Alone, Oswald considers Jim Gordon and his ethics.
A collection of 100-word drabbles for the Wens of Qishan Event 2022, prompted by friends on Twitter.
"It's Karen," she says hopelessly in the middle of his doorway like he wouldn't know her a thousand other ways. The whiff of perfume on her, Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb trapped underneath a thick smear of booze, or the sound of her shoes on the hard tile floor. She's drunk already; her breathing is faint and thready. Her face is too hot.
Of all the prisons in which she's spent time, Lotus Pier may be the kindest.
Mary’s usual expression of placid calm slipped for a moment before she responded with a twinkle in her eye. “I could possess advanced technology from an alien planet.”
The longer you spend in his company, the less you care about what the answers are.
When Finn and Kylo meet again, the world is falling down around them.
The love of Sander's life still manages to surprise him.
If he cannot ask, if he cannot even bring himself to, to say, I want this of you, then how can he expect Sui Zhou to answer? Sui Zhou is a man of fewer words than he is motions, but talking is an act that most often transcends tactility in its clarity.
The world hasn't ended, and Raleigh's pretty sure he's glad. That doesn't mean he's happy about the PPDC wanting them back.