If you had been upstairs in the Compound or in the Hub at six in the evening of December 31, you might have thought your eyes were playing tricks on you, or that you'd once again been whisked off to some strange, new place. Within the blink of an eye, the rooms had changed, sparkling instantly with festive decorations, and it was all so ( Read more... )

There was a time, Lucy recalled, back in New Hampshire, when her class of small, uniformed children had been told to raise their hands if anyone they knew had been in a war - those ten-some years after World War II, there'd been a share of hands, mostly kids with uncles or more distant relations who'd gone to fight. Then, along with the standard ( Read more... )

Bret had thought this third Conchord business was going to finally be over, and the trouble he just knew was coming was going to be averted. He had trusted Jemaine would finally end it and get rid of Todd. What actually happened, though, was anything but"Well, you see, while I had him in a headlock, he sort of explained why he thought you shouldn't ( Read more... )