"Dream well, sleep sweet, wake in peace."

Somewhere a door opens and closes.

[OOM: Teja learns first-hand why all the sane patrons stay inside when the full moon rides the sky.]

[OOM: The night Piotr returns, he and Kate talk.

And realized something's changed.]

[OOM: Sometimes, when people come to visit Shadow, they can get there on their own.

Bearing gifts.]

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There is not so much of the Sonezu book left to memorize as all that; Hektor thinks, perhaps, it will not be much longer before the door will open for him again. It will be good to see Troy once more, and to return to his family ( Read more... )

Dear Stitch, Sallie begins to write.

But wait. He sounds as though he's barely started with speaking English, let alone reading it.

"You know what, Bar? Can you just give this to him?" she asks, placing the blueberry pie on the table and letting it disappear. "He'll either know who it's from or won't care anyway. XiexieAs much as she hates to ( Read more... )

[In Milliways: There was a sending.

Out of Milliways: And some went the short way, and some took the longer path.

Very Out of Milliways: Because sometimes you have to wrap up a loose thread or two. Stories aren't a straight line. Stories are a lifetime of going of the path and finding your way home again ( Read more... )

Take a story, and bind it into a book. There is a cover, a title page, credits, and the information which a publisher adds. Dedication, acknowledgments, and the chapter heading before the story begins. Stories never begin in the beginning. They start in the middle; one trick first time writers are told is to put the second chapter firstStories ( Read more... )

There is a chair. It is a stool, a throne, an armchair. It is made out of metal, glass, wood, furs. It is huge too large to fit the section of the bar it is in; too large to fit the building at all, it is normal sized. It is not small. It is living vines which grow ever upward, it is rusted swords ( Read more... )