Rodney McKay was in a mood. It was a bad one, and he didn't care who knew it. He didn't quite know why, and he wouldn't know all day until he saw a calendar, because it was almost a year since his ignoble arrival on the Island of Citrus-y Doom ( Read more... )

It was not entirely out of the ordinary, in the world Fleur came from, to open a door and find the door did not lead to where one expected it to. Or it hadn't been in certain places; Hogwarts had been rather terrible like that, always changing the placement of the staircases or throwing trick steps in inconvenient places, or so on. It had been one ( Read more... )

Vianne had devoted so much of her morning to the preparation for the evening's party that she had forgotten the posting of the election results, and had kept herself entirely and unintentionally in the dark as to her success until Obi-Wan had congratulated her when they passed each other in the hall. True enough, she had gone out to see her name ( Read more... )

For the struggling insurgents the world had shrunk to include only the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the café Corinth behind it, a world that was a myriad of smoke, dust, blood, mud, and rain. Enjolras had given his last orders, and soon the barricade would break and the small Parisian street that the students had kept safe for the French Republic since ( Read more... )

Ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned,
geong in geardum, þone god sende
folce to frofre; fyrenðearfe ongeat
þe hie ær drugon aldorlease
lange hwile. Him þæs liffrea,
wuldres wealdend, woroldare forgeaf;
Beowulf wæs breme blæd wide sprang),
Scyldes eafera Scedelandum in.Eowyn, daughter of Eomund, stood in the firm sands of the beach. To her back were ( Read more... )

It would seem that getting stabbed in the stomach and cracking one's skull would be likely to slow a person down, but clearly those people had never met Sophie Neveu. Even as a child, small illnesses never kept her out of trouble. It had gotten to the point where her Grandpere had to bring her to the Louvre so that he and his assistants could ( Read more... )

The air sat still and gauzy over the beach, the movement of the waves a mere ripple; nothing more than a vague whisper in the background. The day seemed still and sluggish, the sun a yellow blossom tracing away the hours in a lazy arc across the sky ( Read more... )

It was not so bad here now, perhaps, Fleur thought. The rain had cleared and the day was bright, if windy, and the wind didn't bother her so much. Her long, blonde hair had been braided to keep it out of her way. And, besides, there was her hut to return to whenever she wanted. The thought of it made her smile as she walked idly through the jungle ( Read more... )

There are points in every God's life when things get so utterly boring that one is reduced to staring contests with seagulls.

This was the second time Hermes had found himself in this particular predicament with this particular seagull. Now, it was personal ( Read more... )

Alrighty then ( Read more... )