It had been beyond strange ( Read more... )

As surgeons, we spend much of our lives indoors. Seventy hour shifts, buried deep in the O.R., emerging in the middle of the night. We get our sunlight from patient's windows. And the occasional ferryboat ride. Nature isn't something we really do.In just over two month's time, Meredith had acclimated to living on a magical tropical island in the ( Read more... )

Juno couldn't believe that she was having an argument about the dynamics of relationships with a woman who smelled like methylmethacrylate and was spending her evening cutting pictures of dogs out of magazines ( Read more... )

When curiosity came a-knockin', Addison was hardpressed to ignore it.

She wanted to know things, to dissect them and conquer them and be able to stand at the tip of those metaphorical Mount Everests and say 'I Know More About This Now'. It had pushed her through medical schools, through her fellowships, and through her specialities. When it came ( Read more... )

They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results. It's a solid definition, all things considered, but what happens when, after months of doing that exact same thing over and over again, you actually get that mythical different result? Are you suddenly sane?Jamie was standing in ( Read more... )

It had been a rather simple affair to gather Ysandre's few belongings, and with the assistance of Bill Weasley she was moved out of the Compound and into the Boarding House in short order. The place Jane's husband had built was charming, and Ysandre, though used to much more lavish quarters, found she liked it immensely. She had been informed there ( Read more... )

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He still hasn't been able to kill the bunnies and they follow Jack around all the time, like a swarm of adorable gerbil-ish little rats. Or whatever, something cute and fuzzy and white. Still, he'll get his courage up. Or he'll find someone with courage and then take credit, but the point is, they will be dinner ( Read more... )

The island had done it again. Whether it was pure chance or benevolence none of them would ever know, but somehow, someway, the place had seen fit to give them all booze again ( Read more... )

The island had done it again. Whether it was pure chance or benevolence none of them would ever know, but somehow, someway, the place had seen fit to give them all booze again ( Read more... )