Robin Goodfellow didn't cook often - which was not to say that he couldn't cook. Only that he was lazy as a hound in the summer heat. Robin could cook, he'd been around long enough for that. And there was at least one recipe he remembered off of the top of his very curly, peerlessly handsome head. Alice B. Toklas' special brownies - which, actually ( Read more... )

She was holding onto sleep. The part of her that knew something was wrong, that this wasn't a place she was supposed to be, that there could be danger was screaming in the back of her mind, but she shoved it down and away to hold onto those last moments of sleep. Because somewhere in her awareness, she knew she was lying on a beach, her back on the ( Read more... )

I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but I love TV. Growing up, we didn't always have a set, and when we did we never had cable, so when I say TV, what I really mean is the reruns of questionable 70s shows the local stations like to run during the day between The Price is Right and afternoon cartoons. B.J. and the Bear, Quincy, The Love Boat ( Read more... )

Closure was not a word that Sookie wanted to use for what she was going through ( Read more... )

Niko had only been on the island a few short weeks but it had been long enough for him to walk the perimeter of the living areas and establish the more basic patterns of survival. It might have seemed a bit much to someone else, but Niko had never really been the type of person to blithely accept new surroundings without testing them ( Read more... )

I haven't counted the days since I learned of Phedre's disappearance, though I've been tempted to. The passage of time is a tricky thing, in any event. Back home, my life seemed divided into periods marked by turmoil. Before being contracted to Delaunay's household and after. Before Skaldia. La Serenissima. Darsanga. Since arriving on the ( Read more... )

Sometimes, Juliet thought that the Island was terrifying and incredible all at once. Any place where she could still be a detective and yet be aware that there could be dinosaur-related crimes had to be incredibly scary and wonderful at the same time. She just really hoped she never had to deal with a dinosaur-related autopsy, because that was ( Read more... )

Zeke wasn't surprised to wake up to find Griffin still sleeping. He should have been, considering how often Griff got up before him and went banging around the kitchen looking for this and that before he went off to see Trixa or do whatever else he had planned for the day, but today, Zeke wasn't surprised. Zeke did sex like he did everything else ( Read more... )