Dated May 15, 2009:
After his anger gets the better of him in front of Ilse, Edgar decides it's time to get some help, and heads for the Psych Office.

[ HERE | FTB | PG]

Dated August 11, 2009:
After the first homeplot, Violet is sitting on the beach while a storm rolls in. She'd like her privacy, but Edgar's persistent.

[ HERE | Ongoing | PG]

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There were always moments when life said if you don't do this right now I'm going to kick your ass so hard you're gonna nurse it for years. Today was the day. Dr. Carolyn Lam was puttering, if it could be called anything. She hated puttering, but she just couldn't seem to settle. Sitting at the kitchen had lasted a fifteen minutes before she ( Read more... )

If Alain closed his eyes, it could almost be a fair day in Gilead. The sounds and smells were all the same. There was the sound children laughing, trotted around by Glue Boy,and Jolly, getting their faces painted, and themselves entirely covered in flowers by Ilse and some of the other girls. Boys participating in impromptu footraces with their ( Read more... )

Ellen liked changing up her routine now and again, and with the return of hot weather after the freak blizzard, she'd scrubbed through the clothes box to find a bathing suit that wasn't half a rag and three pieces of string. She grabbed a blanket and hit the beach, dropping her sandals, blanket, book, and sunglasses in the sand. She stretched a ( Read more... )

At one point or another, many people can say they have lost everything. It's something commonly said when houses burn, when parents die, and when difficult choices lead to horrible mistakes. In the case of Violet Baudelaire, she had been in all three of those situations in relatively short order. That, she supposed, was how she'd ended up in her ( Read more... )

"Spring cleaning" was always a relative term in the Brown house when Lily was growing up. Bernadette would take a notion, some time in August, maybe, or around Halloween, or when there was snow on the ground, and all the cupboards would be emptied and every rug in the house would be hung up and beaten until everything tasted like dust ( Read more... )

"And with that, I hope you enjoyed hearing from the nominees who came down to speak with me today. Thank you for listening ( Read more... )

All things considered -- her near wedding to Rodney, for one, and the fact that John and Mayko had both witnessed her madness -- Jill was feeling relatively cheerful. The disaster had been averted with as little bloodshed as possible and she was determined not to let the clothes box and its endless supply of wedding dresses get her down. If Mayko ( Read more... )

"I'm wise to your ways lady, sai," Alain said with a grin as Magdalena tried for the third time that day to dump him unceremoniously into the ocean ( Read more... )

Dated April 15, 2009 :
Edgar finally makes his way to the Compound, but before he can get inside, he meets the last person he'd expected to see.

[ HERE | Done | Rated G]