Mawgrim

Well, it’s on the map of Pern, so I thought it would bo ok to include it. There are several Holds on Pern named after the original settlers. If Red Hanrahan had been more egotistical, Ruatha would have probably been called Hanrahan Hold!

Albert stopped outside the house. It didn’t look anything like the place he’d first seen nearly sixty years ago. Then there had been darkened brickwork covered with glossy green ivy, the windows peeping through like half-lidded eyes. Now the walls were rendered and painted in a warm yellow shade. The garden had been tamed. Brightly coloured plastic toys on the front lawn showed children lived here. He couldn’t suppress a shudder at the thought. He’d felt compelled to return one last time. T

Aged 10, Albert and his younger sister Florence went to live in the old house at Coldbrook with their parents. What happened there would change all of their lives.

I envision S'brin and M'rell doing a lot of heavy drinking while D'gar is away.

They will need that support. Telgar Weyr will prove to be run very differently from Fort.

Two sevendays had passed since Rina’s untimely death and M’rell wasn’t coping well. In the dining hall, it was clear he wasn’t his usual self. He’d talk if anyone spoke to him directly, but otherwise he kept quiet. It was as if there was an invisible barrier around him. He’d spent a couple of evenings in D’gar and S’brin’s weyr, mostly numbing himself with alcohol. D’gar tried to make sure he didn’t drink too much the night before Fall. ‘I don’t know what to say to him, sometimes.’ S’brin v

That was dramatic. I particularly like the section from Roscoe's point of view, wanting to protect his herd. A horse that size can certainly do a lot of damage. Sam and Pietro thought quickly too and those three thugs certainly aren’t going to forget their humiliation.

A story that kept me hooked all the way through waiting for the next chapter. Great characters, pacing and dialogue.

I'm not so sure about that. Dr Baby Broker was in it for the money, so all of the couples who 'adopted' the babies would have had to pay up. The transaction might have been disguised in some way, but I reckon all of the adoptive parents knew what they were doing. However, they may have done it for the 'right' reasons. Perhaps they had already tried the conventional adoption channels and been rejected for one reason or another. Desperate people can make bad choices. Megan took that well. It's going to take a while for both her and Kyle to really come to terms with what they've just learned.

This is one of the few stories I've read that had me laughing out loud, many times. It was also different to read about an ordinary character gradually finding his self-confidence rather than a hunk everyone drools over as soon as they see him. Bandit the dog was a great character, too.

If it was so good then why was the mere thought of never seeing him again filling him with despair that felt close to blowing up his skull? Exactly. Maks is deluding himself. He was before, but didn't know it. Now that his eyes have been opened, he can't just go back to how it was. At least, not without doing himself a lot of damage.

The depredations of Threadfall and a number of nasty plagues made them lose more than they'd envisaged, I think, plus the necessity of moving from the Southern to the Northern continent. I think they also intended to have a much more equal society than the semi-feudal one they ended up with, which was the point of the Charter. Modern medicine is one of those things we all take for granted and theirs would have been far more advanced than where we are currently. i bet they wouldn't even have been able to imagine how grim it would become once they'd lost a certain degree of technology. i read a very good fanfic where a third generation surgeon on Pern was becoming increasingly frustrated at having to ration out treatments as the high tech equipment gradually failed and couldn't be replaced.

Based on the number of comments saying much the same, I’d better start writing😀

Something similar to this happened to my cousin when he was travelling on business. They were stuck for two days until the road was cleared!

What a harrowing story. Poor Kim. It's a wonder she copes as well as she does most of the time. And the secret is revealed...

Thank you. Although it was originally written as a one off, I’ve found myself wondering how Craig and James's relationship progresses.

Lovely slice of life. I can identify with Zane's way of having to plan out everything and thinking of all the possible pitfalls beforehand. When you have that kind of brain it's so easy to talk yourself out of doing anything, fearing your worst case scenarios will come true. What a good job he was able to overcome his reservations this time. Looks like he and Fenix will meet up again.

Life is a journey that must be traveled, no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. Oliver Goldsmith Craig tapped his fingers impatiently against the steering wheel, craning his neck to try and see how far the jam extended. As winter dusk fell, all that was visible was a long, snaking trail of red taillights, disappearing around the curve of the motorway. He glanced at the clock again. Four-thirty. He’d got the call from the Operations Centre just after two and had left Birmingham as q

Cinema engineer Craig is tired of life on the road; eating junk food, staying in bland hotels and never knowing if he’ll get home at night. He can’t see any way out until an unexpected turn of events and an encounter with a fellow traveller makes him realise there might be an alternative.

Don't think he'll play it again for a while!

Of course, they don't know that. Bet a lot of people had friends or family st Benden, or vice versa and ended up never seeing them again.

Yes, it's foreboding on a number of levels. Medical technology on Pern at this point is somewhere around the Middle Ages; although the healers are aware of certain conditions from old records, they can’t perform surgery or other interventions. A lot of people will inevitably die from conditions their ancestors would have considered treatable. Rina most likely died from an ectopic pregnancy.

The usual festivities marked the end of another Turn. New weyrlings joined the existing riders and with Loranth’s clutch of seventeen eggs hardening on the Sands, there would soon be a few more. T’ron solemnly read out the list of those who hadn’t made it; K’torl and H’fra among them. It wasn’t just riders who had died, of course; there were many other names on the list; weyrfolk who had lived to a ripe old age before passing away of natural causes, several who had succumbed to illness or accide

Poor Maks is so messed up. This is probably the saddest part of it. Maybe one day, when he was fifty and stuck in a boring, worn out, overwhelming marriage, he would remind himself of Aleks and the thought of being with him would make him happy, even if only for a moment.

This is really coming together. I didn't think Matt would be able to ignore what was going on as Seamus was able to. Glad that the FBI have come in.