#SHAUN YOU SHORTIE

[three-out-of-four]

…your bf told shaun how tall you are…

IN MY DEFENSE!! I am very excited and needed to plan out my outfit!!!

…she is a big fan of your designs and wants to impress you…

LIN!!!

…anyways shaun is only five foot…

I JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF I NEEDED TO WEAR HEELS!!

…clearly you do, shorty…<3

…wHAT DO YOU MEAN BURGH IS OVER A FOOT TALLER THAN ME???

[sketch-mer-6195]

A Fall From This Height Chapter 3: Bang (Frank Castle x Isabella Kahale {OFC})

Word Count: 859 Warning(s): Cursing, lots of cursing, Blood, Gun Shot A/N: This is a shorty, but I promise Chapter 4 will make it up Taglist: @girl-of-many-fandoms​ @self-conscious-author​

As Blake drove back to New York City, his busted mouth and bleeding nose ruining his suit he screeched into the parking garage before letting out a rage filled scream in his car. How could she just treat him like shit? After all that success he brought her and the wealth. Getting out in a huff, he slammed the door shut and locked it before making his way inside to the elevator. Lucky for him it was empty. As the doors of the elevator closed and the soft music played in the background, Blake looked at his disheveled and bleeding face. If he wasn’t in so much pain, he would wince and curse at himself for letting an asshole beat him up so easily. How was he going to explain this to his boss? He had to think of a perfect lie, or excuse. But that all flew out the window when the elevator doors slid open to reveal a well decorated and expensive room revealing his boss along with many of his men and colleagues and many beautiful women.

The room was a gorgeous burgundy carpet with cream colored walls and cherry wood paneling. Rich and expensive leather furniture and a bar with only the best alcohol lining the back. His boss sat at the cherry wood desk where he had at least four beautiful women in silk and satin dresses and expensive furs draped around and over their shoulders. Blake knew that Bella had to be with him, at his side. Obedient or kicking and screaming. But here he was, empty handed. And his boss knew that she didn’t hurt Blake like that.

“Blake… What the hell happened to you, laddie?” The man asked while sitting at his desk, his hand stroking one of his girls' thigh gently. Her fair skin practically glowing in the low light.

Blake cleared his throat as he walked in and did his best to look presentable. “Isabella got ahold of me. Had a bat and everything. I didn’t want to cause a scene and get the cops involved. So, I jus-”

BANG!!

“AHHH! GOD DAMN IT!!!”

Blake fell to the floor, gripping his shoulder as his boss had shot him with rather expert precision. The girls had moved away and watched in horror of what had happened. The man rose and walked over to Blake who was bleeding into the carpet, luckily it was the color that it was. He crouched down and pressed the barrel off the gun into the wound that he just caused, making Blake cry out in agony.

“Do ya really think that for one Fucking Second, that I believed that line of bullshit? Hmm!?” He barked, his Irish accent growing thick with each passing syllable. “Now, where is my little tropical lass?”

Blake looked up at his boss, knowing he had to be careful what he said next. “Shaun… I swear, I tried to get her t-”

A loud crack echoed in the room as Blake got pistol whipped by his boss. Shaun’s nose was flaring as his frustration was growing more and more with each passing second. He did not want to hear the lies and excuses.

“WHERE IS SHE!?!” Shaun roared.

“Roxbury! She’s in Roxbury…” Blake whimpered, if you could call it a whimper.

Shaun motioned with his head to get Blake up and out of the room so he can be seen by the doctor that was in the house. Sighing at the dark spot that Blake had bled out, another one of his men called the carpet cleaner to get an appointment and soon walked out to explain the details. Straightening his suit and holstering his gun in his waistband, Shaun walked back to his desk and patted his lap for one of the girls to sit in which a blonde happily obliged. With some attention from the buxom blonde, Shaun gestured to Jimmy to his desk which he did and raised a brow.

“What is it?” Jimmy asked as he looked over Shaun.

He raised a brow back, mirroring his expression and clicked his tongue. “Gather your best men, make a plan and find me Bella. She needs to repay her debt with us.”

“And if she fights back?” Jimmy inquired.

Shaun snorted and gave Jimmy a bored expression that grew serious. “Bring me her, skin and bones if ya have to. I want her here, on her knees begging for mercy from the Lord so I can have the privilege to blow her bloody fucking brains out.”

With a nod, Jimmy gathered some men before leaving out to recruit several more. Shaun on the other hand, took a heavy swig of his brandy and trying to calm his nerves. He looked across his desk the papers, lists and spreadsheets of money, gigs and jobs that were done. As he reached over her grabbed a picture of a mug shot that was once Isabella Kahale in the NYPD Most Wanted. Beaten and with an expressionless stare at the camera, Shaun chuckled and kissed the image before laying the picture down. He was going to have his revenge on the island girl.

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I Watched 160 Movies in 2021

Five Stars

The Atomic Cafe (1982) Ball of Fire (1941) Belfast (2021) Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) Capricorn One (1978) The Celluloid Closet (1995) David Byrne’s American Utopia (2020) Footlight Parade (1933) Fourteen Hours (1951) Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) The Green Knight (2021) Hamilton (2020) Licorice Pizza (2021) Manhunter (1986) Metropolitan (1990) The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021) Monterey Pop (1968) Nomadland (2020) Pig (2021) Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) Shiva Baby (2021) The Sugarland Express (1974) Titane (2021) West Side Story (2021) Woodstock (1970)

Four Stars

The Amityville Horror (1979) Another Round (2020) Arachnophobia (1990) The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Bad Education (2019) Barbarella (1968) Bone Tomahawk (2015) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Color Adjustment (1992) Don’t Look Back (1967) Emma (2020) Flight of the Navigator (1986) The Fog (1980) The French Dispatch (2021) The Freshman (1925) From Russia with Love (1963) Get Shorty (1995) Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Hail Satan? (2019) Hard Eight (1996) Howard (2018) In the Heights (2021) Lady Snowblood (1973) Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986) Last Night in Soho (2021) Love and a .45 (1994) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) Marwencol (2010) Mother (2009) My Little Chickadee (1940) The Naughty Nineties (1945) Nightmare Alley (1947) The Raven (1935) Rocky II (1979) Seven Chances (1925) The Silent Partner (1978) Sound of Metal (2019) The Sparks Brothers (2021) Stoker (2013) Strait-Jacket (1964) Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021) Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) The Sweatbox (2002) Tampopo (1985) To Die For (1995) The Towering Inferno (1974) Waking Ned Devine (1998)

Three and a Half Stars

The Black Cat (1934) Carmine Street Guitars (2019) The In-Laws (1979) Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992) Kid 90 (2021) Nightmare Alley (2021) A Nightmare on Elm Street II: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) No Time to Die (2021) Save Yourselves! (2020) Sign o’ the Times (1987) Soul (2020) Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) Summer of ‘42 (1971) The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

Three Stars

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) The African Queen (1951) Annette (2021) Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) The Black Cauldron (1985) Black Widow (2021) Camelot (1967) Class Action Park (2020) Cluny Brown (1946) Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) Dick Johnson is Dead (2020) The Egg and I (1947) Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) Female Trouble (1974) The Gilded Lily (1935) L'avventura (1960) The Last Blockbuster (2020) Layer Cake (2004) The Living Desert (1953) Luca (2021) Mank (2020) The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story (2020) Original Cast Album: Company (1970) The Plague Dogs (1982) The Power of the Dog (2021) Promising Young Woman (2020) Shirley (2020) Shoot the Piano Player (1960) Showbiz Kids (2020) Star 80 (1983) The Suicide Squad (2021) Theodora Goes Wild (1936) Three on a Match (1932) Val (2021)

Two and a Half Stars

The Donut King (2020) Frank and Ollie (1995) Game of Death (1978) The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss (2020) When a Stranger Calls (1979)

Two Stars

All of Me (1984) Blood and Black Lace (1964) Brother Bear (2003) Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991) The Fox and the Hound (1981) Free Guy (2021) I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) Plan B (2021) The Ramen Girl (2008) The Rescuers (1977) The Strongest Man in the World (1975) Super Troopers (2001) Time After Time (1979) The Visitors (1993)

One Star

Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966) Cars (2006) Catalina Caper (1967) Chicken Little (2005) Count Dracula’s Great Love (1972) Dinosaur (2000) The Dead Talk Back (1957) Home on the Range (2004) Escape 2000 (1983) The Lion King 1½ (2004) Malignant (2021) (look, I didn’t like it, okay?) The New Mutants (2020) Rollergator (1996) Treasure Planet (2002) The Undead (1957)

[loveize]

thank you for tagging me @dullahandame <3

favorite color: black

currently reading: god i'm reading like three different webtoons right now,, the girl downstairs by songah min, she's hopeless by seokwoo, and a good day to be a dog by lee hey

last song: freak like me by halestorm

last movie: we only got partway through it but i watched howl's moving castle with some friends the other night

last series: i was gonna say elite cuz that's what i've been watching recently but my sister and i watched shaun the sheep last night so

sweet, savory, or spicy: sweet

craving: bottled tea and also i really want to see my bf :(

tea or coffee: either as long as they're cold

currently working on: job applications i guess? that's about it

@mustaint @feelingofhome @the-sarcastic-shortie @boywizard and anyone else who wants to

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Hell is For Children: Animorphs as Children’s Lit

[Guest post from Cates!]

So a couple of months ago Bug asked me to write a post about why Animorphs is Middle Grade/Children’s Fiction, not Young Adult. Since she asked, I’ve read several wonderful posts from other people questioning or explaining what the difference is between Middle Grade and Young Adult, where Animorphs fits, and why it matters. Here’s my two cents as a children’s literature scholar.

To start, Animorphs’ 20,000-30,000 word count per book is a big hint it’s not YA fiction. Obviously, a book with a low word count is not automatically a children’s book, and a book with a high word count is not automatically a book for adults. But if Animorphs was aimed at teens, Applegate would likely have been expected to make the books longer. While there are a lot of great YA novels that are as short as or shorter than your average Animorphs book (check out BookRiot’s list of 100 YA novels under 250 pages,) most YA series, and especially fantasy or scifi YA series, are expected to top 100,000 words. (The three books in the Diviners series by Libba Bray have a total wordcount of 520,000 words; Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy tops 400,000 words, for example.)

Animorphs’ word count isn’t enough on its own to exclude the series from YA classification, but Animorphs’ short word count also fits the trend of children’s—not YA—series fiction in the 1990s. In order to understand this trend, and why it produced books specifically for children, not teens, we need to jump back in time to WWII. Because so many American men were drafted into the military, women took over jobs that had been almost exclusively done by men, like mechanics, sales, electricians, etc. When WWII ended, thousands of men returned home, but women didn’t leave the workforce. Realizing they had an excess of young men and not enough jobs, the US government created the GI Bill, allowing soldiers to attend college for free or at a steeply reduced cost, thus stemming the influx of workers and giving the economy and industry room to grow.

At the same time, families were having children (and those children were surviving) at an unprecedented rate. Thanks to the GI Bill, college was no longer something reserved for wealthy white men, but something available to the middle and even lower class. A college education offered social and economic mobility, and the Baby Boomers, children of the GI Bill recipients, became the first generation to grow up with the idea that college was something that could and should be pursued by all.

Then, the Baby Boomers began having children in the late 1970s through early 1990s, meaning a large chunk of those children (including Bug and I) were in elementary school in mid 1990s to early 2000s. Thanks to their parents, a higher percentage of American adults than ever before had attended college. Thanks to advancements in women’s medicine, psychology, sociology, and education, among other fields, people understood as never before the importance of instilling a love of reading in children at a young age. The huge middle class was willing to invest lots of time and money in their children’s educations, because at this point not having a college education was seen as a barrier to success.

I’m sure you can see where this is going. (Kidding).

Children’s publishing exploded in the 1990s because children—or, more accurately, their parents—were seen as a huge, untapped market. Previously, children’s publishing didn’t receive as much money or attention because, the logic went, children did not have money and therefore couldn’t buy books. But then the publishing industry realized that there were literally millions of parents willing to spend money on their children’s education, and publishers like Scholastic, Dutton, Dial, Penguin, Random House, and others rushed to take advantage of this new customer demographic.

Of the ten books featured on this Scholastic bookfair poster from 2000, seven are series fiction.

Serialized fiction—ie, stories that took place over the course of several books about the same characters and/or in the same setting—was the perfect way for publishing houses to capitalize on this new market. And hoo boy was it successful. From 1993 to 1995, Goosebumps books were being sold at a rate of approximately 4 million books a month. That means roughly 130,000 books were sold every day.

Here’s a few names to bring you back: Bailey School Kids, The Magic Treehouse, Babysitter’s Club, Junie B. Jones, Encyclopedia Brown, Cam Jansen, Horrible Harry, Secrets of Droon, The Magic Attic Club, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Bunnicula, The Boxcar Children, The American Girls, Amelia’s Notebook, Dear America, Wayside School, Choose Your Own Adventure…we could keep going for days. All of those series have two things in common: one, they were either published between 1985 and 2005 and/or experienced a huge resurgence in the 90s, and two, they’re all middle grade novels. Some are aimed at younger children, like Junie B. Jones and The Magic Treehouse, and some are aimed at older children, like the Dear America series and A Series of Unfortunate Events.

The point is, Animorphs is so clearly a product of its time (and not just because of the Hansen Brothers references,) it slots perfectly into the trend of series fiction for children. If you want to claim Animorphs is YA, you also need to claim all of the series I just listed above.

Now, let’s talk about the main argument I see in favor Animorphs being YA: the dark content.

This is my personal wheelhouse. I’m planning on someday doing my PhD dissertation on trauma, violence, war, and trauma recovery in Middle Grade—not YA—fiction. I always find it funny when people use descriptors like cute, sweet, innocent, silly, light, and simple to describe children’s books. While there are certainly plenty of children’s books that are one or more of those things, there are also dozens that are the polar opposite—dark, complex, serious, violent, and deep. I once read a review of The Golden Compass which said “it’s not like other children’s books with a clear cut good guy and bad guy and a simple message.” I don’t know how many children’s books the author of the article had read, but I’m guessing not a lot. Let’s just do a blunt reality check with a few of my favorites—including some picture books which are typically for an even younger audience than Middle Grade. Spoilers for all of the books I’m about to mention.

Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki This book follows a little boy who is sent to a Japanese interment camp during WWII. He and his family deal with abuse, starvation, and sickness. Suggested reading age*? Kindergarten and up.

*(For this and all subsequent books I used reviews from Kirkus, the Horn Book, and School Library Journal to determine suggested reading age.)

Check out this picture of Shorty playing baseball while an armed soldier watches him from a guard tower. Isn’t it cute, sweet, and innocent?

Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco Pink and Say are 15-year-old boys serving as Union Soldiers during the Civil War. Confederate Soldiers kill Pink’s mother, Pink and Say become POWs, and Pink is hanged because he is African American. Suggested reading age? First grade and up.

Fox by Margaret Wild This book starts grim and just gets grimmer. Dog and Magpie have been burned in a wildfire. Dog loses an eye, Magpie a wing. Magpie rides on Dog’s head—she is his eyes, he is her wings. Fox comes and convinces Magpie to leave Dog and come with him. There are definite sexual undertones. The book ends with the possibility that Dog and Magpie will be reunited, but no certainty. Suggested reading age? Six and up.

[The text says “He stops, scarcely panting./ There is silence between them/ Neither moves, neither speaks./ Then Fox shakes Magpie off his back/ as he would a flea,/ and pads away./ He turns and looks at Magpie, and he says,/ ‘Now you and Dog will know what it is like/ to be truly alone.’/ Then he is gone./ In the stillness, Magpie hears a faraway scream./ She cannot tell if it is a scream of triumph/ or despair.”]

Tell me this isn’t a total punch in the gut.

The Rabbits by Shaun Tan The introduction of rabbits to Australia is used as an allegory for European colonization and the casual destruction of the Aboriginals’ lives and cultures. Suggested reading age? Six and up.

The Scarlet Stockings Spy by Trinka Hakes Noble A girl spies on the British during the Revolutionary War while her brother fights. He’s killed and there’s actually a description of her finding the “bloodstained hole” in his coat where the bullet struck him. How cute and silly! Suggested reading age? Second grade and up.

Meet Addy: An American Girl by Connie Rose Porter I think this works as a nice comparison to Animorphs because it’s another long-running, popular series aimed at kids just starting to read chapter books. Among other incidents, there’s a graphic description of Addy watching her brother get whipped by an overseer and a passage where another overseer forces Addy to eat worms. I actually give American Girls a lot of points for not shying away from the uglier parts of history. They don’t always get it right (*cough* Kaya *cough*) but those books are more complex than I think most people realize. Suggested reading age? Second grade and up.

My Teacher Flunked the Planet by Bruce Coville From the sight of a child starving to death to homeless children freezing in the streets, Coville certainly doesn’t avoid the darker side of human nature. Pretty sure most adults only noticed the funny green alien on the cover. Suggested reading age? Fourth grade and up.

“That was the day we crept, invisible, into a prison where men and women were being tortured for disagreeing with their government. What had already been done to those people was so ugly I cannot bring myself to describe it, even though the memory of it remains like a scar burned into my brain with a hot iron.

“Even worse was the moment when it was about to start again. When I saw what the uniformed man was going to do to the woman strapped to the table, I pressed myself against the wall and closed my eyes. But even with my hands clamped over my ears I couldn’t shut out her scream.”

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai The Vietnam War, migrants drowning in the ocean, refugee camps, racism…this book is a bit like Animorphs in that it’s got a surprisingly dry sense of humor even as awful events take place. Suggested reading age? Fourth grade and up.

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson A pretty harsh look at the realities of America’s foster care system as told by a girl who could give Rachel Berenson a run for her money. It’s not afraid to show that parents aren’t automatically good people. Suggested reading age? Third grade and up.

Stepping on the Cracks and Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn If WWII, bullying, dead siblings, draft dodging, and parental abuse are too light and fluffy for you, you can always read about a child consumed with survivor’s guilt because she started the fire that killed her mother. Suggested reading age? Fifth grade and up.

“‘How do you think Jimmy would feel if he knew his own sister was helping a deserter while he lay dying in Belgium?’

‘It wasn’t like that!’ I said, stung by the unfairness of her question. ‘Stuart was sick, he needed me! I wish Jimmy had been down there in the woods, too! Then he’d be alive, not dead!’

Mother slapped me then, hard as she could, right in the face. ‘Never say anything like that again!’ she cried. ‘Never!’”

I could go on (and on and on and on) about trauma narratives for children, but suffice to say while I think Animorphs is probably the most brilliant one I’ve ever read, it’s far from the only one. Kids’ books can be dark, which is good, because if we only tell stories about white, able-bodied children living in big houses with two loving parents then we’re excluding the majority of real children’s lived experiences from our narratives.

There’s one more point I’d like to address: without sounding overly accusatory, I think a lot of the compulsion to consider Animorphs YA instead of children’s fiction is born of the adult bias against children. I’ve mentioned this before on the podcast, but Children’s Literature scholar Maria Nikolajeva created the term aetonormativity to describe society’s tendency to value the adult over the child. Like I discussed above, we have this idea that children’s books are somehow sweet and innocent, while YA fiction is darker and grittier because it addresses so-called ‘adult’ topics like sex, drugs, suicide, violence, and death.

As I hope I’ve established above, just because a book addresses these topics that doesn’t automatically mean it’s for teens. Books about heavy subjects can, are, and should be written for children. I think most of us are fans of Animorphs because it’s a series that sticks with us long after we close the neon-cloud covers. It’s a series that strongly disputes the notion of a clear right and wrong, and doesn’t shy away from the atrocities of war. And it was written for children. It was sold to children. It was read by children.

Some of us adults are just cool enough to read children’s books that treat child readers with the respect they deserve.

— Cates

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My lovely son Shaun and his best friend Wayne (coughhiscrushcough)

[sterlingtheprincechicken]

" Shorty! Can me and Wolfe tag along with you??" Andrew talking to his friend. " Sure but behave okay?" Sterling talking to Andrew. Sterling kiss Danse and hugging his son Shaun. " codsy. I'll be back." " Sir, I'll tell the others. If that's alright?" " yes, let them know." Andrew, Wolfe, and Sterling heading towards to the Boston Airport.

[wickedweeklywonders]

Movies to watch

-virtigo -green room

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Because I totally have to now, more mshenko space dads!!! Woooo!!

I have two more longer stories in mind that I’m working on, but here’s a little shorty flashback piece!

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With the sun sinking slow in the sky, the traffic at thebeach was starting to thin out a little. But there was something about hearingthe peeling laughter of Shaun that just shut everything else out. The beach wasall for them, just their little family.

“Papa!”

“Almost there, son, tell your Daddy to hurry up.”

“Hurry up, Daddy!”

“Hey now!” Kaidan laughed at Shepard’s back. His husband’shands were slowly working the sunscreen into his shoulders, down his back,while Shaun tried his best to do a headstand in the sand a few paces away.

Out in the ocean, maybe miles out, a toppled Reaper brokethe waves, catching the glint of the sun. Now, as the sun set, it was onlyvisible as a black, synthetic island out to sea. Whenever Shepard noticed it…

He tried to take a deep breath.

“Sun’s almost down, do I really need more sunscreen?”Shepard whispered over his shoulder. God, his joints ached.

“If our son getsmore sunscreen, we all get moresunscreen,” Kaidan returned. “He’s your kid, Shepard. He’s gonna noticedouble-standards right away. Might as well start young.” That sounded aboutright… “Besides, you owe me: I can tell how much you’re hurting.”

“Who knew beach-day with a three-year-old could be soexhausting?”

“Literally everyone, Shepard.”

For an hour, the three of them had been running up and downthe beach: chasing the waves when they receded, and screaming and retreatingwhen the ocean chased them back. Shaun’s little legs were carrying him prettywell, even with the wet sand and the big inflatable water-wings under his arms.

“Daddydaddydaddydaddydaddydaddy!” Shaun had cried when hefell behind, and with a heroic cry, his two dads had leapt back,each grabbed one of his arms to pull him up before the rushing foam crashed aroundtheir feet. “Daddy, it got you!”

It wasn’t strange that Shaun called out to his Daddy firstwhen he was in trouble: if Shepard needed to get lifted out of the surf, hewould call on the biotic dad first, too. What a strange feeling, it had been,though, to not be the one people called out to when things got rough.

“You’re all good, Commander,” Kaidan kissed the skin behindhis ear, hugged his bare chest. “I’ll be watching.”

“We won’t be going out too far.”

Shepard struggled to his feet, leaning on Kaidan’s shoulderto haul himself up, and Shaun cheered. Kaidan was better in shape, and thebetter lifeguard, so he’d be staying on the shore.

“Let’s go!” Shaun started tottering towards the water, grownmore placid now that the sun was setting.

“Don’t you dare, little buddy!” Shepard winced and realizedhe would not be running down to thewater.

They played around in the shallows, Shaun splashing aroundin his best doggy paddle. It was easy to ignore the corpse of the Reaper, outin the distance, for a while.

Eventually, though, Shepard was out just about to where hisnatural buoyancy was lifting his feet off the sand, treading in the water.

“Alright, son, come on, swim on out to me!”

Shaun, psyching himself up in ankle-deep water, plunged intothe water and started kicking with everything he had.

“Come on babs!” Kaidan called from the shore. Shepard triedhis best to call out, too, even though he reasoned Shaun probably couldn’t makeout what his dads were saying with how hard he was swimming.

The Reaper was at his back.

When he turned away from Harbinger to see his lover blastedbloody in the rain in a London crater. “Shepard!” the soldiers had called, andhe couldn’t just lift them up out of the surf… And when he had turned back, hehad been alone with the Reaper…

Like now.

The pull of the water, like a tractor beam. Lifting himweightless in the water.

When he looked up, Kaidan was at the water’s edge,bare-chest tanned and arms tanned even darker from all the work he’d been doingat the orchard. His shoulders bigger and his belly softer and his smile widerthan ever. Watching. Vigilant. Not that far, after all.

Shaun was burbling and laughing and still kicking whenShepard reached out and scooped him up.

“You did it!” He said, rolling around in a toe-kick to lifthis son out of the water. The little boy was clearly pooped, but had a smile asbig as his Daddy’s.

“Daddy, I did it!”

“He did it!”

“You did it!”

Swimming he and his son back to shore, little Shaun’s headwore the setting sun like a halo. Kaidan was at his back, and their smiling sonwas all he could see ahead.

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Thanks goes out to Kevin Hardy for adding some NEW Bushmaster to his radio playlist - make sure to tune in TODAY Sat 8/17/19 from noon till 3pm (link below)!!! :-) Join me today starting at Noon EDT for three hours of Main Street Blues. And don't forget to stop by the KCOR chat and say hello. You can listen and chat at: www.kconlineradio.com/listen.htm 8/17/19 Hour 1 Steppenwolf-Born To Be Wild All Time (Greatest Hits) Professor Louie & The Crowmatix-Passion In My Life (Miles Of Blues) Moonshine Society-Sweet Thing Featuring Jason Ricci (Sweet Thing) ---- Davina and The Vagabonds-Devil Horns (Sugar Drops) Roger Hurricane Wilson & the Hurricane Homeboys-This Crazy World (Live at Madlife - Woodstock, Ga) Annika Chambers Music-Stay (Kiss My Sass) Donna Hourigan & The Lucky Lips band-Crash & Burn (Talk The Talk) --- Michael Bloom and The Blues Prophecy-Old Man Blues (Whisper in the Wind) Guitar Shorty-Skin to Skin (Trying to Find My Way Back) Larkin Poe-John the Revelator (Peach) Catfish Keith-Memphis Morning Train (Catfish Crawl) Hour 2 Nat King Cole-Walking My Baby Back Home (The Greatest Hits) Roy Hawkins-Is It Too Late (Bad Luck Is Falling) Big Joe Turner-After My Laughter Came Tears (Big Joe Is Here) ---- Dudley Taft-In Your Way (Simple Life) Bushmaster Blues featuring Gary Brown-Nowhere To Stand (Dancing In The Belly of the Beast) Shaun Murphy-Can't Blame Nobody But Me (Reason To Try) ---- Dov Hammer - Blues artist-Taking My Time (Bluesoul) Altered Five Blues Band-Too Mad to Make Up (Ten Thousand Watts) Ivy Ford-Start A Fight (Harvesting My Roots) ---- Josh Newcom-Roll Train Roll (The Blues Gonna Getcha) Bruce Katz-Going Places (Solo Ride) Coco Montoya-Trouble (Coming In Hot) ---- Delbert McClinton-Any Other Way (Tall, Dark, and Handsome) Charlie Wooton Project-Fulton Alley (Blue Basso) Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling-Movin' On My Way (Lucky Guy!) Hour 3 Jonny T-Bird & the MPs-Woke Up This Morning (Hot Stuff (Live At The Red Dot)) Jason Ricci and The Bad Kind-Don't Badger The Witness (My Chops Are Rolling!!) Iron Mike Norton-Black Water (The Invisible Man) --- Son Seals-Now That I'm Down (Delux https://www.instagram.com/p/B1RqD6sjFNK/?igshid=4lwmqe173sv8