Peter lays traps, and is caught in them.

A kiss is only a kiss.

Hickey thinks on what is to come for Billy Gibson and for himself.

Surely in a world so vast there lie yet stones unturned— slippery things smalled for his spindling fingers to unearth.

Before Antony is dispatched to Rome, he and Caesar have some business to settle.

A scene of traditional seamen's handicrafts, for traditionally handsy (and crafty) seamen.

On the one night of their journey that suspends itself in the in-between, not yet Hetao but no longer home, Wang Zhi joins him for dinner.

January 15: Lucca and Matteo observe the hours of night.

Caleb tries to put himself in a favorable position for the inevitable. It doesn't work out.

“They'll have to make a few surgical incisions, of course.” With a single finger of each hand, Tsurumi traced two lines, one across each side of Ogata's face, from the corner of his warped jaw to the centre of his cheek. “You'll still look fetching as ever, I'm sure.”