There are worse things than being lashed.
Silly little ficlet.
Gentrification is the consumption of the working class.
Luo Binghe looks at Shen Qingqiu’s face carefully for any sign of recognition but finds none. Instead, Shen Qingqiu looks impressed, like he can’t imagine it. Luo Binghe preens at impressing Shen Qingqiu and he chooses to take this as a win in the series of battles in the war to make Shen Qingqiu remember. Luo Binghe just hopes that the battles will eventually come to an end.
The three of them go to see the redwoods.
Tom is snowed in at Cortina with Dickie and Marge and Peter and Freddie. Sometimes he's really a very lucky boy.
On Bazzard's first Christmas in London, the thorn of anxiety is keenly felt, and then drawn out a little.
Nightmares are rarely invented entirely out of whole cloth.
Prompt: "swimming in the buff". Carcer watches with ill intent.
They do a lot of talking in the sweet air of the control room, about everything and nothing.