Scorched Earth
"À la claire fontaine m'en allai promener (I went for a walk to the clear blue fountain today) J'ai trouvé l'eau si belle que je m'y suis baignée (The water was so pretty I had to take a dip) Tu as le coeur à rire, moi, je l'ai à pleurer (Your heart...
Out Of Mind
"Where is my mind? Way out in the water See it swimmin'..." (The Pixies, Where Is My Mind?) It'd been one of those mornings on which Fran just hadn't felt like getting up at all. What good could come from it? She hadn't been able to picture...
The Real Boss of the House
He saw the pink flamingo stabbed into the front yard, the hokey, tacky mark on this house he'd always hated just a little. "no. why are we going to clara's?!"
The Master's Tools
"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things." (Terry Pratchett) "So these robot masters," Fran's roommate had asked her as she'd been playing Mega Man, "they're supposed to have been built to do just this one job, right?" The jackal had...
Chapter Fourteen: I'm Dying
A wide single story building painted in a wavey color scheme of purple and yellow with a white stripe separating the colors sits behind a large front yard with plastic flamingoes, flower gardens and a few cherry trees spread in an orderly fashion.
Project H
To say that today was out of the usual or even exciting would be a grave understatement. Just... Even as I write this now, it is still hard to convince myself that everything that...