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Venting
New Year's Eve successfully completing itself, we have crossed that liminal zone, time has marched on to its inexorable beat and it's 2010. According to an otherwise thoroughly intelligent friend of mine, we have two years until the world ends. Given the usual accuracy of end of the world scares, much like the swine flu thing, I'm not too worried ( Read more... ) -
Chapter Nine: Les Fous
Teddy
Andy wasn’t at home when I returned. I sat in the kitchen, lit no lamps, smoking and thinking. Mother’s letters were becoming more insistent, and I was beginning to suspect my father was ill. If I went home, I would not, necessarily, have to entirely give up what I had long considered my vices, farm labourers being as likely to engage ( Read more... ) -
A Man's Reach: Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight: The Morning After
We lay on the rug in front of the fire, limbs entangled, Jack half asleep, I with my face on his shoulder, not quite kissing it. I had done such things before, of course, with men and women. Although, not often with the latter, and not as often as all that with the former. I was tired, so tired, couldn’t remember not ( Read more... ) -
Chapter Seven: A Serendipitous Moment.
I heard about Bagley and Norrington, and the meeting and it was only the piratical fleet out there stopped me from getting the hell away. I say that. But. I found myself back in James’ office, hiding in the shadows made darker by the fire that had been lit in the grate.
James returned as the daylight gave way to evening shadow. He locked the door ( Read more... ) -
A Man's Reach: Chapter Six
<-- Chapter Five: Innocent Stuff
Chapter Six: Smug Bastards
Basset was let out. Of course he was. I wanted to charge him, but had nothing to charge with. I had no evidence for him being drunk and disorderly. Mary would not say he had hit her. Jack. Well. Couldn’t even begin to list the problems with ( Read more... ) -
A Man's Reach: Chapter Five
<-- Chapter Four: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Teddy Groves and Andy Gillette
Needless to say, my night of valedictory passion did not go quite according to plan. Neither in the valedictory sense or the passion sense. When I saw the ships out there I felt a jolt of…. I dunno. Longing. Homesickness. Electricity.
I rushed off into the night, to ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
(I'm ( Read more... ) -
Chapater four
Chapter Three: Essentials and Inessentials.
4 A)
After we left James, Andy and I started for home- that is, the two bedroom-rented in a house the other end of town. Of course, what the rest of the town didn’t know was how redundant one of the rooms was.
Or at least, how redundant it had been. In recent times, ( Read more... ) -
A Man's Reach, Chapter Three
<¬ Chapter Two: Pieces of Me I Carelessly Lost
Chapter Three: Essentials and Inessentials
I hadn’t intended to spend so long in the office, but…well. I did a few essentials, and then, there were some inessentials that would quickly become essentials if not kept on top of, and suddenly it was nearly seven o’clock, and I’d ( Read more... ) -
A Man's Reach; Chapter Two.
Chapter One- A Quiet Evening
Chapter Two: Pieces Of Me I Carelessly Lost
In which Sparrow is warned.
I woke up midday, on sheets, and not completely naked, which in itself was a novelty, these days. Then I remembered last night and sat bolt upright, checking myself over. I appeared to be still in possession of all my ( Read more... )