All I have ever known is movement. Words, sounds, they are the second language that he and Barbara have taught me or have tried to. Words are imprecise; words are harder than the meaning of a smile or the tension in shoulders when a father looks at his errant daughter. But movement it is fleeting, quick to change its meaning from one moment to the ( Read more... )

It takes him a few hours to figure it out. They don't spend every fucking minute together, but, still, he's got used to being around her. Being around her made him feel kind of quiet in a way that he hasn't since Jingletown, lying side by side with Will on a single bed. Getting high. It's her thigs that seal it; there's nothing in her room when ( Read more... )

Though many people believe or have believed that Luna is a crackpot who has no idea what the word logic even means, the truth is that like any Ravenclaw, she is razor-sharp in that department. It's simply that the facts upon which she bases her logic are rather different than other people's facts ( Read more... )

If pressed, Teddy Altman would have readily admitted to living through some pretty bizarre stuff. There was only so much slipping through the time stream, getting caught up in fights between major super hero teams and finding yourself in the middle of religious galactic warfare you could experience before things started to shock you less- but they ( Read more... )

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It's what she sees every morning as she wakes up, without the assistance of any alarm. Somehow, over the past couple of months, she's officially switched to running on island time, but it's a little hard to celebrate that milestone when Annie can't help but feel like she's regressing every time she catches a glimpse of the bracelet dangling from ( Read more... )

The first time my dad took me hunting, I was a kid, still a few years off from double digits. It's not like I didn't know where meat came from, but I guess back then I still figured even the stuff my dad brought home was pretty much the same as the packaged meat my mom got at the store in its pink styrofoam and cling wrap. I knew it came from ( Read more... )

Dodge was in a reading class and he was working his ass off. It was kind of bullshit because he couldn't smoke or anything, but he had a stack of books that were at his level or whatever. Some of them were kind of cool There were ones where you got to a certain point and you had to pick a thing to happen, then you flipped around in the book. It ( Read more... )

She was trapped. She was kneeling behind the chair as it happened again, as Hammer froze in place, and Billy came towards him with the death ray. She wanted to stand up and tell him no, that he didn’t have to do this, to ask him why he would even want to do this, but no sound comes out ( Read more... )

O-Ren stands knee-deep in the surf, the wind whipping her hair around her cheeks. She feels something nudge her leg, and looks down to see a bright orange flash darting away. Just a fish. For a moment, she wonders what would happen if a shark happened to swim by, if it would attack her ( Read more... )