Capa needed something to do on this island other than stare at the sun and think about Mace. While the former was painful and straining on his eyes, the latter made for worse headaches and violent moodswings. He wasn't making any friends as it was - not that he was saving up a record or anything - and people just tended to... avoid him.

Which was ( Read more... )

What with the play and everything going on, Will Shakespeare had barely had time to write. Which, mind you, was a good thing as he was having more and more difficulty writing as he tried to progress with the play. It was difficult to decide what was important and what was not, who should be included and who shouldn't and it all turned into a great ( Read more... )

Delirium stood in the kitchen preparing breakfast and turned when Barnabas padded back in. "i dON't SEE mY siSSY bEHiND you bARnabAS," Delirium said to her doggie as she poured the pancake mix into a shaky and blobby ankh shape. Delirium sighed and put it in the pile of pancakes. "diD you Look PRopERLY? YeS baRnabAS, i knOW it wiLL Hurt iN A bit ( Read more... )

Dream walked into the rec room with a spiral bound notebook under one arm. To occupy himself lately he'd been writing... well, memoirs of a sort. His mortality lingered over his head like a storm cloud, and he felt as if he had some obligation to preserve himself somehow. And besides, he thought with some degree of pleasure, perhaps it would be ( Read more... )

Now that she was healed, Death had found her walks on the beach to be extremely productive. She'd come back today with a bag filled with beach glass and shells, as well as a few interesting bits of driftwood. She wasted no time getting glue from the craft supplies and began meticulously decorating her door in a mosaic that pleased her. It was ( Read more... )

Dream had spent a lot of time doing nothing once.

Trapped.
Observe.
Patience.
Watch my captor grow old and die. No satisfaction. Still here.
Waiting.They offered to set him free, of course. For eighty years they offered to set him free. In exchange for something. So small, they said. Power. Immortality. A promise that he wouldn't seek revenge ( Read more... )

House hated it when the rec room was filled with people. Especially this time, because as he stood in the doorway and surveyed the room, it was mostly filled with people he didn't likeLike that girl with the pink hair, the one who'd fucked Roger - well, okay, he didn't dislike her, she did have nice tits. Except her hair was black now - funny, ( Read more... )

Geoffrey didn't have Oliver's skull up on the stage with him, but it didn't seem to matter. It never had, really, though Geoffrey had managed to fool himself lately into believing that Oliver was only going to show up when he was thinking about him, and only when he was in the vicinity of the skull. Oliver, of course, showed up whenever and ( Read more... )

Death steps outside to drink her coffee and get away from the crowd in the Compound. She encounters a small herd of Brachiosaurs and in an attepmt to evade getting squished, she is hit by a tail and sent flying. She is hurt badly when Search and Rescue Team One finds her. They get her to the clinic, where Doctor House and Doctor Maturin perform ( Read more... )

There were only a select handful of scenes from American Psycho that really appealed to Brian. Arguably, there were other ways to make the afternoon go by but he couldn't see anything wrong with taking a break and watching someone else kill people was the next best thing to getting to kill people himself ( Read more... )