The island had done it again. Whether it was pure chance or benevolence none of them would ever know, but somehow, someway, the place had seen fit to give them all booze again ( Read more... )

In delicate kanji that looked like her mother's handwriting, the tag said, to O-Ren Ishii.O-Ren picked up the package, and after both listening and smelling it, she took off the simple cream paper and opened the box. Inside was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. A small manual named it the Accuracy International AS50 sniper rifle, and it ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, I tried to convince my dad to turn a lady into a tiger. I'd seen one of my dad's (considerably more successful) magician friends do it in a show, and afterward we'd gone backstage and he'd let me pet the tiger. I was really young; this was before I found out about real magic, and it was the coolest thing to me. Not because of ( Read more... )

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Once in a while, it seemed like, the jukebox liked to make jokes at Sarah's expense. She'd heard it all, or thought she had anyway, in her brief stay thus far on the island: every James Bond theme song known to man, "Secret Agent Man," that Cake song about a girl with a mind like a diamond, anything that even remotely touched on espionage, ( Read more... )

When the snow started, my first thought had been that Mab had somehow found me here. It seemed so much like that artificial winter in Chicago, sent by the Winter Queen to slow down the Summer Queen's enforcers who were after my hide. This might make it sound like she was trying to help me, but trust me, the motivations were a heck of a lot more ( Read more... )

It took me about five months on the island to realize that I was starting to get soft around the middle. It sounds ridiculous, right? I mean, no donuts and no pizza and none of McAnally's precious warm beer. Of course, I also wasn't spending any time running for my life. Looking back on it, it's kind of amazing that amount of running that I did ( Read more... )

Septimus would come. Thomasina had come to the conclusion on the way to her room, and as she passed through her own doorway she was quite determined that she was correct. He could deny all he liked, but she had found the equation, had she not? The moon, a waltz, a kiss... he must come, if the universe was to continue in its orderly manner. And if, ( Read more... )

Privately Mayko admits that maybe she and Rodney got off on the wrong foot, but whether or not she thinks Jill can do better, Jill seems pretty happy with this guy so Mayko's happy for her too. They don't talk about it much, outside of good-natured teasing, but as they walk along the beach together, every so often something slips out ( Read more... )

Remus Lupin, shockingly enough, was not working on anything related to the Island School ( Read more... )