Dairine got me to the church on time, hollaring out the window at the coachman while we rattled along the cobblestone streets. I hoped Charlie and Coraline were able to keep up in the coach behind.
But there were no other disruptions. Traffic moved smoothly, and before long, I saw the place where our revised wedding would take place. That's when
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Dated November 29th, 2011: Before things get too hectic, Steve & Danny have a bachelor-party evening that is both enjoyable, filled with friends, and slightly awkward (as is required for these kinds of things).
There were times when Jack thought the island wasn't such a bad place to live. Plenty of beaches, plenty of sun, lots of fishing: these were the things he'd been after for years and had never really gotten since the good old US Air Force seemed to think he wasn't replaceable. And while that felt good, being important, it didn't change the fact
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Four and a half years I'd been on the island. I'd lived and loved, I'd built something I was proud of, I'd cried and carried on. But only once had I ever come across a mysterious item from home, and over time, I'd forgotten that I, too, could be the target of anything so explicitly cruel
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It could easily be chalked up to her time in Outworld, but in the nearly two years that she'd been on the island of Tabula Rasa, one of easiest things to get accustomed to was the fact that half the inhabitants seemed to come from either one form of fiction or another, or a part in history that was over in her lifetime: world war two paratroopers,
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It was only fitting, Jane believed, that she would hold this party upon such an eventful day. Five years ago, she had arrived upon the island and her whole life had changed. She was no longer the young girl that she had once been and was no longer trapped in the confines of a time when her options were greatly limited. Though the date coincided,
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