Water ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I do things and I don't know why. Sometimes I wake up three times in a row. Sometimes, I see someone and I want to, like, cry or throw something and I don't know what they ever did to me. Sometimes, I get mad for no reason ( Read more... )

Dusk found Bridget (after rifling through first the clothes box for shorts, and then the games closet for a soccer ball) in a clearing near the compound, softly guiding the ball with her bare feet. She took it out to the middle of the would-be field, rolled it around under first her right foot and then her left. She exhaled ( Read more... )

I don't remember much, but I remember the fireflies. It was sort of like driving into a tunnel full of screaming lights. It was sort of like dying. They light up so that they can see each other in the dark. So that they know where to find each other. So that they can find their way to each other in the dark ( Read more... )

There is a place called Beyond.( cut for length and other things )

There was a hastily written note tacked to the bulletin board in rounded letters:

Congratulations to Dr. Rob Chase and The Doctor!Because they were great prats and didn't invite anyone to their wedding, there will be a wedding party for them this evening, the 30th of August at The Hub. Friends and acquaintances invited. Presents welcomed, but not ( Read more... )

Bee had decided it had been long enough ( Read more... )

Even from backstage, Tommy could hear the fans screaming from the auditorium, chanting his name, the occasional "I love you!", clapping their hands and stomping their feet in anticipation as they waited for their hero's entrance. So loud were the cries that he could barely hear himself think, and before he realized it, he was chewing on a ( Read more... )

If in doubt, turn to filing. Gus was sitting on the floor behind the IPD desk with his legs crossed, surrounded by loosely piled papers. Back on Solomon Gundy, his desk had been a nightmare, land contracts and letters and half finished essays and half read newspapers. When he was doing his desk shifts in the office, Gus at least tried to impose ( Read more... )

There's something about airplanes, Bee thought, as she peered out her tiny window at the world of pillowed clouds beneath the plane.  When you took a trip on a plane, you started in one place, complete with all its sights and sounds and smells, and then you got onto the plane, and in no time at all you were in an entirely new world - a world of ( Read more... )