Jason didn't usually cook shirtless. He'd learned better after he'd given himself a quarter sized burn while frying bacon in his underwear.

But this was baking, and he'd gotten flour and water all over his shirt. It now rested in a pile of itself on the floor, ready for a small child or animal to make into a nest. Jason himself stirred away at ( Read more... )

Nearly nine months it's been that they've been working on the Green Arrow Estates, and even standing in the middle of the completed clutch of luxury cottages, Clark can't quite believe that it's finally finished ( Read more... )

Zoe didn't have any recollection of learning the things that people learned as they grew up over time, like how to read and that corners were right angles which meant they were ninety degrees, but she knew that she knew them. She also knew that even if she was now somehow older and taller and much more mature than her mother (who had run off to ( Read more... )

It was only fitting, Jane believed, that she would hold this party upon such an eventful day. Five years ago, she had arrived upon the island and her whole life had changed. She was no longer the young girl that she had once been and was no longer trapped in the confines of a time when her options were greatly limited. Though the date coincided, ( Read more... )

At this very moment on the island of Tabula Rasa, something remarkable was happening. It was a peculiar brand of remarkable, one that had the habit of showing up unplanned and unannounced and with rather alarming frequency. The thing that made this time different from other remarkable events was that it had to do with pie ( Read more... )

Wolf has found the big bouncy thing near the Compound.

Now that he's here, he wishes he would have found it earlier, because it's the very best thing on the island. Besides the good people, of course, and maybe the cows. They're all pretty great, but this is fun. This is the most fun he's had since Jack and that nice man let him ride in the back ( Read more... )

Excepting the years she'd lost to the Alliance, River was pretty sure this was the worst birthday she'd ever had. It wasn't so much that she cared about being fussed over; it was just a date that probably didn't even correspond exactly to the anniversary of the date she was born on Osiris. It was just that she was sure there wasn't anybody to ( Read more... )

A girl's got a right to complain. It's practically God-given. Men, on the whole, I've found to be stubborn, overemotional, hard-headed and cowardly crybabies- and it's hard to get a message through thick skulls like that. If we didn't push and prod or use our feminine wiles, I can assure you that humankind would not have made it to where we are ( Read more... )

There were days when Luce got overwhelmed by her present situation and found herself in the greenhouse, her hands busy as they could be until she felt like they would fall off. Today is one of those days. She'd been dreaming all night of Rachel and her smiles and her warmth and how her hair smelled and when Luce awoke, she'd been alone ( Read more... )

The good news for the patrons of the Winchester was that Archie had gotten better with his cooking. The bad news was that for a space of time, he had had to sacrifice his eaters to the pursuit of learning. Nothing had ever been inedible, and certainly nothing had ever caused one harm, but a regular patron with middling intelligence would have ( Read more... )