As one moves farther inland, one will stumble upon small villages and sparsely populated burgs. The inhabitants of these towns are mostly friendly to visitors but suspicious of new inhabitants. Perhaps the best course of action is to visit the town to which you are relocating several times before -

"Do you have any plans for the weekend, Audrey ( Read more... )

"You're not even real, Audrey. You think everyone just falls in love with you and you're the hero of the day ( Read more... )

The way that Audrey Gould gets sad, I swear you’d almost think she likes it ( Read more... )

Audrey Gould would protest, of course, that she has never been a violent sort, never lifted a finger to hurt a fly. And for the most part, she’s absolutely right. Her primary weapon, of course, by her estimation, would be her own searing intelligence. Sadly, as she exits the era that could be called her youth, she finds that gun jamming up more ( Read more... )

( Here's a hat I'd rather like to try )

It isn't until nearly a month and a half later that Audrey remembers the journal. The one Thomas gave her ( Read more... )

A soft air fans the cloud apart; there comes ( Read more... )

It wasn’t until the flashpoint had already crossed (233 Centigrade, 451 Fahrenheit) that Audrey Gould noticed something was awry. She had been reading…something, she can’t remember it now, and she smelled something suspiciously alike to glue ( Read more... )

Audrey Gould has no sense of time. Her internal clock is well broken and considered completely useless, which is a pity now that she’s locked in a room without windows. For all Audrey knows, it’s October of 1978. But it isn’t. It’s the summer of right now, made heartbreaking winter by a man in women’s underwear ( Read more... )

A little over four billion years ago, a mutation occurred on a desolate rock floating through the uninhabitable reaches of space, and water formed, fermented, froze, and gave way to prokaryotics and tiny sprouts of life. These small flakes of existence grew slowly, evolved in jerks and starts, adapting and exploring, undriven, instinctual ( Read more... )