Carwood Lipton was unsettled.
He eyed the bookshelf, and the variety of titles displayed, and his mouth set in a thin line of irritation.

It wasn’t so much that the bookcase was eager to provide him with titles like United States Army Logistics: The Normandy Invasion, 1944 and Manufacturing Systems Engineering: A Unified Approach to Manufacturing ( Read more... )

The one thing Joe's always known for certain is, you can't know anything for certain.  He can pretend sometimes, because his days follow a pattern now, and it's nice to think the pattern can go on relatively unbroken; but he knows better, he's always known better.  You can lose days in spite of it, lose people--you can get wrapped up in that ( Read more... )

Yesterday had been the day that had changed Johnny's life forever. Yesterday, 65 years ago, he'd jumped out of a perfectly good plane (not like some of the other planes that had been around his plane that night-- some of them had gotten shot right out of the sky, others blew up on the ground), and landed in Normandy ( Read more... )

At some point, the bookshelf in the rec room had started slipping pregnancy and child rearing books in with my normal selection of mystery novels and record albums. I guess the thing was trying to tell me something, despite the fact that I knew quite firmly that I wasn't pregnant -- Not for lack of trying, of course, but you can only expect so ( Read more... )

If there's one thing that absolutely can be said about Shane, it's that she's adaptable. She was so used to bouncing around from place to place that having somewhere she legitimately thought of as a home had still been a novelty back in California, something she'd never really had or even imagined possible before Jenny and her bungalow. Despite ( Read more... )

Dated May 25, 2009:
Gene and Joe celebrate their first anniversary, or: gay man cooks ethnic meal for partner, world is shocked and amazed.

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Between the chocolate cake and the bouncy castle, it was difficult to say who was more excited: Dean or Hera.

Hera had all the energy of a newly minted three year old, but Dean had consumed a hell of a lot of icing during the cake baking process. The cake itself had turned out quite well, which had everything to do with Shari. She'd even gone so ( Read more... )

Dated April 29, 2009:
On the first morning of opposite plot, Gene demands to know why there's a crippled queer in his bed.  Joe takes it about as well as can be expected.

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The Tusitala is the teller of tales, by direct translation. It's not the name that sits on the boat in the harbor here. The Icarus is the more ironic of the two, but it's not the Icarus I'm staring at by the time I've stumbled my way down to the dock to take the boat out. Considering the water, I'm doing little more than cleaning the hull, or so my ( Read more... )

Eden's sad. She just doesn't know why Babe's got to be so mean. She does her best for him, does her best to be a good girlfriend, but then he goes and says mean things. She spent ages trying to figure out what dress to wear, what made her boobs look awesome without making her bum look big. This one isn't too bad: it's a really pretty shade of ( Read more... )