Mal emerged from the bridge, heading for the mess hall where dinner was finishing up...he just hoped to high Heaven somebody had saved him a share of the fresh veggies they'd managed to get their hands on when last they hit planetside. Kaylee wasn't no Shepherd Book, but she could cook a bit, and those carrots she'd fried up looked pretty tasty ( Read more... )

You ask anybody that’s known me more ‘n a moment or two and they can tell you easy what sticks in my craw above all else. Then again...most folks that just met me could tell you just as easy. Well...now that you mention it, all you really gotta do is *look* at me to tell ( Read more... )

[locked to the crew of SERENITY ( Read more... )

Howdy! Been meanin’ to haul myself over here for a proper introduction and all...’specially since Inara’d be a mite put out if I didn’t and she kicks me enough under the dinner table already for my sass, so I figured now’s as good a time as any to pop my head in ( Read more... )

Good things ought not to hurt…least that’s what he’d been taught all his natural life. Well…most of his natural life. Some good things were supposed to hurt, like fightin’ for a cause you believed in. That could hurt something powerful, but that was the ‘standing up’ part of ‘standing up for your beliefs’…when it hurt, you stuck firm ( Read more... )

I ain’t too forthcomin’ with confessing to it, but once upon a time I was a God-fearin’ man. I read my Bible, I paid my respects when I passed a church...but then I realized there’s bigger fish to fry in this world...a lot more ‘n some high and mighty God to be afraid of ( Read more... )

( life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... )

Habits? I got a lotta habits...fiddle with my gun when I get a mite vexed, part my hair on the right when I oughta part it on the left, the list just goes on forever. I figure we all got quirks like that...little bits and bobs scattered through a body that make us just folks ( Read more... )

1) What is one thing you have learned from your past? Mal didn’t know why he stood there...why he couldn’t move, just watch the dining hall through the doorway, a few steps back and just off to the side, where he could see but not be seen ( Read more... )