One thing Geoffrey learned early on in life is that it will always - always - have downs to go with the ups. And the bigger the one, the bigger the other. The island's not any different in that respect. Sure, the actual details are different, but the fundamental truths of the universe hold firm ( Read more... )

On Thor's day, she made candy ( Read more... )

Today doesn't feel any different than any other day. He gets up early, gets his coffee, and instead of drinking it in the kitchen he takes it outside to the Compound steps, sits down on them and listens to the Island come awake ( Read more... )

Hal was getting round ( Read more... )

Everything changes, and you adjust. This far in and he can breathe easily enough, though there's a corner of him that's still raw and pained and will be for a time. He has faith. He has to. And if he's wrong in the end, he'll face that when it comes, but he'll fool himself for now for the snatches of happiness he's getting ( Read more... )

A few days after finding out about Mike, Tom and Neil, Eostre finally manages to talk to Neil about what she thinks.

Things go quietly, but not necessarily well, after that.

timed to evening on the 21st.

The silence was blessed.

The twins were asleep and Eostre was sitting at the kitchen table with an old copy of the The New York Times on the table. A cup of tea was slowly going cold at her at her elbow. It had been a long couple of days, and she wore dark circles under her eyes. She wasn't used to sleeping alone ( Read more... )

After several days on the island, Florence passes by Neil's hut and takes a moment to meet him. It's an interesting first meeting, but Florence finds she likes the young man.

The next day, she seeks out Eostre and the two women seem to bond over being the women in Mike's life: one created to bring blessings and the other created to never say a ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I didn't think anything of it. I came by, stuck my head in the door, and moved on. She isn't always in her room, and it wasn't the first time I checked around the compound and the grounds and didn't find her. Probably down on the beach. Whatever. I'll see her later, I thought, and wandered back upstairs for coffee ( Read more... )

Abby had been a guy for about a day now. Well, she'd been a guy before, but before she'd actually been in her own body, just with different equipment. This? Was definitely not her body. She'd realized that about the time she'd woken up in a hut by a stream when she distinctly recalled going to sleep curled up against Tim in a way that probably ( Read more... )