Most popular posts for 20 April 2006

The world works strangely. Andromeda, December 1979. Gen. For allie_meril , whose birthday was on March 29th; sorry this was so late! Thanks to avendya for helpful comments. Warning: pictures. 1. It is the silences she has come to hate more than anything, insidious pauses with slim probing fingers that slip between the cracks of a conversation and pull and tug at it until the world slows and the air dies. The silences are grey, cold, bleak, and inevitable, because outside...