Round 5, Week 2
I’ve been trapped under something heavy all week, so this Week 2 Wrap-Up is coming to you with three-fifths of Week 3 on the books. This is not a problem, good readers; this is a gift. You see, this means that the overwhelming anticipation you normally feel upon reading these roundups, the nervous waiting that typically stymies your weekends and causes you to obsessively refresh the TMC page every Monday until there’s new work to be read, this week that emotional turmoil can be immediately soothed by your diving in to the next chapters. Three of them are already up and waiting for you below this post. See? I did this for you, you sweet-tempered, good-looking reader. I did it all for you. Pinkie swear.
So:
- I started last week off with the second installment of “Len,” moving our narrator back into her past as she grappled with how she might deal with the startling accusation that closed Chapter 1 and get the answers she needs to move forward.
- On Tuesday, Jann took over the reins of “The May Not Mean To, But They Do,” and she managed to get Skip out of The Closet of Neglected Band Instruments and into a comfortable, torment-free silence beside his strange new friend Lindsey Buckingham Palace. At least, it might be torment-free. Probably. Damn teenagers, they’re so hard to read.
- Richard threw some more obstacles at “Bedeviled Ham” on Wednesday. Or one big obstacle, really. But as Ham has told his therapist, he’s cursed with a perfect life, so that big obstacle was just wiped from the record. And with it just might soon follow Ham’s sanity.
- Valary moved into “Welcome to Boomtown” on Thursday, and we saw its protagonist wheezing through hospital rooms with yet another doctor giving frightening diagnoses in oddly-accented English. Things aren’t looking too good for our man Earl.
- Finally, Cary finished the week with another installment of “Rummy.” The safe, quiet sanctuary of Rummy’s nursery room stable turned to the stormy banks of the Mississippi River, where we learned Daddy might not be the saintly man his daughter led us to believe he was.
