It had taken Fraser longer than expected to arrange the first meeting, but now that the day had at last come, Fraser couldn't help but feel as if it had all been worth it. At long last he was ready for his first ever Island Scouts meeting, and he'd set up a few small work areas on a shady spot on the beach ( Read more... )

Coraline changed out of the dull grey school uniform and into her normal clothes. She didn't have to wear the uniform, none of the other children did but Coraline thought her mother would be very disappointed with her if she didn't get use out of the five sizes too big jumper and the school skirt that was getting shorter and shorter as Coraline ( Read more... )

Coraline rolled over to press cold feet against Adam's legs. Except those weren't Adam's legs at all not unless his legs had gained fur. Coraline opened her eyes and let out a manly squeal at the sight of a rather large dog trying to suffocate and squash her. Coraline fell out of the bed and looked around her blearily. Rubbing her eyes she tried to ( Read more... )

If all of this was a nightmare, O-Ren wasn't waking up ( Read more... )

On Mondays Lucy had much to do. Ordinary classes, as well as tutoring with Miss Sto-Helit. Susan, as she called her when they weren't learning things, even though it made Lucy smile that her teacher shared a name with her sister ( Read more... )

James Lennox, curler, drug dealer, and finally, playwright, stood on the stage and looked down at the small group of children and a few parents. He was studying them, picturing them as dragons or evil queens or curlers, trying to decide where they would all fit into the play, although he knew Gordon would demand he have the last say. There was ( Read more... )

The day was clear and cool, at least by island standards and perhaps that was for the best given what passed what wedding finery in the eyes of one member of the wedding party. The breeze stirred the red leaves of the heart tree and if Sansa could never see much approval in the carved face - so solemn, then perhaps the whispers of the leaves could ( Read more... )

O-Ren Ishii sat on top of a dead man. He'd been a murderer, a yakuza lord, and a pedophile.

She didn't think the world would miss him.

Covered in blood, with her sword in her hand, she let her head fall back. She sucked in the air, tasting how heavy the coppery smell of the blood hung around, blood and sex and ( Read more... )

It wasn't unusual for Coin to be wandering apparently aimlessly, but usually he was looking for interesting things. He wasn't usually scowling slightly and kicking the occasional rock into the wall of the compound. Even here, life was absolutely no fair. Your friends went off even when they didn't have to ( Read more... )

It was amazing how completely normal an island in the middle of nowhere that seemed to be completely inhabited by fictional characters could be. It was so normal that Johnny had started drinking coffee again, secure in the knowledge that nothing was going to jump out from where it was lurking in his subconscious and start rearranging the universe ( Read more... )