"EXTRA, EXTRA! BILLIONAIRE BRUCE BITES IN A BOARDING HOUSE ( Read more... )

Showtime. Rita couldn't keep the nervous shiver from her spine, every time that curtain went up. The band was warming up, and the tables were starting to fill.

She held her cigarette holder out (in one elegant gloved hand) for the nearest gentleman to light. Her dress was perfect, and so was her hair. She herself didn't take the stage until last ( Read more... )

Who was Luke? Luke was a smoky bar on a rainy summer evening filled with the wail of a lonely sax. Luke was a classy dame with a box of matches and a story to tell. Luke was money to burn and living with regret in the light of a sun that never, ever rose ( Read more... )

Like many other things around the island, Cafe Fina had undergone a bit of a change. Gone was the rather boring name of the past replaced by a new name that proudly advertised what Mr. Hatter's establishment was all about (even if his place didn't reside on Seventh Street ( Read more... )

Jonothon 'Lips' Starsmore frowned to himself as he settled in behind the counter of the music shop, surrounded by instruments (mostly of the musical variety, but he had a few of slightly more questionable legality tucked away just out of hands' reach at all times) and opened up his morning paper. There on the front page was a headline that made him ( Read more... )

The Community Center was decorated in Fandom's signature blue and gold, with streamers and flags and the odd Fighting Gremlin banner. There was a tasteful amount of glitter among the decorations, assuming that person in charge of taste was a four year old hyped up on candy and Red Bull while huffing glue made from unicorns ( Read more... )

"No." Bo crossed her arms behind the bar and ignored the balloon Tiny was holding out to her. "I already told you my terms. The whole thing or no deal."

Tiny held up his phone in the other hand, then made a show of putting it away. Bo just shook her head.

"No. I don't care if you record me. I'm just not doing it without the quid pro quo." She ( Read more... )

Momoko had made the decision late last night that she was going to spend today exploring the sewers for clues to this weirdness ( Read more... )

"You are still here," Drac rounded a corner and found the woman still in the lobby. "Ms Akatsutsumi ( Read more... )

This couldn't be right ( Read more... )