65.10. Character Dossier

Name someone you love. Evie
Name someone you admire. Tara
Name your closest friend. Lachlan
Name the relative you feel closest to. Tab
Name the person that you most jealous of. Lachlan
What is one indulgence you refuse to give up? Why? Smoking. I need something to keep me sane and smokes don’t leave me hungover.
What ( Read more... )

57.4. Ficlet: We all have people in our lives who have had a great impact on us, or steered us onto a path we might not otherwise have seen. Share with us such an encounter involving your muse and a person who's played an important part in their life

Co-written with drcampbell

[Follows THIS and THIS | Refers to Riley's Needlestick Plot]Riley watched ( Read more... )

52.1.B. “It's like there is nothing to report.”

[Continues Riley's NEEDLESTICK PLOT]

“… and then we piled all the boxes on top of each other and they were in like a pyramid shape and had like long piece out the side that was going to be steps. Then George thought that we could, like, throw a sheet over it and pretend they weren’t boxes, but ( Read more... )

52.1.E. “There are also higher risks. You’re an entrepreneurial spirit, and I am quite sure that you understand this. Risk and reward.”

[Follows THIS and THIS]Riley glanced at himself in the mirror as he quickly buttoned up his light blue dress shirt. He screwed his nose up as he analysed his appearance. A blue button-up and jeans were alright for ( Read more... )

49.2.E. "The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." ~ Michel de Montaigne

[Follows THIS & is part of Riley's ongoing Needlestick Plot]Riley paused at the doors of the Emergency Room at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and took a moment to brace himself as he looked up at the illuminated red and white ‘EMERGENCY ( Read more... )

44.3. “Better Get To Livin” by Dolly Parton

I said you'd better get to livin', givin'
Be willing and forgivin'
Cause all healin' has to start with you

INCLUDES ADULT THEMESRiley sat stiffly on the sofa in his living room, his leg bouncing up and down restlessly. He ran his tongue along the inside of his mouth as he listened to Beth cooking in ( Read more... )

43.1.G. "This was not part of the deal!"Riley sat in the hospital bed with his arms folded across his chest defensively. He stared at the wall at the end of the bed and his face harboured an unreadable expression as he ran his tongue slowly across his top lip. “To cut things,” he answered evenly. The psychologist had just asked him why he had ( Read more... )

42.2.G. "Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don’t know its happening until one day you feel like you’ve lost something, but you’re not sure what it is." - Robert McCammon

PAST SCENE: Set April, 2008…Riley pulled into a vacant parking space in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh. He unbuckled his seatbelt and then ( Read more... )