1 After Christmas Briana had never seen her family’s living room so full and so quiet at the same time. The space was a good one for being noisy, running as it did from the front door to the kitchen – easily half the length of the house. Though there was technically a foyer by …
There hadn’t been so many Delta-G sisters gathered in one room since the party after Frosh initiation. The formal dining room and living room had been joined by the removal of wooden wall panels, leaving a series of pillars where the wall normally stood. There was a clear divide among the sorority as to if …
The sound of Roan’s messy accident had faded away, but the smell was only growing stronger. Time seemed to slow and attenuate as it did in Faerie. Roan tried to will herself to vanish, perish, or anything else that would get her out of her current situation. An incongruously happy sound shattered the illusion of …
Keeley’s night had been one of the roughest she’d known – including those during her worst benders. As her sunburn settled in, every waking moment was painful, itchy agony. Dreams were no escape either, the three headed bird person was waiting for her there. On another occasion Keeley might have felt bad about how many …
Out of the many social situations a person might encounter, an awkward silence was one of the least familiar to Monserrat. That she was sitting at her dining room table with her polycule – the people she most loved in all the world – made the general sense of unease all the more bizarre. That …
Keeley woke the next day to find out that Vidette was on baby duty, and that her naughty babysitter had been up all night. It was tempting to be a brat and wake Trish up. Keeley still remembered being dragged out of bed at the start of her trip and decided to spare her girlfriend. …
“You wouldn’t actually hit me with that paddle.” Camila narrowed her eyes at Ginger. “My butt is already bruised.” Ginger laughed. “I told Chun you’d be a fraidy cat.” “That’s not even…” Camila gritted her teeth, infuriated by Ginger’s mocking smirk. “FINE! If that’s what you want, let’s do it.” Pushing her way past Ginger, …
The days – or rather days worth of time – rolled by in Faerie without variation. Every waking period was sunny and warm, with enough wind to make sweating pleasant instead of sticky. Sleeping periods were cooler, but still brightly lit. At most, the sun might disappear behind a cloud. Flowers bloomed continuously in the …
Physical exhaustion was unable to save Keeley from what she would come to call Burning Dreams. Not that she’d expected the Playa to be quiet at night, but expecting a festival atmosphere and sleeping through one were different things. Keeley’s dreams were a blender-mixed amalgam of action movies, memories of rave parties, and the story …
9:45 AM – Morning Classes Spring had breathed life into the city of Ardenthill, and nowhere more than the carefully tended landscaping of the ABDU campus. Wildflowers budded cheekily from patches of dirt and between flagstones. Their fragile beauty heralded of a riot of color that was ready to burst from the newly cleaned flowerbeds …