It's taken Karen a while to get everything in place. Last week, she discovered that she could climb one of the trees just opposite the compound and overhanging the boardwalk. That evening, she'd sat up in it until Rollie told her to come down. A few days after that, she'd discovered the water-balloons forgotten in the corner of Miss Charlie's ( Read more... )

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It was sheer boredom that found Helen at the bookshelves before her clinic shift, trying to find something to bring along with her so that the hours would go by just a little more quickly. She loved being a doctor and loved practicing medicine, even in a place as relatively healthy as the island, and she would take a handful of patched elbows and ( Read more... )

Gilderoy had been collecting all copies of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets that appeared on the bookshelf for him ever since that first copy had appeared for him back in early July. And since hastily moving out of the compound, he'd been storing all those copies in his hut. He had quite a collection, a disturbing number of books actually ( Read more... )

Believing one's child to be more advanced than they actually were was a fine tradition of parenthood, and like most fine traditions, William was inclined to dismiss it out of hand, or at least expose it to a great deal of skepticism. He'd read the literature.

So he resolutely did not believe that what Olivia was trying to say was babae, a ( Read more... )

Island life was something that was a hell of a lot slower than anything Jack had been used to back home but in some ways, in good ways, it was exactly what he needed. Back in Colorado or on some planet with a gate, Jack never managed to find the time to go fishing or watch the stars the way he could on the island. He wished that he had the ( Read more... )

For what it's worth, Rodney likes it on the island. Alright, he's a little antsy, but he can't really complain about being dumped on a tropical island after trekking around Mongolia. The weather's fabulous, the food is delicious, the people are (mostly) charming, and there's no lack of anything to do. There's nothing along the lines of his former ( Read more... )

Cooking had never been a talent of Carolyn's. In fact if anything it was pretty disastrous each time she tried to cook anything more complicated than scrambled eggs. But she had figured that since she was now stuck on the island and since she had more time on her hands than she was use to, that she could and would teach herself how to cook ( Read more... )

Hawkeye had first stumbled across the rec centre when searching for shelter from the monsoon, and since then had added it to his list of regular haunts. Its primary attraction was the television and the programmes it showed, which without exception were bright, gaudy, and starred people wearing some of the most ridiculous clothing Hawkeye had ever ( Read more... )

Gilderoy didn't usually read books that didn't have his name on the cover. This particular book, while not having his name on it, did have another name he recognized: Harry Potter. Furthermore the title promised to have something to say about the Chamber of Secrets. It had been from that very place that he'd been running when he ended up here, ( Read more... )