There were four discarded attempts at what looked like a shark (or quite possibly a dolphin). There was one rather adorable stuffed octopus. There was one baby mobile frame, decorated in blues and greens and coral reds. And there was one sullen teenager sat at a table muttering quite loudly about Stupid Boys and their even stupider girlfriends. ( Read more... )

Johnny didn't want to admit it, but it was a bit of an embarrassment when nothing mindbogglingly horrible happened at the carnival. He'd gone on rides, he'd gotten sick from too much candy, he'd gone on what may or may not have been a date with Coraline... But that was it. No mayhem, no tattooed man stealing souls, no forces of darkness running ( Read more... )

There were several go-karts lined up in a row, there was a pirate ship, there was a monorail and there was one teenage girl looking like a very happy, pleased explorer. There was so much to see and do and Coraline didn't know what to start with so she was going to fully explore all her options before making a decision ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, Johnny Maxwell had been quite good at naming things. That wasn't much really, but Johnny didn't have any other talents to go on. Yo-less was clever, Wobbler got computers, Bigmac could be hotwire a car in twenty seconds, and Kirsty was good at everything. Naming things was really all he could do up against competition like that ( Read more... )

Some days when Coraline woke up she really, really hated the island. For instance not ten minutes ago there were fourteen flowers, there were four shells and there was a hot cup of tea. And now, now there wasn't. There were, however, the remains of the fourteen flowers, there was bits of broken shells everywhere and there was one cup of tea cracked ( Read more... )

As much as Mark Zuckerberg liked to push for innovation, in some respects, he had always been a man of habit. Trying new things and expanding one's repertoire had its merits, of course, but there was only so much that one could accomplish in a day, and to Mark, narrowing them seemed to be a far more worthy cause than spreading himself thin. Thus, ( Read more... )

John Maxwell had decided that being an adult was much more difficult than it seemed. All sorts of unexpected things kept coming up, apparently with the sole intent of confusing him. Like shaving. He'd seen people do it all the time on the television and he vaguely remembered watching his father do it before he left home, but neither the tv or ( Read more... )

There seemed to be a few advantages to waking up in an older body; kissing boys got easier and funner yet more confusing, bikinis seemed to fit her a hell of a lot better then they did before and she absolutely loved doing things. She could run faster, longer and more elegantly- gone were the days of tripping over her own awkward growing limbs. She ( Read more... )

Dated August 5, 2011:
Um becomes a rather appropriate word when Johnny is suddenly faced with a grown up Coraline who wants him to help her out with her list of grown up things to do. A list that includes bikinis and Mister James's crazy training drills and guns and... kissing.

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Slipping the fishnet fingerless gloves up her arm, Delirium hummed happily as she slid into comfortable and familiar clothes. The dress was sweet, pink but the rest of it was her. The fishnets, the boots stolen from a fallen angel and her family's silver sigils hanging around her hips rather than her neck tied to a rather colourful belt. She was ( Read more... )