Strange Island Happening Weekends happened to be Temperance's favorite kind of weekends, even when they shifted away from weekends. That was, of course, after the relaxed domestic weekends where she and her family-- her family-- could walk the beach and look for evidence of giant squid ( Read more... )

There was undercover. And then there was this.

While Ray had experience with the former, actually inhabiting a brand new body was something of a novelty. A terrifying, complain-til-he's-blue-in-the-face kind of novelty. And he might still have been complaining now, if he hadn't eventually taken a look in the mirror and spotted hair. Honest to ( Read more... )

Dated the morning of 25 June, 2010:
Eyes snapping open, Pepper gaped. For quite awhile, actually, in abject horror: At the room, her hands, the tangle of blonde hair in the bed beside her. She was absolutely not lifting the sheet.

"WHAT?!" she shrieked, shaking baby birds from their nests half a mile away. Sheet fisted in extremely masculine, all ( Read more... )

It was always a good day when the democratic process had been carried out without a hitch, and this day was no exception. The results of the latest Island Council election were in, and it was time to celebrate, not only the results, but the process itself. And given the number of hardships they endured on the island, a celebration was something ( Read more... )

Sometimes, the pie maker had a day that could only ever be described as greatThese sorts of days were few and far between for Ned, though the length between the good days had rapidly diminished over the past year. He tended to miss his family often, or his friends, and it wasn't hard to bring down the day for a man who spent nearly twenty years in ( Read more... )

It's true that the island has an awesome beach. Several, in fact. The problem is, on a tropical island, seeing hot people on a beach is a totally common occurrence. How much attention can being a hot redhead really get you when your boss is practically Amazonian with her hotness and Ygritte like, juggles fire? There's a level of competition here ( Read more... )

With the sun's last rays dwindling in the sky and all manner of friend and volunteer being so wonderfully helpful, Jane believed that New Pemberley was well-equipped for the evening's festivities. She had the loveliest of help from her friends who only deserved the most effusive words of praise for their tasks in helping with chairs, tables, and ( Read more... )

Though she wouldn't be taking any part in it, Karen enjoyed watching everyone else do the speed dating thing. It was nice seeing people connect, but even better seeing the mismatched dates. Not that she'd ever admit it out loud ( Read more... )

"Say cheese ( Read more... )

Sam had spent the morning working. It had been a good, fairly productive morning, and she thought that she might actually be getting somewhere instead of the futile banging her head against a wall that she'd been doing for some time now. It felt good to be working with numbers and equations and theories after a year of forced absence from anything ( Read more... )