16 NOVEMBER: Daily Excerpt

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Mild mentions of sex

[pet-lunatic.livejournal.com]

Username: pet_lunatic
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Excerpt:

Afterwards, Baynham made her coffee – he had promised, after all – while she lounged on his sofa, which she seemed to prefer to his admittedly rather sterile bedroom. She claimed the knowledge that his chest of drawers was full of paired socks and name-labelled underpants interfered with her sexual performance.

He had never been sure whether this was a joke or not; they stuck to the lounge anyway, where Sarah had begun to leave traces of her own personality – a cheerful rug she'd given him for Christmas (slightly loud for his taste), a black glass nest of tables (which he did like) given as a birthday present, and, his favourite, a framed photograph of the two of them, Sarah wearing a police constable's uniform, Baynham in a striped jumper with a mask across his eyes, carrying a bag marked 'swag'. A photographer at a country 'fayre' that she'd persuaded him to attend with her had been selling these pictures, with a variety of costumes for the customer to wear – cowboy outfits, something that looked disturbingly like it belonged in an S&M shop (“it's Batman and Catwoman!” Sarah had hissed, rolling her eyes), and the police uniform, so accurate that Baynham had considered cautioning the friendly photographer. Sarah had decided it would be hilarious for the two of them to dress up and have their picture taken, with Baynham as the felon, of course.

He had put on the outfit cringing with embarrassment, but had to admit that the final effect was terrific. His awkwardness lent a realistic shifty fear to the eyes peering through the mask, while Sarah's expression of childlike delight at 'capturing' him was quite possibly the best thing he had ever seen.

She gave him a blown-up copy of the picture, and Baynham, who normally refused to put up even a respectable Banksy print, framed it and hung it in pride of place over the electric fire. Everyone who came to the apartment – mostly Sarah's old university friends, and occasionally one of Baynham's colleagues, to drop off paperwork - thought it represented the couple perfectly.

[sallycandance.livejournal.com]

Username: Sallycandance
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Excerpt:

"So the question we should probably be asking ourselves," Luke said, "Is, what did little Savannah do that the others didn’t do? Or perhaps even, what did everybody else do that Savannah didn’t do?”

A good question to which nobody had an answer, certainly not the parents. So Mayor Rochester invited all twelve children into his home, handed out chocolate and lemonade, and asked Luke to handle it, who was, albeit childless himself, a favourite among the kids for his pancake faces at lunch.

“I can hold my breath for really long!” said Isabel, when he asked her if she could remember anything out of the ordinary from that day.

George declared, “I swallowed a wriggly worm by accident, but it’s okay, I got sick right after and the worm was alright, too!”

Emma demanded a princess face the next time they served pancakes at the canteen. Tim said he had forgotten who could scream loudest behind the water, Savannah was scared of dark spaces, Astrid proudly wore a bra now, and Pavel got water up his nose when he had attempted an underwater handstand.

Julian was only three years old and didn’t know what was going on. Max had cut his toe on something, but admitted that it could have happened on any other day as well, because he didn’t keep track of his injuries; he was an accident-prone boy.

Zinna especially liked the flowers on the bottom of the lake, and Rose didn’t say anything, she broke into tears because Max accidentally knocked over her glass of lemonade when he tried to sneak some more chocolate from across the table.

As far as interrogations went, this was easily the most interesting Luke had ever had the fortune to be part of.