I'm sorry that I'm going to start sounding like a parrot, but Halloween is really Samhain with a different name, isn't it ( Read more... )

[Daine received a dose of the Other Vaccine. She is sitting on the floor with the telephone in her hands, trying to decide if this pain is from that shot or something more normal.]

Hello? Am I holding this telephone, or whatever you call it, the right way this time?

[A pause as she stops talking to hold her abdomen for a bit. When she picks back ( Read more... )

[Daine...does not know what a telephone is. Nor pictures, televisions, gas stoves, refrigerators, or anything else from America, for that matter. After waking up on someone else’s bed and wandering confused throughout the house, she finally picks up the telephone, holds it the wrong way, and begins to speak. She thinks this is all rather insane, ( Read more... )