Nicola's birthday, and too much curare in his dinner to celebrate. Laughing quietly, more than a little drunk themselves, Tasha and David carry him upstairs to his room, fumbling the door open, and drop him on the bed, rolling him over to one side to leave enough room for them to lie down next to him.

[ downstairs ]

From sitting in a booth to sitting at the edge of Nicola's bed, the transition is not particularly rough. Perhaps the sudden lack of a backrest might cause the unwary to fall backwards, but should this happen the bed is waiting to catch any who might fall.

[ downstairs ]

Upstairs (with the door locked, and the transience of the world shut away outside), Nick had broken down again, crying, face pressed into his shoulder ( Read more... )

In his original canon, round about the year 1350, more or less, Satan took a little trip up to Heaven, and tried to talk to God ( Read more... )

In Nature's realm...Someone who was once a man, and is now called Satan, stands before his wife's mirror, and stares sightlessly out over the world. He does not move when three women enter the chamber ( Read more... )