It isn't until he's halfway down the boardwalk one evening, hating that he's forgotten to put on any sunscreen, that Mace realizes he's started to take the sun for granted. He's not sure when it happened, can't pinpoint a day when he stopped looking up at the bright smear of light in wonderment, and simply accepted it was going to be there every ( Read more... )

Dated October 6, 2011: Beatrice is devastated after finding her boyfriend in bed with another woman. So devastated, in fact, that she doesn't even notice that she's no longer lying on the floor of her brother's office. Luckily, Savannah arrives to provide a sympathetic ear and eventually breaks the news that Beatrice isn't in Market Shipborough ( Read more... )

I mentioned it over dinner two nights ago, and it was downhill from there ( Read more... )

In a kitchen on an island there was a hobbit. Not a small, comfortable hobbit kitchen, nor a great, lofty cavernous kitchen. It was merely the sort meant for cooking and that was quite enough for the hobbit in question. It was not the sort of kitchen that Bilbo was used to and he still found it rather unnerving that he was roughly the same ( Read more... )

Kon was drawing Savannah a picture. He'd told her he'd draw her something once upon a time, but he couldn't figure out what to draw. He still couldn't figure out what to draw, so he was just doodling a little. There were a slew of papers spread out along the desk. This paper was a drawing of the jukebox. That paper was a rather crude attempt ( Read more... )

The day had seemed so ordinary up until all the children turned blue. Vivid blue, not no-air blue. The island was a strange place and so Savannah just went with it, treating things as if they were normal even though the children were all blue. She thought they looked like Smurfs and she laughed to herself until each and every one of them had white ( Read more... )

Every morning, there it is ( Read more... )

If Logan was honest, which sometimes he was, he'd admit that he'd been a little off lately. Changes in his life had never gone over well, and loss- Well, anyone who'd seen him after his mother's death could have told you just how unstable loss made him ( Read more... )

It seemed like it had been so long since George was in a good mood that he'd almost forgotten what it felt like. For over a month now, it seemed as though there had always been a cloud over him, weighing him down with guilt. Of course none of it was his fault; no one could really be blamed for the way the island brought people and took them away, ( Read more... )

Joe was gone and Savannah had been told she was in charge of the Children's Office. After a bit of a panic attack she had jumped right in and taken over. That was what a person did, after all. You pulled yourself together and went on. Tim had helped her through the worst of her depression back home and Peter had helped her here. She had had the ( Read more... )