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Idle hands are the devil's tools; Snafu can feel them itching against the rough catch and drag of new denim on his thighs, trying to scratch it smooth and scratch that--that itch they always have. He's not going to be much use to the devil today, not enough room to pace off the excess energy in the frame of the door. Just the rec room to one side ( Read more... )

Dated December 11th, 2010:
Normally, I would not tell a pretty girl no when she asked me to dance. I was a good dancer, for the most part, and Savannah was a very pretty girl. She was also a very high girl and probably going to be a very sick girl if I didn't get her home soon.After Savannah accidentally takes drugs at the house party, Peter brings ( Read more... )

Even though this was his fourth winter on the island, Xander still couldn't believe the snow. He was a Southern California boy, could you really blame him? He'd seen snow once in his life before then, when it had snowed one night due to some magic thing. Giles had explained it but since when did Xander ever stay awake for those ( Read more... )

November 19th, 2010:
After Shari mentions her past in the public forum of Council speeches, she and Peter discuss their relationship. Shari determines she's not ready for anything serious and Peter moves out.

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Even with all the parties that I helped coordinate throughout the year, Tabula Rasa Day had become my favorite. I'm not sure who started the tradition, but civic-minded as I'd become, I appreciated the idea of us having our own, self-determined tradition that celebrated not some holiday brought from another culture, but us as a community. Half ( Read more... )

There was something wrong with living quietly, peacefully, and that was that I didn't get out much. Didn't make friends, and didn't see much of the ones I had. You worked your way into a pattern and stuck to it, and it felt okay, and shit got done and everyone was happy ( Read more... )

Let me tell you something, being alive is no walk in the park. Not if you want to do it right, at least, and given that I was on my second life, I kind of wanted to not screw it up. Being dead affords a person some serious perspective and I like to think that I carried some of that back with me when I found myself suddenly alive again, but the ( Read more... )

Joe had told her about a guitar she could use and Savannah had jumped on the opportunity. She'd taken it from the school, fully intending to put it back before the new term started. While school was out, though, she was going to use it. She'd played a bit in her hut and got a feel for the instrument, then decided to go out and play where she might ( Read more... )

I have to admit, I had wondered whether I was tempting fate by hosting a party on Halloween. Sure, the last Halloween had been mostly harmless and Tony and Pepper's party had gone off without a hitch. But I'd been on the island far too long to trust in its benevolence ( Read more... )