"Lanky lizards!"

Weetzie couldn't believe her eyes when she and Slinkster Dog entered the pool area. She was decked out in the best retro swimwear she could find: a polka-dotted red bikini that Esther Williams could have worn. She wore a flower in her spit-curled blond hair, too, just like Esther, and perfect red lipstick and a bracelet with ( Read more... )

Today, she has decided that it's the perfect time to go for a walk in the park. She had a new black, lace parasol that has just been waiting for her to try it out. Besides, going out for a walk means that her hands will be free. That's an advantage for her. No shopping bags to prevent the use of one pretty parasol ( Read more... )

Birthdays aren't a particularly big deal for him. They haven't been for years. They're meant to be a family occasion, after all, and the only family he's had for the past several years have been the people he's stationed with. Mostly, birthdays are just an excuse for a party and alcohol and everyone letting their hair down a bit and getting some ( Read more... )

She'd come out into the park initially to find Kuroraka, but he wasn't in his usual tree. Perhaps he was flying out around the city, watching over it. River likes to imagine such things, sometimes, now that she can imagine them ( Read more... )

I am not a monster. My name is Vincent Valentine. I was born in the city of Junon, to Grimoire and Eleanor Valentine, their only child. My mother returned to the Lifestream when I was four, my father not so very long before my own death. The logical voice comes back to remind him that he is... no longer dead and can't claim it. That for thirty ( Read more... )

Weetzie and Slinkster Dog strode purposefully through the shopping center, planning for the retro pool party that she and River wanted to have. They would have started on it earlier, but then they had the blackout and stuff got broken - maybe from people bumping around in the dark? Anyway, it looked like everything was back to normal now, so ( Read more... )

Playing pool alone is never as much fun as playing with a partner but what the hell: it's a great fucking way to keep in form. When he was a kid he played three, four times a week -- after he got to Tharsis, that is; it was pretty much part of the culture -- and he's still good at it ( Read more... )

Weetzie hadn't visited the pool in a really long time - actually not since that day she met Sawyer, which may have also been the last time she had said "lanky lizards!"

But she promised Spader that she would hang out there more often, and he was fun and she wanted to hang out with him some more, so one day Weetzie put on her fake-Pucci print ( Read more... )

[Finale: They're not gonna see this coming.]

[ On Miranda: I know the secret. ]