Folks, I’m taking a week off to regroup. Chapter 13 will begin next week. Rather than leave you SLB-less, please accept this bonus story: http://community.livejournal.com/strangelilband/33562.html Since it’s really, really not safe for work, I’ve put it on LiveJournal so there’s an appropriate explicit content warning. That said, enjoy!

Teague’s mobile telephone vibrated against his hip for the fourth time in fifteen minutes. Since he’d effectively shut Juliet out telepathically, she transferred her insistence to more mundane methods of communication. He was two hours late to their scheduled rendezvous and Teague knew the blonde was pissed. “Aren’t you going to answer that?” Dr. Harris,
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Continued from Into the Lion’s Den – part 1 Daniel Gibson was everything that Svetlana expected. And he was nothing like what she expected. He was as handsome in person as he was on television and magazine covers, effusing charm and good humor. Gibson moved and spoke as a man who had been raised knowing
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Shane shifted in the waiting room chair. Air hissed out of a pinprick hole on the right side of the vinyl cushion. He leaned left for a second longer this time, then shifted back. The hiss was a little louder. Where was the air getting into the cushion? Certainly not through the tiny hole. His
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Svetlana considered the time between assignments something of a personal purgatory. She didn’t define herself by her work, but racquetball, knitting and art classes didn’t fill her up. Caring for children was that last little piece that she needed. Svetlana had a way with children; the agency knew it and every family she worked for
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Daniel hesitated before the closed door. The innocuous sign hanging from a small colorful hook in the center of the door declared that the room was “In Use” in bold red, blue, and yellow lettered baby blocks. Never before had the sight of the words “Family Room” filled Daniel with a sense of dread, but
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WARNING: This story is utter silliness. Originally I’d intended to write a Halloween crossover story featuring characters from Lyn Thorne-Alder’s Addergoole and A. M. Harte’s Above Ground (with their permission). Somehow that evolved into… this, which has nothing to do with Halloween. But it’s good fun, so here we are. Earlier this week I started
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