Archive for March, 2010

Indirect

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Welcome to the Summers’ Rehab Clinic.

Tuesday

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

“I think we might have found a new game, Ripper.”

A New Kind of Sorry

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Post “Dead Things,” Buffy apologizes to Spike. Without saying a word.

Juxtaposition

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Absently, she wondered if this is how Angel felt when he first received his soul back.

In the Absence of Sun

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

The guy at the end of the bar whistles lowly to himself and mutters how he wishes he could be in that bastard’s place.

Faded

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Book remembers his childhood with a fineness, such as he finds in the thin pages of his ever-present Bible.

Black Market

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Zoe counts on both hands the number of times it has happened.

Garden of Simple

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Simon wonders if he’ll ever regret having a conscience.

The Soul to Crown

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Inara closed her eyes. Though decadence was her tool of trade, she rarely afforded it to herself outside of the necessities of her work. Long baths, thick, expensive creams, rare silks and brocades: all these were welcomed, expected of her. But rarely did she let her eyes slip shut and see the things she could not have.

In Between Tonight and Tomorrow

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

This is a story they tell on Mumbai, Book says, and the table goes quiet except for eating noises.

Magic Crazy As This

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

It was hard to find a well-moneyed planet this far out from the Core.

the game of charm and strange

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

There are words for what she is, words that are as old and forgotten as Earth-that-was. They are remembered, though, in the houses of the Companions, in the rituals they learn to perfection and the slight smile those of her kind wear like a second skin.