18th
Excerpt
from: Mega Mall Mega Problems
“Good,” Daria said under her breath.
They soon returned to the bus. Daria hoped that the
journey back would be less nausea inducing.
Quinn and the others left the Mall soon afterwards.
“Maybe we’ll be back sometime,” Sam said.
“Maybe, but too soon,” Quinn said. “I have found what I
wanted to find.”
“Are you sure?” Xavier asked.
Quinn nodded.
“Now, where’s the car again?”
“We’ll find it,” Quinn said encouragingly.
“It will just take a while,” Sam said.
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79
Excerpt
from: Mystery in Polonia
It
didn’t take long. “Here,” the Doctor said.
Tegan
looked. “This is later,” she said.
“That it
is,” the Doctor said.
“Another
incident like the other one?” Turlough asked.
“Yes,”
the Doctor answered.
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Excerpt from:
Spider Quinn
“Not a thing,” Daria said.
There was an awkward pause.
“That's some song you're working on. It's different,”
Daria added.
“Nothing different about it. Nothing at all,” Trent
denied “I gotta go and, uh, practice my same music that uh... isn't any
different from the other stuff I play.” He then left.
“What was that?” Daria asked.
“You're starting to get weirded out, aren't you?” Jane
asked.
“No, absolutely not.” She jumped a little as the doorbell
rang.
Jane opened the door.
“Pizza!” the guy there said.
Artie Walker was a little worried. He was sure that he
saw SpiderGirl carrying a cheerleader when had dropped the last Pizza. He was
certain that she was one of Them. At least the Lanes were good customers. “Could
you hurry up? I got other pizzas to deliver, and if I don't get them there on
time, they're free. I really gotta go.”
“On your way over here, you didn't see any, um, lights in
the sky or anything?” the bespectacled friend asked.
“Just ‘SpiderGirl’ and she was carrying a cheerleader
away!”
“You think she’s an alien?” Jane asked.
“Don’t you? No human can do what she does!”
Meanwhile, back at the Morgendorffers, Helen brought
desert up to Quinn’s room. Except she didn’t see Quinn there, just Stacy
looking at something on Quinn’s laptop and Tiffany looking through a magazine.
“Where’s Quinn?” she asked.
“Um, in the bathroom!” Stacy said.
“That’s OK,” Helen said, noting her daughter’s friend’s
usual slight panic. “I’ll leave her desert with you.”
“Sure.”
“I know Sandi left. Are they OK?”
“I don’t think so,” Stacy answered. “It’s like they’re
drifting apart.”
“I see.”
Helen then went back downstairs, thinking about what
Stacy had said.
SpiderGirl and Brittany arrived at the Crewe Neck
gatehouse.
“Thanks for the trip. It was wonderful,” Brittany said.
“You’re welcome,” SpiderGirl said. “I’ll get back to you
about what you asked.”
“Sure,” Brittany said.
SpiderGirl waited until Brittany had entered the gated
estate, then started heading back to Glen Oaks Lane.
The Pizza guy was still talking, as they ate their pizza.
“... and anyone who tells you aliens are taking over their body is nuts. All
they want is our skin 'cause your skin remembers what it feels.”
“Hmm. Hey, you ever written any lyrics?” Trent wondered.
The guy’s pager then beeped. “Fired again? Man, this
happens all the time. Ever since my encounter with those darn aliens!”
“Oops,” Daria murmured.
SpiderGirl arrived back at the red brick house on Glen
Oaks Lane and quickly changed back to being the usual Quinn.
“I’m back,” she said to Stacy as she entered her room.
Stacy handed her the desert. “Your mom brought this up
for us. I’ve already had mine,” she said.
“Thanks,” Quinn said.
“So, what was Daria doing?” Stacy asked.
“She just went to her friend’s place.”
“OK.”
“I might have run into someone else from school, though,”
Quinn said.
“Who?”
“Someone who asked me something about Daddy,” Quinn
answered quietly. “I don’t need to tell you who they were.”
“Oh.”
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Total:
621
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