Caryl, AU.  Mandrea is a secondary ship.  When Carol ends up in the small town of Liberty with her daughter, she finds herself among a crowd of people that seem like they might not be the most desirable bunch.  As an outsider herself, she soon discovers that she can’t judge a book by its cover and sometimes the most unlikely of people can become the closest family.    Rated for future chapters.

McReedus fic.

Norman and Melissa have to work hard to keep their little secrets while living so much in the public eye.  

(I'm always bad at summaries...you know this...)

"Left or right, dumbass. Merle’s voice growls in his head. Always so fuckin’ slow. Jesus. To his left, the trees roll out, an endless echo of each other. To his right, the same; but a bush of white flowers is growing at the base of a cedar a little way further, the petals wide, the centres butter yellow, and so he chooses right, because he needs a sign and this is it." 

Sometimes, even a broken world brings you something perfect. 

Daryl is temporary librarian at an exclusive private college in Georgia. Carol is a professor of English Literature at the same college, with a daughter in her second year of study. 

30 MAY--no chapter today, I'm sorry--I meant to get one up but writing has proved difficult the last two days. Tomorrow morning I am having eye surgery, and will likely struggle with a screen for a bit. Please know I'll be using all available eye energy to write ;) I'll update as soon as I can.

"Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain." (Isaiah 40:4)

Single parenthood to a traumatised child, a lingering wrist injury, and a nerve-wracking return to orchestra life - Carol isn't sure she's ready to cope with any of it, especially when someone she hoped was gone from her life makes a re-entry; but she finds unexpected solace in the passageways of the concert hall, in the person of a reticent artist completing a carving across the back of the stage.