I'd come in early to bake bread, bringin William with me since Spike was nowhere to be found. I had him settled in his playpen for the majority of the day, only picking him up once I had dinner set out ( Read more... )

Dated October 7th, 2009:
Lisey stumbles into a rather familiar scene in the rec room.

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The kitchen is a complete and utter mess ( Read more... )

As improbable as it had seemed to Lisey, given that the island's weather had only that morning been entirely normal, there was one thing that a girl born and bred in Maine could tell without a second thought, and that was when snow was on the air. She'd finished up her kitchen shift this morning, stepped out of the compound into the unnaturally ( Read more... )

Dated May 29, 2009:
Normally Scott likes some variety in his literary diet, so when the compound bookshelf starts refusing to give him anything but novels by a writer named Stephen King, he's understandably curious. When it gives him a huge hardcover called The Stand, Scott reads it, and has an unsettling conversation with Lisey about their friends ( Read more... )

"And with that, I hope you enjoyed hearing from the nominees who came down to speak with me today. Thank you for listening ( Read more... )

Another freakishly perfect day on Fantasy Island.  Nick packed his bag -a habit he could bear to break even though he didn't have to carry his life on his back anymore.  The weight of a backpack was immensely comforting to Nick, whose world had shrunk significantly from a nine million square mile continent.  Sometimes Kojak came with him on his ( Read more... )

"The thing you guys have got to remember," Scott says, leaning forward on his stool and looking back at his students, "is that the first draft is just the spit it out draft. You've just got to spit it out, junior, if you know what I'm saying. Don't think too hard. It's gonna take awhile for your hand to lead your brain instead of the other way ( Read more... )

It's drawing closer and closer to a year since Lisey'd found herself on this island, and with every event like this that takes place she finds it harder to be surprised. From the stories she's heard about years past, they've gotten off lightly this time; cupcakes and paper doilies, but nothing seems to have changed the population overmuch. After ( Read more... )

There was a small part of Wyatt Cain who wasn't exactly too shocked by what he'd woken up as. That little part was the same one who acknowledged that an evil witch had taken over one of the most magical people in the O.Z. (one of two who could have done this with their power, had they seen fit to). That it was happening to other people just made it ( Read more... )