"Out of Africa"

...up long layers of grass-land with thorn-trees and hills on it, and creates vast silvery expanses of water in the dry grass. More animals: The duck concluded their orbit over the glass-clear sky, to swoop noiselessly into the dark water like so many arrow-heads let off backwards by a heavenly archer. (The Iguana) swish away, there is a flash of ...

Week Four - Sexual Ethics

...a soft-lit haven, where the water pressure is just hard enough it...your naked body dripping streams of water, displayed. Vulnerable, in a place ..., his tongue hot and catching water, his hair clinging wet to ... between your brother’s legs. Water like a crystalline rain come ... humid stall. His eyes are dark and intense, almost impassible, but ... nods, slowly, shutting off the water, wrapping you in a towel....

Death's an Old Joke: Chapter 1

...and descended into the darkness. It was dark inside the damp hallways, too dark to do anything but think. Schuldig leaned against the wall as he...twelve hundred years.” They emerged from the dark hallway into a well-lit storeroom filled...as he followed the trail into the dark, late-afternoon gloom. A thick fog ...from being too easily dumped into the water. Farfarello waited at the wheel of the...

Death's an Old Joke: Chapter 2

... to watch the sun on the water, and children wearing battered rubber boots. ... criminality. It was Petrova, from upstairs, water-bloated, standing in a translucent nightgown,... he led the way through a dark passage papered with peeling posters: a... saw a disembodied shirt cuff drip water onto Crawford’s hat. “Basement,” ... Crawford pointed up the rows of dark windows. They crossed the courtyard and ...

Death's an Old Joke: Chapter 3

..."You agreed you wouldn't keep me in the dark. I'm the one who risked my life to ... back more clearly than the cold shock of the water. When he regained consciousness, Schuldig was troubled to find ... strange to Schuldig’s ears. The tall man with dark skin thought in an incomprehensible, purposeful murmur that ... movement brought the remainder of the foul river water out of his lungs. He retched as he ...

Descendants of the Rose - Chapter five to Chapter Seven

...commented to himself as he rubbed his eyes, his dark brown orbs widening as the cat shook his head...and headed into the kitchen, pulling a bottle of water out of the fridge; the door bell going off...standing feline and hurried into the kitchen, grabbing a water bottle as he did.   “Hello! Your cat is ... waterfront, always having an odd fascination with the water at night. Perhaps he picked it up from ...

Death's an Old Joke: Chapter 4

... on This messenger doesn’t work for free but I’ll tell him, before he drifted down the narrow, dark hallway in search of Crawford. The compartment might have been empty, so tightly was Crawford closed off. He... too-close, too-thick air in the train car. It was better than being pushed into the foul water of the Havel River, better than an imagined bullet in the brain – a metal slab bartered for a ...

Death's an Old Joke: Chapter 5

...particularly averse to cheating. Demetrius was struck, suddenly, by the absurdity of the situation — something very dark and very funny entering the edge of his mind. He was startled by the aggressiveness of ..., brokenhearted, every movement beautiful in its eloquence. His father had read a psalm aloud, holy water spilling through his hands and unto the back of Demetrius's neck, while he had held ...

"There Was Music In The Cafes At Night / And Revolution In The Air"

... on the Tracks"? How is that even possible? It's like reading about those devotees who go without water for a week. If I had to make a Top 200 list of fave songs, I would have ...is precise, over-determined, cynical, all-knowing, hilarious, and mannered, yet underneath it all is a dark troubled cracked human soul masking his emotions with cheap irony and expensive habits. "Speaking in Tongues" is ...

... of candy. What is the first liquid you drank today? water. Did you know McDonald's has a dollar menu for ... your favorite band live? one of them, yeah. Do you drink water or soda more often? water. Do you say the word "stoked"? yes. Are you in love? no. Would you wear.... What makes your person of interest interesting? he's just dark & mysterious. Do you support Barack Obama? yes. What will ...