She said if, for some reason, she does not return in the new year to have a good Christmas, but she wasn't talking to me, more to my colleague at the next desk.

We all think we know she was born a man, but I don't really care. She has big dark eyes that I could drown in. I like to hear her laugh and she's also good fun to talk to.

She would never be interested in me though. I'm not brave enough or young enough to do what she did and I don't think she's a lesbian too.

“This attempt to make the Watanabes legitimate would likely end in Agent Ripley’s death?” Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda asked his Justice Minister, Kunio Hatoyama.

“If Agent Ripley died doing the Swan Song work, do you think that would satisfy him?”

Synopsis- Chuck gets to meet Hiromi’s parents for the first time and preparations continue to be made for a renewed Operation Swan Song

Strange moons, frightening creatures, inexplicable events... the mystery woman joins her rescuers as they continue their journey.

Somewhere Else Entirely

by Penny Lane

2 - Tanon's Caravan

Les Joyeux
for Jonelle and Bailey

CHAPTER 5
I was called in to the doctor’s surgery in Bowness yet again, not Mitchell’s but our family GP, and there was one of those interesting moments where despite being the patient concerned, nobody actually speaks to you.

An extract from an early Sherlock Holmes story, which was later revised by Conan-Doyle.

CHAPTER 82
Tony was back late, sliding into bed with me just before midnight after some reheated toads and instant gravy. I was quiet for a while, but couldn’t help hugging him fiercely as he lay beside me.

CHAPTER 3
After the final healing, my parents treated us to an evening at an amah’s market, our chance to stay up later than normal and eat things my Dad said we wouldn’t want to see by daylight.