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Polly and Zell go through a second dream trip, this time ending up in Polly's bedroom on Benne Seed. When Polly's brothers and sisters burst into the room, finding Polly and Zell in a very compromising position, Polly has some explaining to do. However, the unexpected appearance of Calvin helps Polly's fortysomething mother ( Read more... )

…ipsum erant deprehensa, respondisset dixissetque se semper bonorum ferramentorum studiosum fuisse, recitatis litteris debilitatus atque abiectus conscienta, repente conticuit.

Francis put his pen down and, with a sigh, looked at the clock. Two a.m. For the third night in a row, he couldn’t sleep. After searching the liquor cabinet in the kitchen- ( Read more... )

This place doesn't need people with superpowers? Uh huh. Someone sold me a bill of goods on that one, because here I am, resident of this island for under a month, and I'm climbing a water tower as fast as I can, a device that extracts energy from an artificial region of subspace-time flung over my back so I can try to stop a space station from ( Read more... )

The space station hung in space above the world, a white dot in an expanse of blackness, a mirror to the islands below, swallowed up and surrounded by blue ocean as they were. Inside, it bustled with fresh motion as people walked, talked, worked; every few minutes, in rooms and corridors, someone passed the hidden mechanisms of an Aperture Science ( Read more... )

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... )

I have to admit, I had wondered whether I was tempting fate by hosting a party on Halloween. Sure, the last Halloween had been mostly harmless and Tony and Pepper's party had gone off without a hitch. But I'd been on the island far too long to trust in its benevolence ( Read more... )

Worse than just boring, sometimes the long spans of free time in the clinic without a patient to tend to could prove to be downright dangerous. Or they could in Fitch's case, where too much free time lead to too much thinking about things that may not have struck him otherwise ( Read more... )

I arrived in the kitchen a little late for lunch, but there were leftovers and I was grateful for them. I got my meal together, putting the sandwich on my plate, but one thing that was missing was cutlery, so I went into the kitchen and rummaged around in some of the drawers.

I paused when I heard myself humming. I looked up. I suddenly realized ( Read more... )

Apparently dealing with the history of economy wasn’t ‘in the scope of our Mythology class, Guy’. At least not to the extent that Guy would have liked to see it. So, instead of arguing with Daniel (who by the by did little more than show up lately), he took the microphone and started his weekly show with an example in Greek mythology (annex history ( Read more... )