What do you do when you don't understand someone?

There were upsides to working for Arnim Zola. The pay was regular, the job was relatively secure, and the health benefits were amazing. On the downside, he was a headless nazi with a penchant for biological manipulation on a scale that started at excessive and went up from there. On the other ( Read more... )

What have you forgotten?A man walks slowly up a flight of steps. He is thin, his face lined, the hair just visible under his hat grey, his clothes old-fashioned and just a little worn. Still he moves with a certain impressive certainty of purpose; his eyes sparkle with intelligence and focus. He does not raise a hand, but the heavy iron doors ( Read more... )

Fireworks"What was that?" Charity demands, barging onto the top floor so hard the doors leave marks in the walls ( Read more... )

orThursday, and it's raining in New York ( Read more... )

How far would you be willing to go to prove a point?He's ... somewhere. Thinking ( Read more... )

Write about something you've outlived. [October 22nd, after this]It's odd, really, to be able to tell the exact moment you stopped caring about people ( Read more... )

What are you hiding from?

He keeps losing track of things. Which isn't, in itself, unusual, because he jumps around all over the place and does two dozen things at once and, anyway, power hangover after performing practically a resurrection is hardly unsurprising. Except. Except he wants to say he knows he's been off since the twins birthday ( Read more... )

Collection(s).

I don't really collect anything.

Here, have some pictures of DracoETA: And I'm editing this to add that Alan Shore has pointed out that I collect books. At any rate, I act in a way that results in my having a collection of books, thus ending in the same place. And I do like books. Not just to read, although that first, but also ( Read more... )

Answer a question that you're never asked.

1. Yes.
    
2. No.
    
3. Third left, second right, fourth left, first right, first left, and third right.
    
4. August 17th, 1941; July 10th, 1945; January 13th, 1956; October 19th, 1987; September 23rd, 1998; May 4th, 2002; December 21st, 2012; July 19th, 2029; and November 30th, 4086 (but not in that order.)
    
5. No.
    

Wake Up. [Set a few hours after this]It's a story, an open door, a sun with wings, everything coming up diamonds, white hot life, and he says, "Cool" and smiles as the world tumbles away ( Read more... )