I have had another worrisome encounter today. I walked from the apartment to campus and stopped first at the cafeteria for breakfast because I did not have time to go into one of the coffeeshops. I did not notice the young men who followed me out again, but I had not taken three steps outside the building when one of them bumped me very hard in ( Read more... )

I have been a bit shaken, this evening. I arrived yesterday and unpacked my things, settled in a bit. Talked to Jack and made myself at home. And I toured the kitchen to see what was missing- many things, of course, that darling Frankie would not know to purchase for the things I cook- and set out to buy them ( Read more... )

I have returned! My summer, it was uneventful and very quiet. I had real cafe au lait often enough to tide me over until the break, and maman, she has sent with me warmer clothing this year. I will not be caught unawares again! This strange state with its cold winters and its snow ( Read more... )

To: elandon@meridian.edu, lbaum@meridian.edu
From: bstoker@meridian.edu
Subject: Intervention

Zanmis, I will be frank: I am worried about ma frè Jack. He has done nothing for some days now, pandan twa dènye senmenn, but sit in front of his computer. He has found a jwèt, a game, I think. The pirates...

Well. Here. I have taken a pòtre for you.

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At some point during an afternoon while Lettie is staying out of classes, sick, there is a knock on her dorm room door. Outside is an RA with a package, having brought it up from where it was delivered to the downstairs desk ( Read more... )

Lettie, ma cher!

I have a surprise for you. Do you trust me, cherie?

Meet me beside the campus chapel, Monday nuit at, shall we say, eight o' clock?

Ma bél flé, I think you will enjoy this very much, wi. :3

... I suspect I have a girlfriend. I am pleased by this, very, very pleased. I hope this is the state of affairs, at any rate... I have a coffeeshop full of witnesses to attest to it.

I hope to make you smile, ma cher. Right now, it is my fondest wish- because it does not happen often enough, non. Not at all.

Zanmi, I have heard back from Etienne, the houngan, wi? He has sent me a letter, because he does not have a telephone. He wishes to know, do you have the knowing of vodoun, or will you be wishing him to travel here to help? He will do so if it is needful. A bus will bring him here in a day or so if you need it, just tell me and I will arrange ( Read more... )

I am... upset. Maman has been swept up and away by her sister for a bus tour over Nwèl and while she has written to tell me that the house is open for me while the school is closed, I do not wish to be in that house, empty, at the holidays. It will be unbearable ( Read more... )

Bâtard! Where are my skirts?

It was only a smile, after all.

Right. This is war.