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The thing about getting close to people was that it was mostly involuntary, the sort of thing that happened before a person could realize it. Sam, for his part, had spent the better part of his life trying to avoid exactly that, and had done a damn good job of it, too, keeping even the most important people in his life at a distance. Somehow, ( Read more... )

Most of the time, Sam remained pretty convinced that Marvin was adjusting to this place a hell of a lot better than he had (or ever would). Granted, that made a lot of sense - life for a dog was probably a lot simpler than a person's, whatever similarities Sam might have found in their backgrounds - but was still of note even so. The island was a ( Read more... )

Sam had actually considered the speed dating thing, for all of about thirty seconds before he decided that he just didn't care enough to put forth the effort it would almost certainly require. Yes, it would have been nice to meet some attractive girls, but he had plenty of friends fitting the same criteria, and anyway, dating had never much been ( Read more... )

That Sam hadn't seen this coming wasn't something that surprised him, in retrospect. He'd been told for most of his life that he had an unhealthy tendency to run headlong into things, to act without considering the consequences, and that sooner or later, he would find himself paying for it. More often than not, he managed to get out of such ( Read more... )

( Debut. )