One of the many difficulties of being Johnny Maxwell* was having a distant father, both emotionally and geographically. It wasn't something he really thought of as a disadvantage most of the time, but his dad had left him at what was generally a rather... awkward age for most boys without bothering to ever explain to Johnny what made it so awkward ( Read more... )

Their meeting was completely chance, but even so, it was a meeting of the fucking minds. As Roger left the Compound with his guitar to set up and write somewhere along the inspiring shoreline, Bill was packing up his practice in the rec room. It seemed like an opportunity, and one that shouldn't have been wasted ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, Stephen Colbert was in New York every night, shouting his opinions and interviewing people and soaking in the love of his audience. He had a beautiful wife and children that he almost never saw, which he felt just added to the love. Couldn't be around too much, right ( Read more... )

Yorick walked along the boardwalk with 1812 at his side. Sure, he was stranded on the island of Dr. Moreau, but he had his own souped up robot that could fire lasers, so he guessed he could have been worse off ( Read more... )

Electricity made things much more accommodating. Add in the elevator that had mysteriously appeared, and while Babs was hardly beside herself, this place was proving potential ( Read more... )

Lewis Nixon has never been much for big parties. He'd been forced into them for most of his life, and his general impression was that of an exceedingly civilized battleground, where the primary goal was to make everyone else as miserable as possible while pretending you yourself weren't just as badly off. It was entirely false, a lot of glitter ( Read more... )

It had been a week, to the day, since she had woken up here. Woken to a peaceful place like this, right out of a nightmare. To say it had been too good to be true would be a great understatement. And yet...despite the convenience of it, she didn't wake up back in another nightmare the day after. Or any day after that. She spent almost her entire ( Read more... )

Zack missed the training room. He missed missions, real or simulated. He almost felt bad for not training harder. That was how badly he was missing missions. He felt like jumping out of a helicopter and landing onto a moving train. He felt like taking on the Wutai or AVALANCHE. Well maybe not those organizations exactly, but an enemy force at ( Read more... )

Hiro had been on the island for several weeks now. He couldn't believe it had almost been a month. It seemed like every day his 'celebrity' sighting list got longer and longer. He was happy enough with his life on the island, but he wouldn't be upset if his powers saw fit to start working again. He really had a lot to catch Ando up on ( Read more... )

There's a feeling in the air when I wake up that morning and it doesn't matter anymore if we're not going anywhere or if the war is still raging back home. It doesn't matter because we've got a couple of baseball games to run and with Dick showing up, the Easy team is almost purely the boys and I'm happy that it's almost like being home ( Read more... )