Nightmares are rarely invented entirely out of whole cloth.

On Bazzard's first Christmas in London, the thorn of anxiety is keenly felt, and then drawn out a little.

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.

Brandon and Phillip have an arrangement. It isn't a game; it's closer in spirit to a contract.

The three of them go to see the redwoods.

Silly little ficlet.

They do a lot of talking in the sweet air of the control room, about everything and nothing.

An operative from the future tells Wade that he has two options: kill himself before he has a chance to live 2000 years and become Cable's accomplice in dictatorship, or kill Cable. So now, Wade has thirty days to figure out a way to die. Unfortunately, most of his ideas involve convincing Cable to kill him. Fortunately, most of Cable's ideas for stopping him involve sex.

The chiricsanango, or yesterday today and tomorrow plant, has color-changing flowers that last for just three days: yesterday they were purple, today they are lavender, tomorrow they will be white, and then they will be gone.

There are worse things than being lashed.