There wasn't anything wrong with randomly buying a fish, that's what Amanda was telling herself as she scanned each of the aquariums in the shop. She wasn't exactly the nurturing sort, not openly or overly so anyway, but fish weren't that hard to take care of, were they? She didn't know much about fish, nor did she have a lot of spending money, but ( Read more... )

Even after Loki had told her that the village would sometimes give you a job, Rikki hadn't really believed him. However, that morning there was an envelope with her name on it. Inside was a key and a note that said Congratulations, new manager of Reefer Madness. She barked out a laugh wondering why the village would give her a shop that sold ( Read more... )

The clothes that Maisie had been taken in were gone and replaced with a yellow dress from the pawn shop. Changed, because the little girl had been so scared she had wet herself without knowing it. Now, though she was still scared, Maisie found enough strength to hold it together. It was probably due to the fact that she believed in Tom and Jo and ( Read more... )

Silence was a virtue when it came to being a spy. It was something that any agency looked for because if you happened to be captured by the enemy, the agency, or government, wanted to be sure you wouldn't talk. It was often a large fallacy. In the end, you always talked. It might take months, or years, but in the end, you talked. This was something ( Read more... )

The books started showing up first, appearing on the coffee table in the morning and the middle of the day, and he and Maggie had left them there when they couldn't figure out who they belonged to or what to do with them; but then they started cluttering up his night table and his desk, and he finally rounded them all up and filled a shelf on his ( Read more... )