Love Lost, Chapter 9b: Dispositions, concluded.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 9b: Dispositions, concluded. * * * Percival sat between Joe and Burner: physically, as they were crowded around Joe's video game console; and skillfully, as Percival was giving Joe the business in-game, but was...
Diaphanous Perception, Chapter 1: An Implausible Proposition, As Told By Maggie
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Love Lost, Chapter 9a: Dispositions.
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Love Lost, Chapter 8b: Confrontations, concluded.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 8b: Confrontations, concluded. * * * "At least it's a beautiful view," Carlos remarked on the panorama from the top of an unnamed peak north of Allylidene Forest. The spring weather had thinned the snow, although it...
Love Lost, Chapter 8a: Confrontations.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 8a: Confrontations. * * * Joe awoke to a purple sunrise. Most of the vernal equinox sunlight filtered through Marianne as she occluded much of his east-facing window. Grace stirred beside him, and gave him a gentle...
Love Lost, Chapter 6b: Ascensions, concluded.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 6b: Ascensions, concluded. * * * The next morning proved quite cold but without new snow falling, leaving only a few inches in places on the ground from the day before. Burner escorted Joe to school, providing a...
Love Lost, Chapter 7b: Projections, concluded.
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Waterlogged
* * * Waterlogged, The Diary. * * * Seventeenth Day of May in the year of our Lord 1863. Having emerged from my prison, I, Magnus Horgstaal, find myself to now be the only survivor of the good ship Pembroke's wreck. Barricaded in a...
Can't Escape, Part II: Mischievous
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Can't Escape, Part IX: Thoroughly Cunning
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Can't Escape, Part VIII: Often Lost in Thought
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Can't Escape, Part VII: Hot Tempered
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