Jari Perikkila Character Introduction - Prologue
**Prologue: 6 months earlier** To this day, it astounded Jari just how vulnerable one felt on a bicycle. The cosy, secure confines of a car made the chaotic peak of rush hour all but a simple observation, but that was certainly not the case for Jari;...
A Slippery Situation - Chapter 2
**Chapter 2: Mirror, Signal, Out-Manoeuvre** Not for the first time, Nathan found himself incredibly isolated with Tom's absence from his surroundings. With nothing to look at except the Chevette's cracked dashboard, fake-chromed instrument cluster...
A Slippery Situation - Chapter 1
**A Slippery Situation: Chapter 1** "Oh yeah, I saved up enough to get me some wheels. Nothin' fancy, mind you..." A sense of overwhelming incredulity had hit Tom upon hearing his boyfriend's news. Surely, he pondered, the savings he'd scraped up...
The Natural Selection - Chapter 1
**Chapter 1 ** **One Month Ago** It had been said that if a tree fell in a wood and no-one was around to hear it, then it wouldn't make a sound. At this present moment however, the likelihood of the only sizeable inhabitants of this particular...
The Natural Selection - Prologue
**Three years ago** Henry Pronghorn was never one to boast about the qualities people claimed he had, yet even he, though modestly, admitted his uncanny ability to maintain his cool, collected persona even when faced down by a hall of expectant eyes....
Flashback (Working Title) - Prologue
Flashback (Working Title) - Prologue _"Hey dork, what's two plus two? Don't tell me ya' can't even work that out?"_ _"Merril...Merrill, look at me; I'm here to help you. Just lie back and relax; everything will be alright...."_ _"Fuck off under the...
A Fish out of Water - Chapter 3
**Chapter 3: A Stick in the Mud** "_Welcome to Tidemarsh; Gateway to the Ocean_". I'll be honest; I kinda' expected a sign that was gifted such a picturesque location to advertise would be in better condition than the one at the foot of a path...
A Fish out of Water - Chapter 4
**Chapter 4: Lost and Found** Despite the ten-tonne behemoth strapped to Nathan's back, I wasn't getting any closer to deliver the sticky, foul underarm shot. "_Just blame it on the fact I'm covered in mud!"_ I panted, finding the time to mutter...
A Fish out of Water - Chapter 2
**Chapter 2: An Enticing Journey** I don't know why I agreed to this. I mean, it should go without saying that the only course of action for any fifteen-year-old at five thirty in the goddamn morning should be to lie, sprawled against your tainted,...
The Point of No Return (Part 1)
The evening's soft, cosseting breeze, its cooling gift to the world, gently extended its arms across the leaf-speckled, damp earth as an athletically tall, brown monkey forced two once-joined sections of a wire-mesh fence blocking his path to separate...
A Fish out of Water - Chapter 1
**Chapter 1 - The Night before** "And right _here_, Tommy-boy, is where _you'll_ be sleepin'." Were it not for the serenity with which Nathan outlined the hopelessness of my situation, I seriously would've thought he was joking. It had all been going...