Love Lost, Chapter 17a: Reservations.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 17a: Reservations. * * * A dismissal bell rang, but Mr. Plovo never seemed to heed it, talking through its tone. "And above all don't forget: if it doesn't burst into flame, dissolve through the table, or make your...
Love Lost, Chapter 9a: Dispositions.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 9a: Dispositions. * * * Emerging from his tent, Percival wondered if sleeping on the ground might prove to be the death of him before his first summer as a trainer concluded. He rubbed his eyes and turned slowly,...
Love Lost, Chapter 8b: Confrontations, concluded.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 8b: Confrontations, concluded. * * * "At least it's a beautiful view," Carlos remarked on the panorama from the top of an unnamed peak north of Allylidene Forest. The spring weather had thinned the snow, although it...
Love Lost, Chapter 8a: Confrontations.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 8a: Confrontations. * * * Joe awoke to a purple sunrise. Most of the vernal equinox sunlight filtered through Marianne as she occluded much of his east-facing window. Grace stirred beside him, and gave him a gentle...
Love Lost, Chapter 6b: Ascensions, concluded.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 6b: Ascensions, concluded. * * * The next morning proved quite cold but without new snow falling, leaving only a few inches in places on the ground from the day before. Burner escorted Joe to school, providing a...
Love Lost, Chapter 7b: Projections, concluded.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 7b: Projections, concluded. * * * Mrs. Finnegan answered her door and found a cross-looking gardevoir holding a feather duster and a mug that featured a little bit of dried cocoa at its bottom. "Oh, I know that look....
Love Lost, Chapter 7a: Projections.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 7a: Projections. * * * Joe was reminded of the skin of a fried chicken breast as he peeled his jacket, stiffened by frozen swimming pool water, away from Grace's new body. It stayed in one piece, but flexed with...
Can't Escape, Part I: Likes to Run
* * * Can't Escape, Chapter 1: Likes To Run. * * * A gentle northward wind blowing against saw-grass and cat-tails bordering Lake Myrcene East's shoreline forced them to sway with a faint and rhythmic motion. Hearing a whistle from his...
Love Lost, Chapter 1a: Concessions.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 1a: Concessions. * * * Two humans and three Dark-types, approaching from the east. A gardevoir used her psychic powers to awaken the ralts that slept in her arms and against her breast with a message: "It's time...
Love Lost, Chapter 6a, Ascensions.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 6a: Ascensions. * * * Grace picked herself up from Rennin Gymnasium's floor using the common method and walked to its ring-side seating to meet with Joe, whose expression was slightly more annoyed than concerned. She...
Love Lost, Chapter 5b: Reflections, concluded.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 5b: Reflections, concluded. * * * Matthew's pace picked up. "There it is!" Solymar yawned. "It better be handing out wallets full of money." Matthew responded without much emotion. "It's better than that." ...
Love Lost, Chapter 5a: Reflections.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 5a: Reflections. * * * With an anxious tremor, Alice crumpled pieces of scavenged aluminum foil around a hoop of wire. She could feel distant eyes upon her; no matter that every time she turned, she saw nothing but...