From My Mother's Line

It's a question that I always get asked: "Why are you so different from your sisters?" This is the best explanation I can muster:

My sister Layla, the eldest girl, is definitely the pride and joy of my parents. Many eldest children are. Many eldest daughters become 'daddy's girl' at some point in life. After all even as a little ( Read more... )

A/N: Some exploration I do intend to write for a later chapter in the novel. In which Emil muses on the strange twists of fate his passions have brought him to. Some activist angst, a bit of Emil/Marce, and inevitably introspection.

Half-Light

It was far too cold, even for February. Yet Emil knew that there was no way he and his friends would move ( Read more... )