Want to know how to make a party happen? Take two bored teenage girls, a crate of champagne and a whole lot of free time, and sooner or later, something's bound to turn up. On the Upper East Side, the spoiled spawn of the fabulously wealthy don't wait to get invites - they make the party come to them. And you can take the girls out of the city, but ( Read more... )

Raistlin still had the last book that the bookshelf had given him but in a very uncharacteristic move he hadn't been able to bring himself to read it yet. He hadn't sorted out what was stopping him, but it mattered little in the end. The book was there simply waiting for him to be ready ( Read more... )

Spotted: One former queen B looking not so regal as she learns just how the boy felt around that wolf.There are few things in life that are universal no matter what zip-code a girl hails from. The need to seek comfort in calories and clothes they wouldn't otherwise be caught dead in, was one of them. It was an old habit and in terms of Blair ( Read more... )

Murphy's Law. That's what it is, Lew thinks. What can go wrong will go wrong, and right when you're beginning to get nice and comfortable and believe that you're secure. He thought he'd left firefights behind, but apparently he'd been mistaken ( Read more... )

After all the crazy stuff which had happened the week before, Serena was actually glad things had quieted down. Maybe the events around her remained far from peaceful, but her own life had slowed back to dull. She'd had enough of everything being weird and messy; it was a relief to trade chaos for calm ( Read more... )

Today he was to arise early and help prepare the Dawn Treader for her voyage to the newly-discovered island. Jeremy had been looking forward to it, eager to be at sea again. 'twas no matter if the trip would only last a day. There would be many others; Caspian had said so. Being at sea was freeing in ways Jeremy could nae allow himself to be on ( Read more... )

Travelling by train was not nearly as exciting as some modern writers might have you believe. It was, however, quite necessary, especially when one was on the most important of business. So important was this business, in fact, that it was all too simple to overlook one's cramped surroundings, even when such cramped surroundings included the ( Read more... )

After weeks of preparations, the Dawn Treader was finally ready to begin her journey round the island. Her new crew was a curious mix of capable naval officers and those who had never set foot aboard a ship, but the last few weekends of training had given him confidence that they would all work well together ( Read more... )

Some time had passed since Jeremy had meandered toward the large building, preferring instead to bide his time out of doors. Once upon a time, he had felt at home in such places as the so-called compound. This, however, had been years past, since before he had joined the cause and sailed o'er the sea to fight the Colonials ( Read more... )

Every day Arya had woken up and the loss was still there, an empty space with aching sides, and so every day she'd made some small preparation and hoped that maybe the next day something would change.

She'd been stupid, she realized; nothing was going to change unless she changed it. She'd known since Halloween what she might have to do, and the ( Read more... )