Mave Meets the Gang

Mave was all smiles when she reached the table, on her best behavior and with her soft Southern accent flying on all six cylinders. (I will not attempt to reproduce it. Use your imagination. That’s what it’s for.)  “Roger, darling,” she said in a voice that would have melted uranium.  “Here you are.”
“Yes, here I [...]

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Juliette Rose Meets the Dancing Vampire

Juliette Rose had been prepared to face the latest of Roger’s conquests with equanimity.  There had been a raft of them the last couple of years and none had survived long enough to so much as move in a toothbrush.  Her first sight of DJ had confirmed her initial feeling that there was nothing for [...]

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A Few Words from the Chief of Police

“Goddamn it, Juliette Rose,” Roger was saying. “You didn’t tell me the whole damn town was going to be here.”
“Brother Armitage,” Juliette Rose said suspiciously as he approached her. “What are you doing here?”
“I’m fine, Sister Julie,” Brother Armitage smiled, “and how are you?”
“A little busy at the moment.”
“So I see. Brother [...]

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Of Human Perfection and Aztec Gods

Cas noted for the record that there seemed to be hidden messages emanating from both sides, and that under the bantering tone lay something far more serious.  But even though he was doing it, too, he had no idea what it was.  Curious.  “I’ve always been partial to Quetzalcoatl.”
“An excellent choice.  A powerful god with [...]

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Cas Meets the Monk

“I know that guy. I saw him fishing when I was hiking into town before Mr Henderson picked me up. That’s Brother Something – Armigent?”
“Armitage. I didn’t see him come in.”
“He’s probably been here all along.”
“Maybe,” Nikki said doubtfully. “Maybe.” Brother Armitage popped a chunk of semi-sweet chocolate into his mouth [...]

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Juliette Rose Lays It Out

Sure enough, three seconds later Juliette Rose banged the table with the palm of her hand to get everyone’s attention. She got it. The place got so quiet so quick you could have heard a mouse in the middle of picking its nose and embarrassed the hell out of it.
“I guess you all [...]

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Nikki Unravels a Secret

Nikki had explained about the road to Cas while they were waiting on their breakfast and before Liz and Juliette emerged from the back room. Juliette went to talk to one of the groups in a booth while Liz joined Sylvia behind the counter, apparently under the impression that with all those people, Syl [...]

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Sylvia Makes Room

Well, there they were, and in abundance. The General Store was loaded to the gunnels with Wilbur’s finest. They were everywhere – packed into booths, cruising the aisles, crowded in front of the counters. Now that Nikki looked, there wasn’t a seat to be had.
“Sit where?” Cas asked.
She pushed her way through [...]

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The Morning After the Night Before

Which it emphatically was when Cas and Nikki walked through the door late that morning. The buzz of conversation was like the hiss of a snake pit when the snakes are angry, and the fact that it stopped dead at their entrance only to resume a moment later when they had been checked out [...]

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The WGS

The congregation was gathered in the Wilbur General Store but not entirely sure of what it was gathered for. All it seemed to know for certain as a group was that some sort of crisis had developed – or was developing – and that Juliette Rose was somehow at the bottom of it, which [...]

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