It had seemed a straightforward idea at the beginning of the term. Eventually being able to replace her bullets wasn't the only reason she'd taken metallurgy and chemistry, but it had seemed like the ability to do so would eventually result ( Read more... )

Theme nights, Saffron knew, were something she would no longer be able to think about without also thinking about Lloyd, on account of they were his idea in the first place. Despite the tinge of sadness that added to the event, she was still looking forward to them, and tonight's was sure to be a good one. They'd lost some staff lately due to more ( Read more... )

In a week, I'll be twenty-two years old, and I've already gotten married twice. Okay, technically three. I'm a retired hooker, a goddamn business owner, a husband and I guess I'm kind of a father. Okay, more than kind of ( Read more... )

Life on the island certain was never without its complications. They were different complications from the worlds they'd all come from, of course. Here the IRS was not going to make an unexpected visit, you weren't going to get pulled over for going ten over the limit and you didn't have to worry about racing to the bank before it closed. But there ( Read more... )

It'd been a good show, the crowd had been into it, the guys had been into it, and Billy relished the hard-earned pain in his arms and his fingertips, his muscles still jumping and flexing from their workout. The house lights had come up slightly, and music was blaring through the speakers as bodies jumped and moved on the crowded floor. Billy ( Read more... )

Billy sat on the couch in the rec room, his guitar in his lap with Ozzy a fuzzy heap asleep at his side. Every once in a while he plucked a string or played a few chords, strumming softly and singing snatches of old songs under his breath. He felt oddly detached from everything going on outside, and even from the people in the room with him, ( Read more... )

"Oz! Put that down! No, bad dog ( Read more... )

Ray would deny it till he turned blue in the face if anyone had ever asked him, but somehow fate had decided that one Stanley Raymond Kowalski was one of his best friends on the island. Yeah, who saw that one coming? Ray mostly blamed it on the fact that Stanley was all he had left from home and tried not to think too hard about it. So when one ( Read more... )

It was weird that the day he turned thirty-six was also the day he'd been on the island for exactly ten months, so Joe decided that he'd do something to commemorate it before holding some office hours. Nothing big, just something he'd been thinking about doing for a couple weeks already and so he stood in front of the bathroom mirror, a razor in ( Read more... )

It was on an evening like this that King found himself missing the road the most. His bike. His gang. He supposed he could've done without the gang at this point, since they were dead and all, but the road.. yeah, that was definitely high on the list. Probably the only thing on the list. King didn't really keep lists, in his head or otherwise. If ( Read more... )