Dated February 26, 2011:
They've exchanged a handful of words, but Eames decides that he likes her instinctively, the way she cuts right to the point, the smile that curves her lips, and several shallower things, as well ( Read more... )

“How do you think we can help?” Miss Walters asks, and Jenny takes a deep breath, outwardly as calm as can be. She’s rehearsed this, planned in her head the things she needs to say, and however daunting it might be, there’s nothing she can lose that she hasn’t lost already. David, the promise of Oxford, her dignity, they’re all gone now; this is ( Read more... )

Whether or not the island was actually sentient was a thing Lily generally didn't consider very often ( Read more... )

When I'd first come up with the idea of Casino Night, I wasn't sure if it was even possible on the island. In retrospect, that might have been naive of me, because if there was anything I'd learned in over four years on Tabula Rasa, it was that its residents were capable of doing just about anything save getting home ( Read more... )

The election for the new Island Council term were finally finished, and I had the job of posting the results to the Compound bulletin board:

Tabula Rasa Island Council - Term 11

General Representatives:
Shari Cooper
Hermione Granger
Helen Magnus
Anne Shirley
Sookie Stackhouse

New Professional Representatives:Hunting/Fishing/Agriculture - Gale ( Read more... )

Time, it seemed, was fluid. Not just in that the inhabitants came from all times and places, but in that, if one wasn't careful, the days seemed to blur. Initially, Thomas had tried to ward it off, preventing himself from falling into any particular habits. However, the grindstone that was the passing of the days won out. He could only really ( Read more... )

The dress is red. Scarlet, actually. It seems like an important distinction. When I saw it in the clothes box, that seemed to matter anyway: one last chance to thumb my nose at what I left behind - symbolically, of course. I've been here more than a month and, okay, no, I'm not over what happened but it's time to be, to let it go. I can't fix ( Read more... )

The island had done it again. Whether it was pure chance or benevolence none of them would ever know, but somehow, someway, the place had seen fit to give them all booze again ( Read more... )

The relative monotony of the weather was something that still bothered Thomas, and although part of his continuing sense of displacement stemmed from the fact that it had only been a month since he'd arrived, he suspected that this, at least, was something he'd never really get used to. No place he'd lived before had been quite so static. He almost ( Read more... )

She'd worked herself to the bone.

She needed to get herself into shape. She needed it. It didn't seem to matter that there wasn't any performance. There wasn't any opening. There was only Nina, and now there was Lily with her eyes smiles and dark eyes, and Thomas with all his concern that she didn't understand ( Read more... )