"I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return." --Frida KahloGrissom had actually been away from the lab for a few days. It was easy enough to find someone to make sure the insects had food and water and were generally flourishing, with the doctors and patients and other scientists about. A few held some fears regarding the little ( Read more... )

Whenever everyone pulled together to do something like this, Dale was reminded just why they had something to celebrate. Tabula Rasa has begun as just a handful of people on an empty beach and everything it now was, was because of its residents pulling together and making something of their mutual situation ( Read more... )

Whenever everyone pulled together to do something like this, Dale was reminded just why they had something to celebrate. Tabula Rasa has begun as just a handful of people on an empty beach and everything it now was, was because of its residents pulling together and making something of their mutual situation ( Read more... )

Some days, it just wasn't all that worth getting out of bed. Not that Catherine Willows was ever the type to lie around all day and wallow, but even she had her days ( Read more... )

Lewis Nixon has never been much for big parties. He'd been forced into them for most of his life, and his general impression was that of an exceedingly civilized battleground, where the primary goal was to make everyone else as miserable as possible while pretending you yourself weren't just as badly off. It was entirely false, a lot of glitter ( Read more... )

It was a party Atia could be proud of. It was not Rome of course, not truly a Roman gathering. Yet, for this place and what she had to work with, it was stunning ( Read more... )

After a morning that strains credibility (having been framed, freed, shot, translated to Tabula Rasa, welcomed to the island by a lizard-cult leader, and then finding Sara - and hugging her, yeah, the less said about that the better and Nick - and getting hugged by him in a manly thought I'd never see you again, bro way, and finding out Gris and ( Read more... )

There weren't enough polite words Catherine could think up to describe exactly how she felt about her current crime scene ( Read more... )

Catherine was, for all intents and purposes, finally closing a casefile. She felt slightly relieved, but that was almost entirely dwarfed by her frustration over the entire damn case ( Read more... )

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains." --Walt Whitman

What was he doing out here?

Grissom wasn't sure anymore. Not in a worldly, existential way, but in a very practical what did I come out here ( Read more... )