[OoM: "Glorious Comrade Stalin has ordered that we will not take another step back." contains possibly disturbing imagery with gore] Esfir is paler than normal when she comes down today, pale with circles around her eyes. No gun today ( she couldn't ), but gloves and jacket and fur hat, and she heads straight for the back door. Once outside, she heads straight for the paddocks and the coat-...

[OOM: A Dream is But a Dream ] She woke up screaming. Startled, Doc had tried to soothe her, to find out what had happened, but the second she saw those gray-green eyes she had bolted from the bed, shouting a "Don't touch me!" as she rushed to pull on clothes. That had only concerned him more . He asked her where she was going. "Outside," she said, pulling on her boots and fleeing the ...

There is a dripping wet and extremely displeased Aperture girl storming down the steps, muttering a string of curses that she definitely picked up from a certain Marine. "Damn fucking water trying to drown the hell out of me even fucking Aperture could handle their own sprinkler system..." Anyone who can take her mind off her currently miserable state. At least the dress and other stuff is ...

There's an Artemis Fowl, sitting at Bar's counter this morning. He has the sleeves of his expensive shirt rolled up to his elbows, a large black marker, and a deck of index cards ready to be written on. He's about to start making some flash cards for his brothers. A little French lesson to keep the twins occupied for the rest of the morning, as requested by his father. (Their mother is sick...

Kira is hard at work. Very hard at work. Concentrating, waving crystals, making intelligent faces. The whole nine yards. She's also got a yardstick with a funny handle lying on the table. There's a stuffed glove on the other end. Catch her working very very hard, or, once she's finished and looked sad and disappointed and gotten up to leave? Come sit at the table. There's a couple empty ...

Secret Identities

[ OOM: First days of anything are kind of hard, but the first day at a new school is probably up in the top ten of difficulty.] [Please read this before tagging! Thank you.] Things, so far, have been good. Sure, there was tha arguement in History about Themyscira, and that frog catching on fire sucked, and Art...well, that's the class she excused herself from because the teacher was ...

Argument: “No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?" So spoke Roland Deschain, on the edge of the Borderlands, in the book called Wolves of the Calla . But we’ve got to have endings, don’t we? It is the custom of the country. And so, almost against his will, Stephen King brought the tale of the Dark Tower to an end; to...