It's Always Time - Chapter Five: Anything That You Can't Break
IT'S ALWAYS TIME Chapter Five: Anything That You Can't Break The gloom of a New Moon twilight settled over long stretches of grassy, undeveloped commercial lots. The elevated highway loomed ahead, but the onramp was nowhere in sight. Dee...
Chapter Four: Weird Science
IT'S ALWAYS TIME Act Two: Secret Origins Chapter Four: Weird Science "You promised." "I lied." "You don't lie." "Yes I do! I lie a lot! I lie all the time! I'm lying right now!" "I mean you don't make false promises....
Act One Interlude: We Could See What Was Underneath
IT'S ALWAYS TIME Act One Interlude: We Could See What Was Underneath Grey pre-dawn light filtered through the green batter caked on the bedroom window. "I think," Dee panted, and rolled over, making the green lake around him slosh. Lying on...
Chapter Three: That Wave
IT'S ALWAYS TIME Act One: Boy Meets Goo Chapter Three: That Wave The green girl startled with Dee's first spurt, giving him a searching glance over her shoulder. Her eyes soon glazed, lips parting in a lazy, helpless smile, watching as...
Chapter Two: A Lovely Way to Burn
IT'S ALWAYS TIME Act One: Boy Meets Goo Chapter Two: A Lovely Way to Burn Dee sighed and shook his head. A tip of a green tendril touched the puddle of ginger beer and siphoned it up. She belched, straightened herself out and asked in...
Chapter One: There Ain't Nothing in the World
IT'S ALWAYS TIME Act One: Boy Meets Goo Chapter One: There Ain't Nothing in the World... Dee reached into the refrigerator, peeled off the cellophane sealing the wide mouth of the metal mixing bowl, and chickened out. "I can't do...
It's Always Time - Chapter Seven: We End as We Began
A classic tale of boy loses goo ## Chapter Six: We End as We Began > Black Cherry pelted down the little hall. Her wings, cramped in the narrow corridor, trailed straight behind her, the train of a jilted bride fleeing her red wedding. Wing claws...
It's Always Time - Chapter Eight: A Way so Familiar
Girl on Goo ## A Way so Familiar > "...Welcome to the club," Galatea was saying into the phone over the noise of the blender. Ice and Nyquil cemented into a thick, medicinal green slurry. "Listen, I've been thinking, and maybe you should tell...
It's Always Time - Chapter Six: The Dark Side's Light
A classic tale of boy loses goo "Dee? Dee! Is that you? What are you doing here?" Dee glanced up at the tall, lean blond man threading his way through the crowd. "Hello, Yves." "Hey," Yves greeted, kicking away a stool and reclining backward...