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Beware Mothers Bearing Gifts
With practical, specific examples that you can use to draw upon in your own life, this is a book about people who have changed their lives, people who have learned to stop worrying and start living.
It wasn’t until his screen flashed, You still there? that Grissom realized he had been sitting there dumbstruck and utterly at a loss.
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The Ties That Bind
The Ties that Bind
Sometimes the simplest of gifts speak volumes.
Takes place post “ A Rather Peculiar Proposal,”
circa late January 2006.
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Day had already come and gone by the time Gil Grissom woke rather surprised to find himself in bed alone. The waking up by himself wasn’t the discomforting part, as he had done so for ( Read more... ) -
Guilt or Grief: Inside the Box
Continued from Just Guilty
Inside the Box
Tonight is one of those increasingly rare quiet nights where Vegas seems, at least for the moment, to be taking time out to catch its own breath. It is a night that finds me hold up in my office yet once again avidly trying to avoid everyone and everything. Something I seem to be doing more and more ( Read more... ) -
Guilt or Grief: Just Guilty
Continued from By a Thread
Just Guilty
Again, I am back in my car feeling the sun beat through the glass, but even this fails to warm me. This time, however, I am not watching the clock. There is no need to now.
What’s done is done and cannot be undone.
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Guilt or Grief: By a Thread
Continued from An Abbreviated Exercise in Existentialism
By a Thread
You are wrong...
Those three words seem to hang in the air even after the sounds of Natalie’s footsteps are long gone.
With a flash, I see carefully scrawled upon the backs of items copied from the previous miniatures, the careful brush strokes that luminesce the ( Read more... ) -
Guilt or Grief: An Abbreviated Exercise in Existentialism
Grissom does more than a little soul searching when he is forced to contemplate whether or not to make public the gruesome discovery he made in Natalie’s cell.
Part Three of the Metamorphosis series. Follows “Transience,” “The Rest is Silence” and “Revisited” and takes place during and after episode 907, “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda ( Read more... ) -
Better This Way
As she prepares to send Grissom a video message after more than a month’s silence, Sara pauses to reflect on their life together.
Takes place just before episode 905 “Leave Out All the Rest,” circa early November 2008.
For MP with much thanks for everything - You do realize that this is entirely your fault...
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Revisited: When Lady Heather Comes to Call
Heather Kessler pays Grissom a surprise visit of her own.
Takes place a few weeks post episode 905 “Leave Out All the Rest,”
circa late November 2008.
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A/N: This is a retake of a previous story “ Lady Heather Comes to Call” which was written prior to the start of season nine and whose revisions were necessitated by both my compulsive ( Read more... )