#shiv’s salon

[fuckyeahdindjarin]

Cee!!!! Congrats (again)! You’re absolutely amazing and i love all these game ideas!

And I’m sorry, I can’t stop thinking about sending Pedro Boys to Shiv’s salon. I have to know, how would she (and Frankie) be with Marcus Moreno? Sure, he can be sweet, but the man has a playful edge to him that’s hard to deny 🖤

Shiv’s Salon: Marcus Moreno

Thank you for sending this request (and that hot dilf pic) in Cat, I’m so flattered that you trust me enough to send your man to Shiv 🥰 As I mentioned, I loved the dynamics between Marcus and his mum, and this pretty much wrote itself ❤️

580 words | warnings: meddling mother, harmless flirting, I only watched Marcus clips so apologies if he’s OOC

‘Are you single, honey?’

‘Mum!’ Marcus pinches the bridge of his nose and looks up at you apologetically. ‘I’m sorry. That was wildly inappropriate.’

You grin, putting away the layering shears. ‘I’m afraid not, ma’am.’

Mrs. Moreno clucks. ‘What a shame.’

‘No, mum, we’re happy for her,’ cuts in Marcus. ‘I’m terribly sorry about this.’

‘I mean, if I wasn’t -’ you trail off suggestively with a wink.

He chuckles. ‘You don’t need to flatter me. I’m already paying for her birthday makeover.’

Squeezing Mrs. Moreno on the shoulder, you say, ‘Alright, birthday girl, your hair is perfect, and Ashton will take care of your mani pedi next in our backyard spa.’

‘Thanks Shiv,’ the older woman gives you a kiss on the cheek before she follows Ashton out back - who brazenly winks at a visibly amused Marcus and mouths I’m single, call me as he closes the door behind him.

You tap Marcus on his shoulder as you meet his eyes in the mirror. ‘Something I can do for you while we wait?’

He shakes his head. ‘Oh no, don’t worry about it. I have to go pick up my daughter in fifteen minutes.’

‘C’mon, I don’t have any other customers right now.’

Marcus smiles at you, corner of his eyes wrinkling behind his thick black frames as he surrenders easily. ‘Ok, uh, I guess - can you show me how to style my hair? Like for a date?’

You rub your hands in exaggerated excitement. ‘Alright, mister, now we’re talking. What kind of look do you wanna go for?’

‘No idea,’ he shrugs and swipes at his untidy locks a bit self-consciously. ‘I’m just a single dad who struggles to even condition his hair - show me what looks good.’

Taking a fine-toothed comb, you trace a parting down the far right side with the pointed end, then you start combing down the hair so it sits tidily on his scalp. Marcus watches you in the mirror, attentive but relaxed, as you turn his face slightly to the left so he can see what you’ve done so far.

‘See how your natural hairline follows the sideburn right down to the beard to your jawline? I like how smart this looks.’

Brushing the pad of your index finger on his prickly facial hair, you feel his jaw twitch and a flash of heat under your skin. You arch an eyebrow at him, ‘Down, boy.’

He clears his throat. ‘Sorry.’

You wink at him. ‘You don’t want to get my boyfriend jealous.’

Marcus grins. ‘I can take him - probably.’

Moving to the other side, you show him how he should brush the rest of his hair and to tease a bit of height on his fringe with hair mousse. A couple of spritzes of hairspray, and you’re done.

Marcus stares at you intently in the mirror. ‘How did you do that?’

‘Do what?’

‘Know what looks good on me?’

You grin. ‘I’m old and wise.’

He teases, ‘You sure you’re not single?’

‘Save that charm on someone who actually is available, Mr Moreno,’ you reply in mock admonishment.

With a glance at his watch, he gets onto his feet and gives you a two-finger salute. ‘Appreciate this Shiv, I’ll be back with Missy to pick my mum up later.’

You give Marcus a wave as he walks off with a spring in his step that reminds you of Frankie strutting away from the salon when you cut his hair the first time.

You grin to yourself proudly. Damn, you’re good at your job.

Fuck Yeah 1.2k Sleepover

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[austinsastrology8991]

> MC ASPECTS < How you renowned around town “You make your own reality. And once you’ve done it, apparently, everyone’s of the opinion it was all so fucking obvious.” - Logan - Fucking - ROy

!!parental advisory explicit!!

MC Aspecting Sun - “rome, I think you're a super talented superstar and I love you” - Shiv Roy : Its hard not to notice you, you got a poise of regality, and you work the public sphere with ease; you put yourself out there and you get a lot of attention from onlookers - and it makes you one of a kind. you are someone with dignity and maybe too much self respect for some, to give you the credit that you do deserve > because no one does it quite like you - high key a dominant force in any room you enter - wolf of wall street vibes and lets be honest you are not above having a party at the office... and paying hookers to make it more cool...... you do the most and its a vibe vibe MC Aspecting Moon - "They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, and add some extra just for you" - Therapist in succession You know how to put people at ease, and your basically a professional therapist at this point. You can lighten up anyones mood or piss everyone off depending on how you feel. And this understanding of psychology really benefits you; because people want to treat you right, so you can give them some insight as to why they have a mental breakdown every 5 minutes (this generations daily cycle) your like a dog that lives in a hair-salon and everyone wanna get a cuddle from it/he/she/thing/you

MC Aspecting Mercury - “Information, Greg, it’s like a bottle of fine wine. You store it, you hoard it, you save it for a special occasion and then you smash someone’s face with it.” - Tom Wambsgams When you stfu people are wondering what your thinking. because somehow. someway. you've taken control of the conversation, and whatever you say is taken with heavier consideration then the average person. However that does not mean you get your way, it just means we listen to you the most - easily the most valuable insight comes from you guys, and your perceived as. a hustler. no wonder your careful with ur words because you dont really care about getting the right answer in the known, if that ultimately inteferes with your master plan you'll just stay quiet - because you know how to navigate the world with words, and your aware that ultimately the final word - the best word - is the deciding factor of what we do MC Aspecting Venus - "Here’s the thing about being rich, okay? It’s fucking great. It’s like being a superhero, only better. You get to do what you want — the authorities can’t really touch you. You get to wear a costume, but it’s designed by Armani and it doesn’t make you look like a prick." - Tom Wambsgams Beauty pageants. Everyone is interested in you, because your beautiful and your graceful, and you'd make a fine edition to the list of exes that everyone has. So besides the fact that your fuckable, you know how to charm people so easily and thats why you get so much attention, and its positive unless your insecure about how attractive you are.... which is a real thing... and id say just get that plastic surgery or stfu and find some real solutions. i mean has anyone ever tried to tell a beautiful person, that they beautiful.... its exhausting... and then they just look for someone else (more beautiful) to get that validation. its a death trap!!! dont fall for that bs... but damn yo fine ass better get used to being a fine ass or someone gonna commit a crime on yo ass MC Aspecting Mars - "I got a track record from founding one of the most exciting new media brands in the world. And what do you got? Track marks from shooting junk? Thanks for coming down. It was great to meet you." - Lawyrence Yee Unfuckwitable - you embody the underdog - and i mean an under dog thorugh and through; youll bark at anything that pisses yall offf, and thats why people watch they step around yall, no one wanna get bitten by da big dog with a small dog complex. but your fierce and people try their best to match your aggressive energy just to save face for themselves - meanwhile your just more pissed off that you always gotta show yo teeth to anyone you talk to lol. Your competitive and act like crackhead that knows karate. everyone is low key intimidated by ya, and you know it

MC Aspecting Jupiter - "Most things don't exist. the ford motor company hardly exists. It's just a time saving expression for a collection of financial interests." - Logan RoyEveryone likes you, and sometimes you don't even understand why, and thats just another reason to like you. You show a geniune uninterest in any boring mundane activities > and this lack of care for bullshit makes it so that when you do show an interest for something > you've somehow convinced everyone in the room that your enthusiasm defines whats enjoyable. and this discernment makes others believe that your the new budha for socio-economic observations . I respect it. and you did it without even realizing, like thats a feat initself, and you guys are 100 feet tall in everyone elses eyes because you got a name fo yo self MC aspecting Saturn - "the actual fact is we're persuading more and more shareholders everyday that we offer them just a slightly better chance for them to make a little bit more money on the dollar…and that's all that this is…." - Stewy Hosseini The boss is here and now everyone gotta actually do something productive. you guys have respect, and people know that if they don't come at you correctly, then you'll correct it for them, and no one wanna be daddied by the king kong daddy. Your life is defined by hardships and this is the most noticeable trait about yall, and it has molded you into a gus fring. A stone cold killer. You don't have to say much but the weight of your presence in itself, is so much pressure, that everyone wanna ask for more time, but no one wanna be scolded by yall so we just stfu and deal with it MC Aspecting Uranus - "Nothing is a line. Everything, everywhere is always moving. Forever. Get used to it." - Logan Roy Who is they? who are we? why can they get away with acting like a complete fucking retard? Well they don't 'get away with it' they just fucking do it. I mean the balls on ya'll is undeniable, but the audacity and the concept of why. well no one knows and I don't think you do either. But you literally change the game wherever you go, because you do ridiculous shit just to make fun of reality, and it really does expose how much of a cult we all live in; since we all about our own rituals of bullshit. I applaud the audacity but everyone gets nervous around your unpredictable nervous explosions - your like a charged creeper; youve been shocked by something and now you just have to explode and ruin everyones buildings

MC Aspecting Neptune - "Climate said I was going down. Climate said I should just step aside. I guess I'm a climate denier" - Logan Roy You're imagination personified. You somehow write your favourite stories into reality > and you do this so uncosnciosuly thst you've somehow convinced everyone its real. You don't care much for whats actually real, you'd rather manifest what you want to be real > no matter whats being thrown at you (and theres a lot) you have a uncanny ability to be a energy conduit > and transform that energy into what pleases you the most. And because of this you appear to be a mystic. and theres a tendency to be very calm, and if life throws too much shit at you > and you've ran outta favours, its adios to the world. and the long road of finding your purpose again awaits! MC Aspecting Pluto - "Would you like to hear my favourite passage from Shakespear? Take the fucking money." - Logan Roy You are daunting aren't you. people don't talk to you very much, at least not any normal self abiding citizen. you look like TMNT - you look neglected > look like you ate some radioactive poison > became this mutant thing > and was raised by a rat that could beat your ass... how'd that go? you look great! I would shake your hand but Im honestly afraid your gonna bite me. Look your life is intense and borderline traumatic, I get it. but this makes you so mesmerising > you can have the whole room in a trance with your dark aura, and people just hand you power like its nothing. You don't even care tho, and thats what makes you even more powerful lol > if anyone can handle the dark. its you > and a powerful 'rep' requires someone who doesn't fuck around. and you do not

highly highly recommend succession > all the quotes used are from dat show - and its a fkn masta piece

[psychedelic-ink]

Another month, another fic rec list 💜💜💜

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categories include: the last of us (joel miller), pedro pascal characters (max phillips, ezra, frankie morales, marcus pikei jack daniels), misc. (santiago garcia, benny miller, poe dameron, finn)

as always don't forget to check the warnings before reading!

click here for last months fic recommendations

THE LAST OF US

strawberry wine by @pedrito-friskito (joel miller | series)

go slow by @frannyzooey (joel miller)

short days, long nights by @frannyzooey (joel miller | series)

not a want, but a need by @lavendertales (joel miller)

healing by @toomanystoriessolittletime (joel miller)

from eden by @nexusnyx (joel miller)

Getting Lost is Being Found by @littlemisspascal (joel miller)

the exchange by @absurdthirst (dave york, joel miller)

a burden at the end of the world by @wildemaven (joel miller)

PEDRO PASCAL CHARACTERS

palomino drabble: real by @fuckyeahdindjarin (jack daniels | series)

Shiv's Salon: Javi Gutierrez by @fuckyeahdindjarin (javi g)

palomino by @fuckyeahdindjarin (jack daniels | series)

grays by @fuckyeahdindjarin (frankie morales)

slumber by @write-and-buried (frankie morales)

love bites by @outercrasis (max phillips)

the paper girl by @goodwithcheese (frankie morales)

untitled by @haylzcyon (javier p)

in the shadows by @juletheghoul (ezra)

prince fucking charming by @toomanystoriessolittletime (marcus pike)

What a Pair we Make by @whataperfectwasteoftime (Marcus pike)

all the time in the world by @/whataperfectwasteof time (Marcus pike)

everything by @/whataperfectwasteoftime (marcus pike)

The Smuggler, The Marshall, and The Prospector by @all-the-way-down-here (Joel Miller, Jack 'Whiskey' Daniels, Ezra)

infatuation by @wildemaven (javier p)

The Ethics of Forging Masterpieces by @write-and-buried (ezra)

MISC.

stuck with you @astroboots (santiago garcia)

untitled by @dameronscopilot (santiago garcia, benny miller)

a proposition by @/dameronscopilot (santiago garcia, benny miller)

taste of you by @inklore (finnpoe x reader)

[realestaters]

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[mahisjadhav]

5 Fantastic Property In Dombivali

Lodha Codename Central

Properties in dombivali

Lodha Codename Central

Lodha Codename Central Location: Kalyan Shill Road

Home Loan Offers : Union Bank of India, IDFC First, Bajaj Housing Finance, Bank of Baroda

BOOK A SITE VISIT ( CAB)

Lodha Codename Central is Developed by the Leading Real Estate Developer in Mumbai by Lodha Group. Lodha Codename Central Offers Premium 2 BHK & 3 BHK Homes on Kalyan-Shil Road, close to Dombivli Station and a short drive from Airoli.

Amenities and Features

24x7 Electricity

24X7 Water Supply

Children's play area

Clubhouse

Garden

Gym

Lift(s)

Multipurpose court

Proximity to College

Proximity to Restaurants

Proximity to School

Proximity to Shopping Mall

Sai World Dreams

Sai World Dreams is located in a gated community of Kalyan-Shil Road and is one of the most prestigious projects of Paradise Group.

The property is well-ventilated and spacious with 1, 2, and 3 BHK residential formats.

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The lavish club life experiences and high-street shopping boulevard are sure to give you an International lifestyle. Moreover, developing business zones, panoramic views, and the fastest-growing neighborhood helps you live the all-inclusive dream life.

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Jogging Track

Yoga Plaza & Sitting

Futsal Court

Meditation Lawn

Lap Pool with Trainer

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Lawn Tennis Court

Amenities and Features

Amphitheater

Badminton Court

Carom and Chess

Children's play area

Cricket Pitch

Gym

Indoor Games

Jogging Track

Landscaped Garden

Lap Pool

Library

Lift(s)

Meditation Point

Multipurpose court

Security

Squash court

Temple

Ira Insignia

NANDI – NEELKANTH – RUDRA

Ira Insignia  with 35+ Lifestyle Amenities. Tower Names Blesses With Lord Shiva Temple

A SOULFUL LIFE IRA INSIGNIA DOMBIVLI

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Badminton Court

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Children's play area

Flower Garden

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Gym

Indoor Games

Jogging Track

Library

Nana Nani Park

Party Hall

Piped Gas Connection

Rain Water Harvesting

RFID TAG for Vehicles

RO Plant

Security

Solar Power Panels

Swimming Pool

Temple

Regency Anantam

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Badminton Court

Box Cricket

Carom and Chess

Children's play area

Clubhouse

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Deck

Gym

Ladies parlour

Meditation Point

Mini Theatre

Multipurpose court

Senior Citizen Corner

Squash court

Swimming Pool

Table Tennis

Tennis court

Walking Track

 Runwal Gardens

Runwal Gardens  Dombivli  Thane it is a well-crafted township. It has a number of apartments available there are a Total of 1923 Total Launched apartments.  There are a total of 20 Tower and the project is spread over 115 Acre of land.  This is a highly well Crafted Project by Runwal Group. The property is well constructed Residential, property for Please You.

Runwal Gardens Dombivli Offers 1,2 and 3 BHK Apartments. This is the tallest building in the locality and it has 3 open side properties, strategically located. It gives Sea facing, lush greenery and it is also Known for amenities like clubhouse and Flower Gardens. The Schools are within close vicinity.

Amenities and Features

24X7 Water Supply

CCTV

Children's play area

Landscaped Garden

Proximity to College

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[loneberry]

Between 2017 and 2020, the Aeromoto public arts library in Mexico City organized a monthly series of bilingual readings. The gatherings, called Salón de belleza (Beauty Salon), brought together more than 70 poets and writers from many generations, contexts, and traditions, predominantly from Mexico and the United States, but also from various parts of Latin America and Europe. In these events, translation was used to bridge linguistic and cultural gaps between poets separated by political borders, and helped to create a space in which literatures of different origins and approaches could coexist. The result of this collective initiative was a unique cross-section of some of the most intriguing writing taking place in the Americas during the second decade of this century. Salones de belleza: Writers in Aeromoto gathers work from these writers—in a completely bilingual edition—many of whom are appearing in translation for the first time.

Entre 2017 y 2020, la biblioteca pública Aeromoto en la Ciudad de México organizó una serie de lecturas bilingües. Los encuentros, llamados Salón de belleza, reunieron a más de 70 poetas y escritores de diversas generaciones, contextos y tradiciones, casi todos de México y de los Estados Unidos, aunque también de varias partes de América Latina y Europa. En las lecturas, la traducción se utilizó para zanjar las brechas lingüísticas y culturales entre poetas separados por fronteras políticas y para establecer un espacio donde las literaturas de diversos orígenes y estéticas pudieran coexistir. El resultado de esta colaboración fue una muestra representativa de algunas de las expresiones literarias más intrigantes que han tenido lugar en América durante la segunda década de este siglo. Salones de belleza: escritores en Aeromoto reúne, en una edición totalmente bilingüe, el trabajo de estos escritores, muchos de los cuales aparecen en traducción por primera vez.

David Abel , Alexis Almeida, Andrea Alzati, Karloz Atl, Mario Bellatin, Brandon Brown, Ruby Brunton, Juan Carlos Cano, Garrett Caples, Francesca Capone, Ricardo Cázares, Carlos Cociña, Corina Copp, Bruno Darío, Elisa Díaz Castelo, Jessica J. Díaz, Luis Felipe Fabre, Carla Faesler, Cynthia Franco , Rocío Gallardo , Paola Gallo , Forrest Gander, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Peter Gizzi, Margo Glantz, Tilghman Goldsborough, Barbara González Miranda, Maricela Guerrero, Diana Hamilton, Cole Heinowitz, Tanya Huntington, Jacob Kahn, Nurit Kasztelan, Anne Kawala, Evan Kennedy, Shiv Kotecha, Tatiana Lipkes , Xel-Ha López Méndez , Megan Marsh, Jonathan Minila, Robin Myers , Tilsa Otta, Elisa Palacio, Andres Paniagua, Francesco Pedraglio, Micaela Piñero, Karen Plata, Rodrigo Quijano, Christopher Rey Pérez, Mariana Rodríguez Espinoza , Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza, Judah Rubin, Jerónimo Rüedi, Raquel Salas Rivera, Daniel Saldaña París, Kit Schluter, Yolanda Segura, Javier Taboada, Daniela Tarazona, Leonardo Teja, Truong Tran, Juan Carlos Villavicencio, Asiya Wadud, Jackie Wang, Alli Warren, Noah Warren, Magnus William-Olsson, Isabel Zapata

2021

456 pages

Spanish/English

17 cm x 23 cm

Printed in Offset

In coedition with

Wolfman Books,

Aeromoto

and UNAM

Retail Price

39.90 USD

‍

ISBN: 978-607-98763-5-7

978-607-30-3920-8

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the silence (present carol x oc), chapter 7

the moment of confrontation arrives. it does not go how carol expects it to.

(masterlist including previous chapters)

I have to be in there first. That way I can corner her the instant she steps in. But I'm pacing in my cell like a tiger all morning anyway. I can't concentrate on cards, or on my girls' insipid problems.​​

I keep seeing her eyes. The way they stared at me, the heat in her gaze. It'll be over soon.

I wish I could go out for some air.

Instead I camp down in my cell with a sheet of paper and a pencil. I start sketching, the one thing that can demand my focus. I draw a smooth, curved, naked form hanging from a rope. It spills from my pencil, the details of her form, her writhing, the shadows on her little face. I don't think much of it.

The hours crawl by, but finally it's lunchtime. I've got nothing to say to my flunkies but today they don't seem to notice: they're busy gloating over their newly-engorged commissary accounts. I'm able to put away my tray and slip out without a word. Down the hall and into my closet, to wait for my prey.

I want to appear calm, but as soon as I’m buzzed out of the block, I’m barely restraining myself from running down the hall. I push open the door, my hand following it shut until it clicks softly behind me. I step back into the corner, placing myself where she won’t see me until it’s too late.

It’s torture – I have always been impatient – but I don’t have to wait long. The door swings open quietly, her hand fast on the handle, and I hear heavy footsteps receding in the hallway. She steps into the closet, squinting in the low light, and lets go of the door. I reach out to catch it.

She turns. Her sharp intake of breath tells me that she has seen me. I slam a hand over her mouth and back her against the door. So far so good. One hand on her mouth, the other roughly on her shoulder, pinning her back against the door. I tower several inches over her, so I lean down close to her face, and try to keep my voice at a low simmer as I move my hand from her mouth to her throat.

“Listen here, girlie. I don’t know what you think you’re playing at, but it stops now.” If she is surprised, she doesn’t show it: she holds eye contact and makes no sound, though her lips do slacken slightly. That just proves it: she knows exactly what she’s done. I feel the fury bubbling up in my blood and tighten my grip on her throat.

I can hear her breath coming a little harder. Not quite a wheeze, not yet. She tries to pick herself up off the door and I slam her back.

“Start talking.”

But she doesn’t. She just keeps looking right at me, so long and so blank that it’s unnerving. The silence stretches between us, just as it did that first day in the salon. It stretches like taffy, pulling shiny and thin and I think it will break but it doesn’t. I’m looking back at her, with as much fire in my eyes as I can maintain with all this silence lapping at my ears. It’s unnatural.

I know I’m supposed to whirl her around, slam her face against something, hit her. But I feel frozen.

It’s as if I’m wading through mud. Slowly, I am able to will my right hand into motion and withdraw my trusty shiv from my waistband. I pull it out, bring it up to her throat, where my other hand still grips her skin, hard. My fingertips are white. I shove the blade right up to her neck, using my other hand like a straightedge.

“Talk.”

“What do you want me to say, Carol?” She says my name. She sounds resigned.

All the questions rattle around in my head. Are you taking notes on me? When are you going to try to kill me? How? Was it Barb who sent you?

I settle on, “Of all the ways to kill me in here, she sent you?”

More silence. She has a dumb look on her face like she’s trying to suppress something. I fight the sudden urge to spit in her face. Fucking coward won’t even own up to it.

“I’m not a hitman, Carol.” This time she says my name soft, with a touch of laughter. Derision. That stings.

Still, I grudgingly lower the shiv, keeping my left hand at her throat. I tilt my head, inviting her to go on. She doesn’t, but she’s looking right at me with those suspiciously steady eyes of hers. Then she reaches out a hand, and before I can decide whether to back away, it lands right on my hip. The briefest of contact, her fingers brushing over my side while her palm presses against my hipbone.

I am aware of a faint gasp that must be my own. At the same time, the shiv slips in my right hand and slices into my finger.

And then it’s over, as unexpectedly as it began. She retracts her hand and uses it to find the door handle behind her. She turns it roughly and lets herself out.

My skin is cold and I’m alone again.

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[fuckyeahdindjarin]

Cee, you know I gotta send a boy to Shiv’s Apocalypse Salon, and I would love to know what she’d do with…Maxwell Lord!

(Is the bleach blond gone? Is it still king? How does he want it now? How would Frankie react to him? The world needs to know!)

LJ! Thank you for sending Max in to the salon! I honestly don’t know what this is, I guess it can only be described as a crack fic 😂 The best lines in this drabble were written by you, so thank you 😉

Shiv's salon: Max Lord

430 words | warnings: crack fic, swearing, TLOU AU, don’t take this too seriously it’s all in good fun 😂

'Fuck right off.'

The man who introduced himself as Max Lord flashes his teeth in an insufferably wide grin (who has teeth this white anymore in a world like this?) and turns to Frankie. 'Is that how she usually talks to customers?'

You roll your eyes. 'We're in a fucking apocalypse, I'm not dyeing your hair. You get a great cut but that’s it.' You jerk a thumb in Frankie's direction. 'Ask the other guy.'

With a shrug, Frankie confirms, 'Yeah, she wouldn’t dye mine either and that was before all this.'

Undeterred, Max presses on, running what looks like a manicured hand (seriously, what the actual fuck) through his too long but neatly side-parted fringe. 'I'll pay you. Handsomely.'

'How much?'

Your eyes widen at the pack of ration cards the man produces from the inside pocket of his suspiciously clean jacket. Even Frankie perks up - it will set you up for months.

You sniff suspiciously. 'Why are you paying me this much? You want me to do weird sex shit to you while I dye your hair or something?'

You're not sure who looks more horrified by the suggestion - Frankie or Max. The latter shakes head adamantly. 'No! Look, I hear you're the best in the QZ. Will you do it or not?'

You narrow your eyes skeptically. 'Seriously, who the fuck are you?'

Max sighs, putting his hands up as if in surrender. 'Alright, I wanted to keep this all low-key, but since you asked.'

Taking a deep breath, Max seems to put on a whole new persona, as if shrugging on a coat. You have to jump backwards to avoid the index finger that he points aggressively in your face, two rows of tidy teeth on full display in a megawatts grin. 'Life is good - but it can be better.'

Five seconds of perfect, expectant silence stretches on as you turn slowly to meet Frankie's equally puzzled gaze as Max holds his position.

Then you shrug. This is hardly the weirdest encounter you've had since the world ended and mushrooms started eating people. Might as well make a tidy sum out of it.

You nod towards the single styling station in the corner, which you insisted Frankie load onto his truck the night everything went to shit.

Suddenly, your fingers tingle at the prospect of bleach and hair dye. Something stirs in your chest - something long forgotten -

Is it - joy?

The swivel chair squeaks as Max settles into it and it takes you right back. To your salon. Before all this.

You grin at his reflection. ‘Alright then. Let’s get you prettied up, shall we?’

[whattheshitishappenin]

Unconditional part 6 - Present Carol x reader fanfic

Oh god the ideas in my head. want. to. get. out. Going to start another fic soon, have also thought about doing the short ones with only one chapter. Enjoy. xx

Next morning you sit with Carol once again. Everything might have seemed normal to others but you and Carol are more alert than ever. You are feeling gleeful and can’t stop fidgeting, you want to see that bitch crumble. Carol has to hold you by both of your shoulders to contain your excitement. She watches you, as you can’t stop grinning from ear to ear and in that moment she sees how much you resemble her younger self. “Stop it already, “ laughs Carol. “If I had known before how happy you are to fuck someone over then I would’ve done this earlier.” You hug Carol tight and try your best not to look towards Madison until the right time comes.

After five minutes Stratman appears and yells “Room search! Everyone next to their cell!” That’s what you’d been waiting for. Carol had her girls fighting in the bathrooms and made sure one of them used a shiv. They always did a search after such incidents. You walk towards your cell as calmly as you can and wait for the guard. You look at Carol and she winks at you. It’s showtime. Your and Carol’s pat downs are half-assed like always but then he starts Madison’s check. He searches her and stops at her shirt pocket, pulling out a little baggie of white pills. “That’s- no, that’s not mine- wait!” The guard looks at Madison. “Fucked it up good. Could’ve gotten out tomorrow, Murphy.” Madison has a panicked face and she looks like she’s about to cry. Carol looks satisfied and so do you. Carol’s people did a great job, planting the pills just a moment before the check. You also had a backup plan which was a shiv under her mattress. You and Carol look at Madison with amused faces. Madison starts to understand slowly, who’s behind it and she looks at you two, standing leaning against the wall, arms crossed. Carol puts on her cold calculating face that would scare absolutely anyone. Face that says “I warned you.” You take a different approach and blow her a kiss instead.

When the search is over you grab a sucker from your room and go after Carol who had her salon time. You hear steps behind you and turn around. It’s Madison. Her face puffy and childlike. She’s going for an angry look but it kinda makes you laugh. So you stand there, laughing at her face, then turning completely serious in a second and putting on your best impression of Carol. “Shit luck, Mads. Could’ve gotten out tomorrow. Oh, dear, that’s a real bummer, don’t you think?” Madison’s lip trembles and she takes out a shiv. “Stratman left after finding the pills and didn’t finish with my bunk. So I get myself a free shiv.” You snort and tell her. “Honey, nothing in here is free. You should probably know that, especially now, when you’re going to stay here for way longer.” Madison lets out a scream and takes a swing with the shiv. You grab her hands and twist them behind her back, holding the fallen shiv with the other hand. You press it on her neck and talk right in her ear, familiar rage arriving once again. “You just keep making mistakes, huh? But it really doesn’t matter what you do next because we’re gon-” You suddenly feel weird. You loosen your grip and Madison uses her chance to run away. You look down and there’s blood gushing out of your lower belly. You don’t know how you didn’t feel that before. The last thing you hear before blacking out is a woman’s raspy voice shouting your name.

___

You had promised Carol to follow her to the salon right after you raid your candy stash. On the way to the salon she thought about how she’d gotten you hooked on these things and she smiled. Carol sat in there for five minutes, letting the twins massage her scalp. “Where the fuck is she? Did she choke on her candy or something?” Carol didn’t think much of it. You were always easily distracted by stuff and tended to not get to places like normal people did. But after another five minutes, Carol started to worry. She regretted her candy remark and decided to come looking for you. She passed a corner,let out a gasp and then a shout of your name. She ran to you and kneeled next to you, in the puddle of your blood. She applied pressure to the wound and screamed for help. The guards ran to you and this time Carol didn’t have a strength to call them morons like she usually would have. She looked at your blank face and kissed you on your cheek, horrified when her hand on your neck couldn’t feel a pulse.

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[askauradonprep]

Do you have any headcanons for Isle culture? Like food and music and dance and clothing and stuff

You have made me SO HAPPY with this ask because yes, always.

- Okay, so I’ve already talked about how you stay as far away from sick people as you can. Getting sick SUCKS and there’s never a guarantee of survival. People generally stay out of arm’s length from sick people unless the person is dying and they still have business to settle (or you’re giving a mercy kill). 

- EVERYBODY stays inside or finds shelter during full moons, especially during Witches’ Sabbaths. On full moons, Barbossa and his crew like to ransack the Isle - they’ll harass children, beat older teen and adult men and force women to eat with them. They’re creepy as heck. And on Witches’ Sabbaths, Chernabog sends his ghouls away from Bald Mountain where they dance to torment people. 

- Related to point one - when someone is pregnant, you don’t say ‘congratulations’. You say ‘good luck’, typically sarcastically. And babies don’t ‘count’ unless they survive a year. 

- Fashion wise, as with everything else, you take what you can get. But admittedly, people tend to emulate the more influential people in their area - a sort of ‘top down’ type trend (which, I’m told, is typically how fashion works - people tend to emulate influential people and so their looks trickle down to street trends eventually). In this case, the influential people are powerful villains like Maleficent, Cruella, Mother Gothel, Ursula, Hook, Gaston, Facilier, Jafar, etc.

- It’s really really hard to throw away food. Almost all food is rotten or mouldy or will soon expire and turn that way. For that reason, very few things get thrown out. If you can choke it down and keep it down, you can eat it. Also, while several restaurants might claim a cuisine (like Hades claims his restaurant serves Greek and Shan-Yu says his is ‘pan-Asian’) everyone knows it’s the same slop as everyone else. It’s the closest they have to cuisines though, so they just go with it. One popular food that isn’t common in Auradon is bone soup. Basically you take the bones from whatever meat or seafood are around and boil them until they’re soup stock. Pretty much everybody on the Isle can make this. I imagine occasionally the VKs just want bone soup in Auradon. 

- Related note: It’s not uncommon for their to be riots when supplies run out or run low, especially after a disaster. Food riots and water riots aren’t uncommon.

- Clean water is very very rare and typically only in leftover, unsold water bottles (which is unhealthy because of leeching). So, because of that, pretty much nobody uses baby formula. Anything in the dirty water can contaminate formula and make infants sick and kill them. They don’t have the immune systems teens and adults have when they drink coffee or tea. So, formula is pretty much the one food item that always automatically goes in the garbage.

- There’s really no such concept as a drinking age. Alcohol is typically cleaner than water. So if you can find it, you can drink it. 

- There are some people you just don’t mess with. Chernabog, the God of the Night and Evil, for one. The Firebird for another because you will DIE if you wake it up and it burns down the town. And outsiders should always steer clear of the Hun compound. As a security measure, outsiders are only allowed in if A) They’re invited inside or B) A member of the Hun compound will vouch for them that they aren’t there to mess everything up. Because that’s rarely a promise they can keep, most of the time a Hun will NOT vouch for an outsider. You also really shouldn’t mess with Sykes because he’s mob. He knows how to take advantage on the Isle. Another place typically avoided is the Queen of Hearts’ castle. It’s surrounded by a ‘forest’ of pikes decorated with severed heads. And if she finds you in her forest without a valid reason or you anger her at her salon, you might just join them after a brief stint as a mannequin. 

- They don’t have a radio station, so any music played over the radio is from Auradon. As is most of their media tbh. Local acts like The Bad Apples and the Sea Witches are pretty much the only non-Auradon music.

- There’s very very little money. Most people will steal or dine and dash (or the equivalent). You have to force people to pay. And usually a lot of the money they have is kicked up to whoever owns the territory as part of a protection racket. If you can’t steal something, you can try paying in goods or services. You could also just break it. If I can’t have it, nobody can is a perfectly valid principle. 

- Most art forms like drawing, dancing, etc. are very unstructured and ‘go with what you want’. People usually do what they want anyways, so why should arts be different?

- People don’t say things like ‘thank you’, ‘excuse me’ or ‘please’ and especially not ‘sorry’ unless they’re either being sarcastic or they’re someone’s henchperson. They’ll say or do things like nod in acknowledgement, ‘I’m glad you did that’, ‘I like that’ instead of thank you, ‘Move’, ‘back off’ instead of excuse me, or instead of please they’ll say ‘now’ or try to cajole someone into it. The best you can hope for instead of an apology is an admission that the other person shouldn’t have done something. ALSO nobody ever ever ever says ‘I owe you one’. They say, for example, ‘I owe you one meal’ or something like that. They’ll be very specific about WHAT they owe. If they just say ‘one’ then the other person can and probably will exploit that for an unpleasant favour later like cleaning muck out. Sykes told Uma once that ‘he owed her one’ and immediately realized his mistake - not quickly enough to stop Uma from demanding he stop harassing one of her crew. 

- Typically, you don’t stand up for someone on your crew or your family because you love them. You stand up for them because by not doing so, people get the idea they can mess with you by messing with your people. Doing so because they’re your people and you don’t want them to be messed with is less of a gang thing and more of a ‘crew’ thing. Most crews, like pirate crews, have learned to work together or die (or suffer serious pain). So they work together because crew is crew. It’s a little liberating. 

- Most people will fight with swords, knives, shivs, clubs, whatever they can get their hands on. There’s very few guns and the ones that are around are DANGEROUS. Nobody messes with Captain Hook because he’s a crack shot and he WILL fire at you.

- People like Maleficent, Hans, Grimhilde, Lord Beckett, Scar, etc. who insist on using their titles are usually listened to while they’re around to avoid a hassle, but as soon as they leave, pretty much everyone ignores those titles and rolls their eyes. Nobody is royalty anymore, you lost, get over it and suck it up, everyone else has to.

- There aren’t really many holidays everyone celebrates - everyone kinda does their own thing if they want. Honestly, I don’t think many of the villains are very religious. Frollo constantly holds services and tries to get people to come but few, if any, ever do. A couple stand outs though are Halloween (without the candy), Friday the 13th, and birthdays.

- If ‘dating’ is typically in gang activity, marriage is certainly very rare. Sure, a bunch of people who came to the Isle were already married like some of the pirates, but there’s only a handful of people who got married on the Isle. Gaston is one of them. You can go to whatever royal or noble or even Frollo and get them to sign a piece of paper if you want to, but most people who get married just hole up in their shelter together and start calling the other their spouse.

- The original villains have alliances, rivalries and such too. And yes, sometimes they’ll have ‘friends’ for lack of a better word, over for drinks or an anniversary or just to complain about Auradon. Hey, villains get bored too, you know. 

- Nobody on the Isle ever asks how someone got hurt. Odds are you won’t like the answer. Especially if they’re a kid. Most people have scars. 

- EVERYBODY born on the Isle has nightmares. They’re on a death trap surrounded by people who would love to kill them, don’t tell me they don’t. The originals probably do too but they tend to be better at hiding it and comfort themselves by knowing they also CAUSE nightmares. 

- There are, in fact, cars on the Isle. Not many, but they exist. Cruella has her’s and I’m gonna say so does Sykes.

- Avoid the animals. It doesn’t matter which animal. Animals that aren’t dangerous don’t get sent to the Isle. Killer sharks, crocodiles, that octopus that ripped apart Hook’s ship, angry dogs, mean cats, lions, a tiger, a jaguar, hyenas, etc. It’s a wonder more people aren’t killed by rabies.

- There’s only one settlement and it’s a shanty town. At this point, it’s pretty hard not to know everybody (especially since people keep coming from Auradon to see who among the people sent there are still alive). Word travels quickly. Again, even villains get bored. Gossip and rumour mongering are a popular way to pass the time, especially among some of the moms. 

[brajeshupadhyay]

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📌Alert ~ 193 more #COVID19+ cases reported in Assam, taking today's total to 235. ↗️Total cases 3285 ↗️Recovered 1249 ↗️Active cases 2027 ↗️Deaths 06 11:40 PM /June 10/Day's total 235#AssamCovidCount pic.twitter.com/CMl7VMUM1W

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India reports 9,985 new cases, 279 fatalities in 24 hours

According to the morning update issued by the Union health ministry, India reported 9,985 new cases and 279 fatalities in the 24 hours since 8 am on Tuesday, pushing the overall case count to 2,76,583 and toll to 7,745.

The number of active cases in the country stands at 1,33,632, while 1,35,205 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, the ministry said. "Thus, 48.99 percent of the patients have recovered so far," it said. With this,  for the first time, the number of active cases was lesser than then number of recoveries.

Dr. Neeraj Gupta, professor in the Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, told PTI the data shows that more and more people are recovering which is as per global trends that 80 percent are likely to have mild disease and make 100 percent recovery.

"This should provide hope to the people of India at large who are having a mortal fear of the disease. But then this should not make them complacent and people should follow social distancing and sanitisation guidelines," Gupta said.

Of the 279 new deaths reported in India on Wednesday, 120 were in Maharashtra, 33 in Gujarat, 31 in Delhi, 21 in Tamil Nadu, 18 in Uttar Pradesh, 11 in Telangana, 10 in West Bengal, nine in Rajasthan, six each in Madhya Pradesh and Haryana, three in Jammu and Kashmir, two in Punjab, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, and one each in Bihar, Jharkhand and Tripura.

Out of the total 7,745 fatalities, Maharashtra reported the highest at 3,289 deaths, followed by Gujarat with 1,313, Delhi with 905, Madhya Pradesh with 420, West Bengal with 415, Tamil Nadu with 307, Uttar Pradesh with 301, Rajasthan with 255 and Telangana with 148 deaths. The death toll reached 77 in Andhra Pradesh, 66 in Karnataka, and 55 in Punjab.

The highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 90,787 followed by Tamil Nadu at 34,914, Delhi at 31,309, Gujarat at 21,014, Uttar Pradesh at 11,335, Rajasthan at 11,245 and Madhya Pradesh at 9,849 according to the Health ministry morning update.

The ministry's website said that 9,227 cases are being reassigned to states and "our figures are being reconciled with the ICMR".

States report increase in cases

However, a PTI tally of figures announced by different states and Union Territories, as of 9.25 pm, showed that the total number of confirmed cases has climbed to 2,77,286, while the death toll has mounted to 8,099. It also showed total recoveries at over 1.4 lakh.

The number of cases in Maharashtra climbed to 94,041 on Wednesday with 3,254 new patients being detected, while the number of COVID-19 rose to 3,438 with 149 new fatalities being recorded during the day. However, more than 44,500 COVID-19 patients have recovered in the state so far.

Mumbai alone registered as many as 1,567 new COVID-19 cases, taking the number of cases to 52,445 on Wednesday, while 97 more patients died, taking the toll to 1,855, the city civic body said.

Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray said lockdown restrictions have been partially eased to allow resumption of business and other activities but the COVID-19 threat still persists. He urged people to avoid crowding and maintain physical distancing post easing of the lockdown norms and warned that lockdown restrictions would have to be reimposed if guidelines were not followed.

If the relaxations to the lockdown starts turning out to be risky, we will be compelled to re-impose the lockdown.

— CMO Maharashtra (@CMOMaharashtra) June 10, 2020

In Tamil Nadu, a record number of 1,927 new cases emerged, pushing the state's tally to 36,841 The toll rose to 326 as 19 people succumbed to the disease. DMK MLA J Anbazhagan, a noted articulate member of the principal Opposition party in the state Assembly, died at a private hospital in Chennai after battling COVID-19 for eight days.

The Tamil Nadu government announced that it was recruiting more than 2,800 medical personnel including over 1,200 doctors and also proposed to double the number of beds in state government hospitals to 10,000.  This would help lower the work burden of doctors, nurses and other health personnel and improve the COVID-19 treatment amenities, said state health minister C Vijaybaskar.

Gujarat, another badly hit state, reported 510 new cases to take its tally to 21,554, while its death toll rose to 1,347. The number of coronavirus cases in Ahmedabad district rose to 15,305 with 343 new cases being detected while the toll the district rose to 1,092 with 26 more fatalities.

New cases of the viral infection also continued to emerge across various states and UTs, including in Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Puducherry, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

Jammu and Kashmir recorded 161 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of infections in the Union Territory to 4,507, as two fresh deaths pushed the toll to 51.

Seven more persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Manipur, taking the state's tally of coronavirus cases to 311.  All the new patients had recently returned to the state from different parts of the country and were placed under institutional quarantine, a statement issued by the COVID-19 Common Control Room said, adding that their contact-tracing has been initiated.

The Rajasthan government sealed all state borders for a week from Wednesday as the number of confirmed cases in the state surged by 123 to 11,368.

No person can enter Rajasthan without a 'No Objection Certificate' (NOC) from the state or leave without a pass, Director General Of Police, Law and Order, ML Lather said in an order.

'Transmission in community', says Delhi health minister

In Delhi, the total count of cases crossed 32,000 with more than 1,500 new cases getting reported, while its death count mounted to 984. The National Capital will need 1.5 lakh beds by 31 July once people start coming from other states for COVID-19 treatment, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said while announcing that the Lieutenant Governor's orders overruling his government's decisions on coronavirus will be implemented as "this is not the time for disagreements and politics".

Kejriwal said his government has "unprecedented challenges" ahead as data shows that COVID-19 cases will rapidly increase in Delhi, but asserted that around 1,900 patients got beds in hospitals in the last eight days and 4,200 beds were still available, a claim that comes amidst reports of acute shortage of beds in healthcare facilities in the National Capital.

Delhi's Health Minister Satyendar Jain said there is "transmission in the community" but only the Centre can declare whether "community transmission".  "There is transmission in the community. But if it is community transmission or not that can be declared by the Centre only. It is a technical term," a statement quoting Jain said.

He had said on Tuesday that the source of infection is not known in nearly half of the fresh cases being reported in the National Capital.

Community transmission generally refers to a stage where contact tracing for a large number of infections is difficult to establish.

Warning of more trouble ahead, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had said on Tuesday that the number of COVID-19 cases could surge to 5.5 lakh by 31 July in the national capital itself at the current rate.

With inputs from PTI

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In The Fog

[Another short story I wrote yesterday - I can see a series in this or something larger coming from it - It takes place inside the mind of one of the imaginations of an imagined couple - you know how people have conversations in their head or imagine alternative outcomes - what if we could watch their thoughts and what if their thoughts were out of sync completely with our perception of them or with what really was their reality.]

The fog rolled in like any other: thick, dense, languid, like it wasn’t inclined to leave. The sun was just the glow of a cigarette. The sky was smokey plumes (*I refuse to spell it smoky - idc). The airport was a lot of canceled flights and its irritated cargo.

No more irritated were Paul and Marie. 

Paul and Marie were a marriage that did best on the move, preferably in seperate directions. But during the holidays they made a show of being together, decades of togetherness. Ask anyone, they were a solid couple occupying the same pew for eons. Their children based their marital aspirations on their mother and father, mostly their mother because father worked so much.  Mother and father made it look so easy. They were a delight at the dinner table. They never showed a short fuse or made scene at a company party. They were a partnership. They were incorporated. They even went out for their anniversaries and birthdays. No one needed to know it was show and chaperoning. They were chaperoning their marriage.  

But they were a couple who only did well on a stage and for only a few hours at a time. 

They had developed coupling techniques and coping hobbies. 

In public, they appeared polite people, so that no one would know absence of public displays of affection were normal. They didn’t burden others with their emotions. He always opened her door in public. He drove the car around to the door if it was raining and they were caught in the rain. She always said thank you when he did these things, even if she never met eye contact anymore. He always let her order first. She always ordered only one glass of moderately priced wine. He never drank anything but water with lemon when they were together in public.  Her drink ensured she wouldn’t find him irritating. His lack of drink ensured he wouldn’t say anything about her irritating habits, like her nail checking, and ever shortening hair cuts, and larger costume jewelry. Her large expensive handbags were ridiculous. Caricature of a woman. And him, with his pot belly and supposed gym trainer. He had gone soft years ago. As soon as she had started to lose her battle with gravity. And why he had chosen to buy a new golf cart just to go look at his boat at the marina was crazy. His golf carts were the equivalent of her handbags. He just didn’t know it. They knew they judged each other. The lack of looking said it all. And they had more coping techniques.

He enjoyed a good, long smoke with a very good cigar and glass of bourbon.

She had allergies and enjoyed instead long shopping trips in nearby cities when not taking off for a beach vacation or other get-away with girlfriends. She limited herself to two glasses of wine on a shopping trip, but she never kept track of the margaritas. 

When they traveled together, which was regularly (a great gap of not being seen together is a no-no in their set), it was to see relatives and their children and their grandchildren. Or appear at his company parties. Or their clubs fundraisers.

Sometimes they came on separate flights.

Sometimes they traveled together.

Had they been cell mates, one may have shivved the other, if another option hadn’t presented itself, like an early heart attack. 

Marie sometimes admitted, like most woman, that Paul drove her crazy or she could just kill him, but it was the exasperation of a typical wife. And soon they were as peaceful as apple pie. He never said he’d kill her. Men are advised never to do that, and it is too obvious to say why.

Their marriage was a death do us part kind of affair. A family mausoleum of fidelities. 

And they had found ample ways to cope.

Like her confiding in girlfriends who were just out of their standard circle of friends so she could excommunicate them easily and not worry about not being invited to cookouts. She never kept a hairdresser longer than a couple of years. And she always selected ones on their way out, with dreams of becoming something more. The ones that talked more about themselves and barely listened. The ones with the occasion track on their arm or sinking look in their face. Those were her favorite. They would disappear forever quickly from the salons and spas. 

Paul the same. Except his was the male version of caddies and bartenders and boat repairmen. They never listened or asked questions. It mattered little who they were or how long they stayed. He couldn’t even tell you if any were married. God forbid he be asked to give a detailed descriptions. He asked enough questions to make them feel he was a nice guy, but cared very little about their answers. And this suited them. 

But the fog was encircling them now, and the VIP lounge was deserted enough that they had to face each other if only temporarily.

“We should get a hotel,” she said.

“I have enough of those,” he said.

“A room. Or two.”

“The airport hotel is a dump. I’m not staying there. The fog will be lifting.”

Marie scrolled her weather app.

“No, it isn’t lifting anytime soon. We’re stuck here. And I’d rather do it lying down.”

“With your feet up. Of course. I’ll get you a room.”

“I’ll get it myself. You can stay here.”

“Stay,” Paul said.

Marie stopped and looked at him for the first time. 

“Why?”

He pursed his lips. 

“The fog is going to lift and we’ll be able to go. Too much trouble to get a room. They’re booked up, anyway.”

The anxiety on his face was strange. It was like a halloween mask, the kind with the elastic band around the back, the kind that got sweaty.

“Are you feeling alright?”

“No.”

Their marriage closed in around them. Paul was thinking about it even before the fog rolled in.

“We aren’t going to live forever, and I don’t want to live unhappily.”

“The fog will lift,” Marie said. “This is only temporary.”

Paul saw his life

beginning to end. 

“We’re doing it wrong,” he said.

“We’re fine, Paul. Everyone is doing it. You have your bourbon. I have my credit cards. The fog will lift and we’ll see our grandchildren.”

“And you will be overly affection to our son-in-law who irritates me and take our daughter for a manicure, and I’ll buy our daughter a SUV and spoil our grandson by sending him to camp. We’ve learned to cope, but coping is not enough, is it?”

“You mean we only have one life? And we should live it to the fullest? I don’t want to hear that. We have eternal life after it all.”

“Really? Because of how well we have behaved? Or because you think we will be forgiven because we confess?”

“Of course. This isn’t all there is. Couldn’t be. What a waste if it were.”

“What a waste if it isn’t. What if we end up together forever? Is that really what you want? For all eternity?”

“Like we won’t have freedom to do what we like? We are not angels. We do as we please. So, Paul, enough. The fog will lift. Go to the bar. I’m getting a room. I’ll see you when the fog lifts and they have our flight ready.”

“Marie. Marie,” Paul said from the window while looking out at the fog.

Marie came out of her daydream of words and emotions and drama.

“Hmmm?”

“Let’s get a room. The fog isn’t going to lift soon. Maybe we should just go home.” Paul hadn’t spoken since they had entered the VIP lounge.

“I don’t want to chance a drive in this fog. I’d rather stay in the hotel. I’d hate for us to get in an accident. The roads have too many bends. Our flight will just take off late today or tonight.”

“Alright,” Paul said thinking how much he enjoyed the sound of a few ice cubes in an old fashion glass before pouring is favorit amber colored drink over them. It was the simple things. His life had order and purpose and quiet. Marie was the perfect partner. He was so blessed he sometimes felt guilty not reflecting on it.

“Well, lets go.”

“Alright.”