This is par for the course.

A young lady walks in, a little older looking than when she last came here, wearing nicely kept but cheap clothes for dancing. She's tired, her feet are dragging. She goes immediately to the bar and orders mate dulce. She receives, with her tea, a tiny Argentine flag ( Read more... )

OOM: Dancing for money.

[OOM: It begins.]

Maybe you've seen Riley in the last few days. He has walked in, realized that he is standing in Milliways, and walked right back out numerous times. Today, though, today is a good day. A good day. And so when he shoves the apartment door open and yells, "I want pork lo mei--" and then stops in his tracks when it's not the ( Read more... )

The front door opens and in saunters Carmela, hands the pockets of her cargo pants ( Read more... )

Charlie sits in a booth near the front door, willing his brother to walk through it ( Read more... )

At a booth, Eva is reading a newspaper, instead of the same, ragged copy of Argentine poems. Her boss handed it to her in the hopes that she would be kept up to date on modern events. He may come to regret this later.

"Oh bloody hellsThat, ladies and gentlemen, is the sound a werewolf makes when she steps through from an Ankh-Morpork in which the moon is new, into a bar in a pocket dimension in which the moon is currently full ( Read more... )

When Nita comes into the bar from her run around the lake today, she absently passes by the door like any other day. Then -- pauses, and backtracks a couple steps ( Read more... )

Things have been building up on Nita, and at this point, the best release she can think of is to simply run until she can stop thinking, for a while ( Read more... )

How bore to be dulling. Er... dulled to bore? No, wait, that's not it. Iesu mawr, Howell, dos i chwarae efo dy nain. Aros. Da, da.Some nights, having an extreme love affair with the walls of a place can be a very reassuring thing. Other nights, walls are simply the props that allow one to get through life with relative dignity (relative being the ( Read more... )