The sandwich shop stood in a busy part of town, across the street from an office building and between a pet shop and a video game store. Lunch breaks for employees at each of those buildings meant a visit to Queenie's, for one of their city-famous subs or a cup of the award-winning chili ( Read more... )

1). Backtagging: I do not tend to do this, and may or may not respond when someone does this to me. It's best to PM and ask beforehand ( Read more... )

Francine Tegtmeier is the only daughter of James Tegtmeier, the owner of Kudzu, a plantation planet near Tau Ceti. Though she loves the Earth-that-was classic crops that her father's slaves grow, she's kinda not big into the whole slavery thing, any more than she wants to simply marry and settle down and create heirs to the empire. So she left ( Read more... )

( The New, Improved Character Survey of Doom )

Angela:

My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was in high school. And it sucked. It was at stage 1, but even that scared the shit out of me, with biopsies and radiation and her right breast constantly hurting, misshapen and colored with the blue dye injected in it for imaging purposes. We called it Frankenboob, often shortened to ( Read more... )