The wind moved along the beach, drifting the sand and tossing the waves ( Read more... )

Evey hated days like today.  They'd start out normal and fine, with a sunny day and nothing much going on, and then they'd unexpectedly crash into fiery bits.

Usually the crashing into bits part involved some wild animal feasting on her roses and Rollo shaking salty fishy muddy water all over her and then the clothesbox giving her only dirty ( Read more... )

Remus likely should have been in his hut at this time of night, in bed with his wife, yet instead he was to be found in the rec room, sat on a couch with a cup of tea and a book. The shelf had decided, by its own unique reasoning, to give him Catch-22 that morning, and he was around halfway finished ( Read more... )

It simply could not be put off any longer. While Anne could and had been altering the clothing she already owned, the fact was that there were only so many seams she could let out before there wasn't any fabric left to accommodate her. Two weeks ago she had only been showing if you knew her intimately enough and knew precisely what to look for. ( Read more... )

Jim could probably count the full hours of sleep he had in the last three days using only his two hands. It wasn’t really a surprise - he had expected it, even - but it didn’t stop him from feeling exhausted because of it ( Read more... )

Sola was ambulatory. That was the newest development in her... well, development- she'd gone from nothing to scooting across the floor in what seemed to be no time at all, and that lead to Padme actually trying to corral her. They'd sit, and play, and she'd be entertaining herself while Padme cracked a book on Social American Law, then something ( Read more... )

There was something seriously wrong with Peter Pan's mouth.

One of his teeth was loose. It felt like it was going to fall outHe didn't know when it had started getting loose, but he was almost positive that it wasn't his fault. Peter hadn't bumped into anything or got hit in the mouth or anything, but his front tooth was still wiggling and loose ( Read more... )

Padme was singing under her breath as she pulled Sola up into a sitting position, somehow amazed as her daughter slipped her hand back behind her, staring up at her mother from a completely self-supported stance that was much higher then usual ( Read more... )

"Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner,
sometimes I feel like my only friend is the city I live in,
the city of angels.
Lonely as I am, together we cry...The song might have been a little melancholy, but the guy singing it wasn't. He'd picked it, actually, for the mellow intensity, and because hell, he just felt like it ( Read more... )

Padme had quite the system going. She'd mentally split up the sky, and was carefully working on making a star map. She had them of the Earth - that was easily enough found in books, as were several for other planets ( Read more... )