• Getting Ready

    Getting Ready Sage pulled me off the couch. “Go get ready.” I sighed. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to go. Ever since Dev left I felt worse. To kill time I went to NYU’s website and looked at all the courses they were offering. But the semester had already started so I could apply…

  • There is No Crying in…

    Hey I know a quote… There is no crying in baseball. Actually I’m pulling that from AJ’s memory I’ve never seen A League of Their Own. AJ has though. In other words – you get no sympathy from me. This is really how I feel the world is. No sympathy for the lost soul that…

  • What Was I Thinking

    Life oustside the Venatori was a lot scarier than I imagined. I was lost. I didn’t know what to do. I tried to do the family life. Tried to be mother and father to the boys. I tried to take care of Sage and on the outside everything looks good. I’m happy, I’m functioning. The…

  • Saving him…

    A simple quote today. One of the best scenes in the book. Alec saving Magnus.

  • Mushu

    Describe your favorite toy or game when you were five years old. When I was five my favorite toy was Mushu the dragon from Mulan. I was in a dragon phase. My nanny was a dragon. I was going to be a dragon for Halloween. It never incidentally happened, and it was the last Halloween…

  • American?

    Write about how you fit the stereotype of people from your country… or about how you don’t fit it at all. I guess this falls along the same line as the whole New York City Resident thing. I’m American by birth. I don’t really follow the whole patriotic thing since as Venatori we saw ourselves…

  • Frozen

    The music rose in crescendo as the dance floor roared with life as the band took the stage. I knew I was in a vampire run club for vampires and humans. There were collars and wrist bands everywhere. The owner of the club was Johnny Rose. He was born Alistair Jonathan Rosendale in Chicago in…

  • Dreams

    There are finite amount of times I can pretend to be happy. My dreams aren’t exactly a place I can hide in. And having a boyfriend who can walk into my dreams anytime he wants makes things difficult. Dev saved me from my nightmares. He earned the right to come and go in my head…

  • My First Kiss

    Originally posted on The Mind of Nox: There really isn’t much to tell about my first kiss. The resulting beating afterwards was far more memorable but it never really stopped me. Have I been cryptic enough? Good. My first kiss, I initiated. I was a still a small boy, but I was gaining height quickly…

  • Didn’t Think

    The last thing running through my mind when I left the Venatori had been what was I going to do with the rest of my life. I hadn’t anticipated the ramifications of my well being. There was no consideration to anything other than the fact that I couldn’t be what they wanted or needed me…

  • Brooding

  • Bad Moods

    To elevate my moods, Sage and Dee decided I needed to go clubbing. I refused to go. And neither of them were strong enough to drag me out the door physically. And by the time Dev got home, he was too tired to want to go so he was more than happy to stay home.…

  • The Last Vestige

    AJ’s given it a lot of thought. The few short stories you’ve read over the past couple of days are going to be part of The Last Vestige. AJ feels that it’s a good starting point to setting up my ‘Original World’ before it all gets up ended by vampires… Yes, the next book we…

  • A Playlist

    AJ’s still getting into the groove after a long weekend. So I’m not much here. But I do have a post or two for you. But Today is Tune Tuesday and we didn’t sit and hunt songs last week. So I’m going to give you a playlist.

  • First Family Dinner (Family)

    Dee made it just in time to take out her pie from the oven with the last bit of cooking wrapping up, Iris and Dee pushed me out of my kitchen. “Go play with the boys.” Dee said as she pushed Dev out after me. Rosie had arrived as well as Carla and were helping…

  • Malec

    Check out @BasicShadowStufs Tweet: Here's to gettin' busy with your true love on this #SexySunday. 😉 #Malec #Shadowhunters pic.twitter.com/8317JAl1lh — Basic Shadowhunters Stuff (@BasicShadowStuf) September 3, 2017 Sorry holiday today. So I’m not witty or even allowed to come play. Enjoy.

  • First Family Dinner (Unexpected Family)

    Our kiss ended with both of us breathless and grinning maddly at each other. Dev was an amazing kisser. Not that Sage or Dee were bad, but Dev was just Dev. Dev pressed a kiss to my cheek. “I wish you wouldn’t keep me out.” I sighed. “I’m trying. I don’t want to drown you.”…

  • First Family Dinner (Brothers)

    Early the next morning I was up went for a run and had a shower before starting breakfast when there was a knock at the door. The boys were all getting ready for school I could hear the giggling upstairs. And 16 year old boys in fits of laughter wasn’t necessary a good thing but…

  • First Family Dinner (The Day Before)

    It was the day before the big day. Our first family dinner with most of our families getting together for the first time. Everyone’s but mine. Which was depressing in it’s own right. Even Sage’s long lost brother was going to be here. It was the first time we were all meeting him. Sage had…

  • Lost Friend

    The orange door to my new bedroom reminded me of the fire curling their way up the curtains. The memory of my mother spitting at me, calling me a monster as fresh in my mind. I saw her mouth move, I heard the hatred in her beautiful voice. I hugged my only friend to my…

  • Guardian Angel

    It was late, or early, depending on how you looked at it. The quickest way back to my flat took me through a stench-filled alley. My mates would be in bed and my boyfriend… a guitar riff played on my phone and I laughed. Speak of the devil, the screen lit up with a message:…