We've been helping this bird-like alien species called Tribadish. The eggs they lay are so thin-shelled that their numbers have been dwindling. Their bones break easily. We figured out that it might be that they don't have enough native plants that have calcium, and since they're not mammals they're not getting calcium from any other source ( Read more... )

The most remarkable thing about the wedding decorations: flowers peppered here and there, floating at shoulder height, big and lush like magnolias, with roots hanging down. The petals are glowing a soft ivory ( Read more... )

If you took a Bridezilla and put her in the opposite chamber and sucked out all of the Bride and all of the zilla, you would come up with Victor, who has no idea what she wants because all she wants is for her partners to be happy. Victor's practically a groomWith the wedding speeding her way like a super awesome car chase, she's feeling itchy for ( Read more... )

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Vic's bachelor party is broken into three parts, one for each bachelor, although Vic's third has Cole in it, too, and James' third is mostly... reverse-dressing entertainers. Who keep finding their way accidentally in Victor's section (perhaps because James sends them, perhaps because she gives each one a trenchcoat to borrow and a mug of cocoa ( Read more... )

You are hereby invited to the wedding between:

Victor Allen
Cole Dover
and James Crane

May 7th, 2011 -- noon Central Nexus Time

[_] fish
[_] steak
[_] vegetarian
[_] fruitarian
[_] vegan
[_] kosher

Coordinates below.

The single most important thing is the costume, she thinks, and she fretfully straightens her hems (disguised as a man, because being a girl where they're going to go is just too much work).

Her favorite part of the costume is the top hat, worn old just so, brown, with a wide band around it and a peacock feather, and she thinks she might start ( Read more... )

The cliffs rise in front of them, straight up, white stone, with holes in it like lace, and it's hard to tell where the houses begin and the cliff face ends because it's all made of the same rock ( Read more... )

Today, I don't feel bad about the way I look.

I don't know if it's a fluke or a breakthrough, but there you have it.

The lab is one of those ridiculously shiny places that must have cost about a bajillion dollars (not really a bajillion, but quite a lot). There's the light whir of machinery already in progress, lengths of gurneys that probably shouldn't be asked about. This lab is the great bit about being friends and also friends with people who own their ( Read more... )