There's not a lot of good to be said for this island ( Read more... )

Bill's tryin' to sort through his thoughts, his emotions, like they're pieces of a gun to be taken apart, inspected, cleaned. But it ain't workin', 'cause when he tries to put 'em all together again they don't work right. They don't fit.

Two months, and he can't adapt. After Toccoa, after England and everything else, and it's this place he's havin ( Read more... )

Dated February 16, 2009:
After two days of moping in his room over Gene's absence, Joe gets several visitors, some advice, and the repudiation he'd hoped to avoid in the first place.

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Dated February 16, 2009:
Later that day, Joe and Gene meet in the halls of the compound, and Joe struggles to bring them back together.

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Dean wasn't experienced in throwing parties. The best he'd ever managed was getting three hunters in one place at a time, and that had taken the presence of not one, but three strippers. Dean didn't think that'd go over well for Shari's birthday, so it was fortunate that so many people had stepped up to give Shari a great birthday party ( Read more... )

One thing at a time, and at this very moment, thank God it's not Webster and Liebgott. Not that Skinny wouldn't do anything for those guys, but after this weekend, enough is enough: it's time for a little solo mission for Sgt. Wayne Sisk. No war, no drama, no nothing. He's in the moment. His attention is squarely on his dog tags now as he ambles ( Read more... )

Kara affixed the sign to the bulletin board carefully. The urge to pull her hands away from it was strong, but the time for pretending had passed. Kara had attached her name to the sign, had attached the label of addict to herself, and there she was damned tired of moving backwards. This was a step forward, even if it made her want to puke all ( Read more... )

"Roads go ever on and on..." Patricia McFarland sang quietly to herself, making up some of the words and half remembering others though she couldn't recall where the song was from ( Read more... )

Whatever was watching her had been there several days ( Read more... )

To Buck, it doesn't really matter whether or not everyone's in the right bodies or not. Hell, maybe that's even a little perk. Now that Easy's up a couple players (even if those players happen to be handicapped in strange ways), there's no way baseball isn't going forward as planned and he's gotten a cap, a glove, a baseball jersey and he's out ( Read more... )

The first thing I notice when I wake up is that my bed is much more comfortable than it was when I went to sleep. Then I open my eyes, and see that not only is it much larger, it's also got a sort of strange canopy over it, with some kind of image on it overhead that looks like the sky. There's a card on the pillow next to me that simply says To ( Read more... )