[ OOM: And some of the lights below
Shine directly on the people I know;
Their lives take such strange shapes.
But how together they appear from above --
I guess that could be love.
My friends -- my friends,
I'm coming home.

And then the captain speaks:
"It's clear and 44 degrees."
But I know he means:
"If you feel like dancing
Dance with me."In ( Read more... )

It doesn't matter.  He keeps telling himself, it just doesn't matter.  Kim told him she'd see him next weekend.  Really, the zoo would still be there.  It was just the way that Lenora had informed him.  Like he was an appointment in a book. Not her father.

Part of him thought he deserved that.  But it still grated.

Casey and Sam were out of town on a ( Read more... )

Grace saunters out of Captain Perry's office, already tapping a cigarette from her pack, and tries not to smile. The guys are all looking at her, thinking she's in trouble with their new boss. Quite the opposite. Perry's an old friend from Vice and if Grace loved laughter any less, she'd warn Butch about being all UT in her face, at least for ( Read more... )

Out by the lake shore, Veronica is jogging, chasing the last hour or so of sunlight. It's a good time to run. There's just enough of a breeze across the water, just enough residual heat from when the sun was high; long shadows stretch across her path like railroad tracks ( Read more... )

The door opens, bringing in a scrawny, brown-haired, bespectacled boy carrying an obviously read paperback (A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda). He stops, blue eyes widening as he takes in the scenery.

He's been here before. It's just been years since then ( Read more... )

[OOM:   So take it as it comes
and be thankful when it's done
There's so many ways to act
and there's many shades of black.   ]

[Tag: Fiona Glenanne.]

Mills looks down at the napkin in his hand and then back up at the clock on the wall.

"I guess this is the time and the place."

He lifts the bar top and walks behind the bar, doing a rapid visual inventory.  The specials board looms.  He picks up the dry erase marker and taps it thoughtfully against his lips.

Specials
Wine
Microbrew Beer
Microbrew ( Read more... )

[OOM: Gordon had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day once.

Yesterday, it had some competitionWhen Gordon finally came in from walking the lake last night and went upstairs, he found his note to Alyx about going outside undisturbed on the bed. More importantly, he found the bed undisturbed as a whole. This... didn't surprise him, all things ( Read more... )

Veronica's been cooped up way too long ( Read more... )

There are only so many things one can do in a bar.

Well. A normal bar.

Veronica is taking part in most of them: lounging in a booth, nursing a beer, munching on something fried, and casually drawing city-destroying rampaging dinosaurs on her napkin.

Just another night.