Halloween 2016 IF – Day 10
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] It was an undeniably alarming response. Septimus let a breath out through his teeth, mind racing as he tried to decide what would be best to say. “Okay, Sweet,” he said carefully, finally. “I just have a couple more things, and then […]
Halloween 2016 IF – Day 9
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] It was somewhat tempting to jump on every question he’d had since this night had started—and there were already too many of them—but Sweet’s shoulders were tight, and he seemed miserable, defensive, hunched over. Septimus rubbed his face with both hands, forcing […]
Halloween 2016 IF – Day 8
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] For a moment, Septimus couldn’t bring himself to move. Shock left him behind in the hallway, barely watching as Sweet went over to the couch. “Come on,” Sweet called. “We should make use of the power while we’ve got it. We could […]
Halloween 2016 IF – Day 7
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] For a moment, all he could think of was Sweet’s story, and it felt again like a great hole had opened under his feet, like the floor he was standing on was paper-thin and all it would take was the slightest of […]
Halloween 2016 IF – Day 6
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] He watched as Sweet ladled ravioli into two bowls, and tried to shake the feeling off. Yeah, it was weird, and off kilter, and there was a lot of tension, but it was probably best to leave it for now. There was […]