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The whole time difference thing was sort of like having a weird form of jetlag, but if Karen was going by the island calendar, then it was a bit of a nice surprise to find her birthday had come a bit early ( Read more... )

Book was a gen'rly accommodating man, familiarity with large weapons aside, and had accommodated himself to the island as best he could. There was food, and fresh water, and plenty of good people doing their best to live their lives in peace. A sight calmer than the black, a fact which he knew got under the Captain's skin more often than not. But ( Read more... )

It is brilliant weather for a tourney, if a bit hot for those wearing army. The list at Summerfell is decorated in flowers and the brightly-coloured flags Sansa gave Robb for his last name day. There is a boar roasting for the celebration after-downwind, of course-and logs pulled up or blankets spread for people to sit down ( Read more... )

This has got to be damn near the worst day Bill Pardy's ever had. No contest. It was a real test on the nerves. He'd just shot the damn Mayor in the head, brains splattered all over, the whole damn town had gone apeshit, he was covered in blood and muck and God only knew what else, and the smell in the Grant's mansion was bordering right on ( Read more... )

Chòu mǎniào o' n' island ( Read more... )

Of all the weekends this island threw at him, Han had to say that he liked this one the best ( Read more... )

It was a morning, just as any other on the Island. At least for Kaylee it was the same. Waking early-ish, as it was sometime after the sun had fully risen and was promising a delightful day. It wasn't yet too hot and the breeze was something without that unbearable humidity, refreshing and cool, barely to be felt at that! After getting dressed and ( Read more... )

Having taken a moment to realize that she looked more like Miss Fanny Gardiner of Layton Hall than Mrs. Bennet, mother of five daughters and married these twenty-two years, she found that she liked the idea very much indeed, and she would not question how it had happened that she regained her smooth, dark hair and slim, girlish figure ( Read more... )

The thing about getting old was that you stopped really noticing all those little aches and pains that came along with aging; they just became part of what you expected to experience each day. You never really noticed them, that is, until one day you woke up and they suddenly weren't there anymore.

Ruth-Anne wasn't sure quite what was going on ( Read more... )