1 New Shirt Counting days in clothes you have not seen

1 Winter stain » "They taste like raspberries," she said, as if that explained everything. Thom has always been a closet hedonist.

1Ephemera » Character drabbles. Playground torture, love letters, undergrads without any underwear on, spies in fires, old men and young, awkward lingerie models. Dancers, anguished gay boys and nine-year-olds learning Hebrew. Anything that gets asked of me.

1 Workplace resolutions Catherine Connolly is explicitly fed up of her colleague-and the disgusting trash she reads. PWP

See no evil He had never meant to catch her. CaryxNessa, Pornish.

Expressions "It really worries everyone. Personally, I wouldn't care if you never said another word, but you know you upset people. That's why you're here. Who do you think you're being kind to this time?" Catherine Connolly is, for once, more sister than doctor.

RitD C al fine The music was beautiful. Intense. Nith's synaethesia shivered and shifted in sympathy, so he felt the leaps and runs of it as if a hand were running up his spine, passing gently over his eyes.

1 A knack for words Paula remembers that, still. He had a knack for saying exactly the right thing, always leaving room for hope even if he didn't believe it.

1 The Professor He laughed, yet it sounded almost wistful, and Lyra had always thought wist and laughter could never quite match up, on account of using different muscles. The man looked familiar.

2 Off the record Henry laughed, walking back to the sill and trying to remember how to stand naturally, possibly looking pensive—If he'd be so good. "Just letting you know," he said. "Objectification is bloody uncomfortable." Henry/Calanthe and not for children.