The Dyslexicon of Love

Casey's always been good with words. He's clear, concise, direct; he says what he means, and (mostly) means what he says.

There's one thing, though, that he wants - no, needs - to say, for which, it seems, there are no words. The ABC falls short; he might as well try alpha, beta, gamma or, given the nature of the problem, ( Read more... )

X. La Roue de Fortune: Spinnin' Wheel Got to Go Round (double drabble)

It's been a good evening. Sure, Casey already knew the award was in the bag, but still - the thrill when your name's read out, the applause as you step up to the podium, the hundreds of eyes fixed on you as you read out the speech you'd prepared just-in-case; there's nothing ( Read more... )

XVI. La Maison Dieu: Tip My Hat to the New Constitution"We're all very excited about this deal." You'd never guess it from Calvin's flat monotone; maybe once you've made your first billion, nothing else rocks your boat. "The show's great, we love your work. Now it's up to us to build on that." He glances at some spreadsheets. "Viewing figures. We ( Read more... )

Two double drabbles and one regular one from the drabble request meme. I still have two outstanding, but they're going to turn into ficlets, I think. Now I feel guilty about the people who only got drabbles. Sorry, people-who-only-got-drabbles!

laylee asked for 'Dan and Casey being happy for no reason':

( A Certain Smile )

V. Le Hierophant: A Friend and a Confidant

Try as he may, Isaac cannot get it through his employees’ heads that this is a workplace and he is neither their friend nor their father. Still they come, unfazed, bringing him their tales of woe. He should hang out a shingle and charge them by the fifty-minute hour ( Read more... )

This isn't for challenge #154; I wrote it about a year ago for another challenge, where it withered like a violet by a mossy stone, or something. I quite liked it, though, so I've dug it out again for posterity.

I. Le Bateleur: Some Kind of WonderfulEvery boy needs a magical uncle. Someone to make cards vanish into thin air, coins appear from ( Read more... )

She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

There he was, washing his hands, mercifully zipped up and perfectly decent; and then suddenly there she was, tumbling into the bathtub, all tousled black hair and rumpled skirts and long, long legs. She sat up, noticed him, grinned (not at all embarrassed), shushed him with a finger to her lips, then slipped ( Read more... )

Drive My CarIt's a 1969 Lamborghini, red and glossy, almost mint; its engine purrs like an ecstatic tiger. Not a typical student's car by any manner of means, but then, nothing about Dan is typical ( Read more... )

Yesterday

His marriage hadn't been perfect. Casey would be the first - no; the second - to admit that. Some days he and Lisa seemed to have drifted so far apart that they could have been speaking different languages. Still, he'd thought it was at least stable, if only for Charlie's sake ( Read more... )

This Bird Has Flown

All student parties, all parties anywhere, they're pretty much identical: heat, noise, cigarettes, booze, loud voices and grasping, groping hands. Dan avoids them - he's a serious student now, oh yes - but tonight his roommate wouldn't let him off the hook. "Man, live a little!" he'd said.

I've lived, Dan doesn't tell him. I' ( Read more... )