Are you living on the farm? Are you passingly familiar to Windows 95 ( Read more... )

Cooper Farm:Sonia has managed to fob Ralph off on a babysitter and is currently sprawled on the top of the bunker, enjoying the relative silence of Outside. (Tweeting birds, wind, and the occasional sound of people Doing Stuff is silence compared to Very Loud Baby ( Read more... )

Springtime!

Flowers!

WOOOOOO!

(rollroll burrowburrow hopskipjump)

JOY!

There is a little robot hanging around the Cooper farm.

No. No, not that one. That is a big robot ( Read more... )

So you might have noticed there's a big ol' robot parked out back of the bunker at the Cooper farm. It's large and green and looks very battered ( Read more... )

[ Dealing with a world gone mad.]

One particular day, Oliver tries to start his van, ready for another day of patrolling and mopingThe battery is dead, though he doesn't know this: all he knows is that the engine sounds sick and won't run ( Read more... )

A suave-looking black man strolls into the farm, looking around assessingly.

"Well, this is nice."

The evening's fast approaching actual night when two figures can be made out on the road approaching the Cooper Farm. Deadboy and Mel are pressing on, not really talking apart from Mel occasionally pointing out features as the come into view. In one hand she's carrying the skull of some large horned demon, and tucked into her belt is a stuffed toy ( Read more... )

Cooper Farm:Sonia is really not into this whole pregnancy thing. Not only has it required a total change in wardrobe and lessened activity, but it's been giving her such joys as indigestion, cramps, and similar indignities. Right now, she's sprawled under a tree, trying to stop up a nosebleed and hoping that this, too, is a normal thing and not ( Read more... )

There are too many people inside. Too many strangers, too close, stepping wrong, talking wrong, looking wrong and all in all, inside is just wrong.

Which is why Iskender is outside the Cooper house, contemplating the kraken pond.

At least, he's looking in that general direction.