Episode Two Re-Cap

Raisa and the Morales family share lunch without electricity while Polly welcomes her husband, Lyndsey, home to share lunch with Bobbi and Peter, making him a reluctant witness to the blossoming friendship between the two. Sydney meets Petra on the beach, where he coaxes her into sharing her pain at missing Omar. Dinah and Sam [...]

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Segment 2.10

Now that he’d tamed his hair with some water and a touch of Bobbi’s conditioning mousse and removed most of those dreadful black clothes, the man looked almost handsome. Sure, his muscled torso didn’t quite fill Albert’s favorite fishing shirt out and those tattoos seemed rather vulgar, but at least he seemed more relaxed. His [...]

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Segment 2.9

Wyatt added the last detail to the wall in the living room. Now the ornate certificate with the enormous decorative capital letter introducing the brief text rested in the middle of a nest of photographs depicting Wyatt and Pug on various active vacations, always smiling, often with arms or hands locked together. He tapped his [...]

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Segment 2.8

Polly nudged Lyndsey aside, driving him away from the plate where she worked to stack the cold cuts.
“Back off, old man,” she commanded.
“I’m trying to help out,” he told her.
“I know that but, please, let me do this one little part. There’s not much I can do some days so let me have my [...]

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Segment 2.7

The little cat made itself at home, flopping into a furry “u” shape, tail curled up across its back legs. It licked each paw, back and front. One eye always seemed to stray to Sugar as she scrubbed the kitchen floor by hand. The cat turned partway on its back and blurted out a sighing [...]

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Segment 2.6

PePé led Raisa up the stairs of his son’s home and waited to let her pass at the top. He pointed down the hall to the room where he had spent so much of his time in the past few weeks.
“My pride and joy,” he told her. “For my son’s pride and joy to be.”
Raisa [...]

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Segment 2.5

“Look at this guy,” Dinah declared. She had the cruiser’s wheel while Sam scribbled away at a report, rocking in tune with his MP3 player. The bass thunked out from around his headphones as he moved.
“Hey,” Dinah demanded, wriggling Sam’s kneecap. Sam squinted out at the street. “What?” he snapped, a little too loud for [...]

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Segment 2.4

Emerald Garland plied the stubborn, cold blob of goulash with another handful of spices. “There. Maybe a bit of cilantro will help. I don’t know why this refuses to settle down. Maybe if I turn up the heat…oh, mercy me! The burner isn’t even on.” Emmy chuckled and shook her head as she cranked the [...]

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Segment 2.3

Petra James staggered out past the unfinished, half-paved scrap of road the developers had hopefully pushed out towards the dunes before they got tripped up by the zoning regulations. She aimed for the most unloved portion of the beach, the stretch which lay at the foot of the eroded bluff under the long tangle of [...]

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Segment 2.2

The electric company’s repair truck took the curve at the beginning of the court a little too close, tipping slightly as it turned. In the truck’s shadow, Lyndsey Templeton swerved his bicycle up onto the sidewalk and stopped a moment. He snarled at the truck and pushed his tie back into place inside his jacket. [...]

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