Pete Campbell honestly didn't know what to do.

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Robbie had finally discovered something that made the boys incredibly happy. Now that he was finished with the improvements to their house, their little blue clapboard cottage--a few months shy of a year after he'd got the building materials, but better late than never was the saying, wasn't it?--he'd used the remaining to build a sort of sled just ( Read more... )

dated early August ( Read more... )

Leon wasn't very good with electronics. Even if he had been born in a more advanced age, he would not have been the sort to fiddle and tinker with the too-technical. He had had friends at Cambridge - physicists, chemists, and the like - who had, to his eyes, understood baffling truths about the physical world. When such topics arose in conversation ( Read more... )

When all was said and done, it looked like something out of a storybook ( Read more... )

When all was said and done, it looked like something out of a storybook ( Read more... )

In all the times I had taken myself to the trampoline to practice my tumbling, I had never once had someone stop to ask me for a lesson in the art. That it was one of Bill's brothers who ended up being the first to ask did not so much surprise as amuse me; I knew of the twins likely in far greater depth than they knew of me, and I knew from Bill's ( Read more... )

Leon was thirty ( Read more... )

The day was coming to a close as they opened the club, and it was a day that had just gotten weirder and weirder by the gorram second. Saffron had woken up with a boyfriend who was suddenly gay, had come across an ex-husband who was uncommonly cheery, and had made out with Major Perfect himself (who was no longer acting near as perfect) - and that ( Read more... )

God, it was a beautiful day outside. Chuck had woken up bright and early, with the sun almost, though in his bed in the compound he couldn't actually have known that. Usually he wasn't up and about until 11 or so, but it felt so good to be up early today that he couldn't imagine why. In fact, he thought he'd make it a part of the daily routine. The ( Read more... )