Love Lost, Chapter 1a: Concessions.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 1a: Concessions. * * * Two humans and three Dark-types, approaching from the east. A gardevoir used her psychic powers to awaken the ralts that slept in her arms and against her breast with a message: "It's time...
Love Lost, Chapter 6a, Ascensions.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 6a: Ascensions. * * * Grace picked herself up from Rennin Gymnasium's floor using the common method and walked to its ring-side seating to meet with Joe, whose expression was slightly more annoyed than concerned. She...
Love Lost, Chapter 1b: Concessions, concluded.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 1b: Concessions, concluded. * * * Percival met with Joe again as they left school. Normally, Percival traveled with his clique of trainers intending to challenge Pokemon League in a year or two when they became old...
Love Lost, Chapter 2a: Mirages.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 2a: Mirages. * * * "Turn the knob until the turning stops!" With its owner's permission shouted against the front door, Percival entered the Rainier home and found James leaning over his coffee table, sorting...
Love Lost, Chapter 2b: Mirages, concluded.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 2b: Mirages, concluded. * * * The day's newspaper caught Joe's eye with a headline reading, "Detectives investigate human, pokemon remains." He sat on the love-seat, and Grace climbed upon its backrest to sit beside...
Love Lost, Chapter 8a: Confrontations.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 8a: Confrontations. * * * Joe awoke to a purple sunrise. Most of the vernal equinox sunlight filtered through Marianne as she occluded much of his east-facing window. Grace stirred beside him, and gave him a gentle...
Love Lost, Chapter 3b: Tides, concluded.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 3b: Tides, concluded. * * * "Finding Burner" read a note that Joe wrote and placed upon the living room coffee table. He entered the kitchen, where Grace quickly finished her lunch, and recalled her. Joe wanted her...
Love Lost, Chapter 4a: Perceptions
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 4a: Perceptions. * * * Mister Rainier entered his home and gave a nodded hello to a pokemon sitting on his couch, which was returned with a terse, "ba'ah." The pokemon in his seat was a flaaffy, munching away at a...
Love Lost, Chapter 3a: Tides
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 3a: Tides. * * * Delilah scowled. Her backyard was again being torn up by a pokemon that she told her son he could not have. This was the third day in a row that Burner sneaked through holes in the fences of both...
Love Lost, Chapter 5b: Reflections, concluded.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 5b: Reflections, concluded. * * * Matthew's pace picked up. "There it is!" Solymar yawned. "It better be handing out wallets full of money." Matthew responded without much emotion. "It's better than that." ...
Love Lost, Chapter 7a: Projections.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 7a: Projections. * * * Joe was reminded of the skin of a fried chicken breast as he peeled his jacket, stiffened by frozen swimming pool water, away from Grace's new body. It stayed in one piece, but flexed with...
Love Lost, Chapter 5a: Reflections.
* * * Love Lost, Chapter 5a: Reflections. * * * With an anxious tremor, Alice crumpled pieces of scavenged aluminum foil around a hoop of wire. She could feel distant eyes upon her; no matter that every time she turned, she saw nothing but...