morning for class had been...interesting but he'd managed it and now he was back in his room, back in bed and recovering from that little bender ( Read more... )

Like most things in his life, Jim was taking everything about this new place in stride. He was in the past (somehow), he was in a place where people could read minds (not his favorite thing), and he was rooming with a gigantic wuss (that was kind of fun ( Read more... )