Anne McCaffrey has died at age 85 ( Read more... )

I'm currently in a LJ RP, and the character I play is Arhu from Diane Duane's Feline Wizards books, The Book of Night With Moon and To Visit The Queen. Arhu is one of said feline wizards, and part of a worldgate technician team that works in Grand Central Station. Did I mention that this is urban fantasy, and based in NYC ( Read more... )

It is now November ( Read more... )

A group of intelligent young women in England a while ago (early 1900s, later 1800s?) who want to be accepted among male scholars as equals. That isn't going to happen, so they create a pretend-society of supposedly-mute scholars who have been shut-ins for a while and are now emerging into the scholarly scene. As their fake "scholars" are mute and ( Read more... )

I dreamed that I apparently wandered into a science fiction writing club (or something like it) full of people from...well, one of them was from my old middle school, and I think one was from high school, and then there were several others, and the teacher/club leader was sort of Professor Lyons, but at the same time definitely wasn't. Especially ( Read more... )

He looked around at all of them: exhausted, hungry, labcoats dingy from days of wear, and knew that he looked no better than any of them.

"We've made it this far together," he said slowly. "If any of you have any issues with this project - with anything we've even talked about as the most remote possibility - I want you to know that you can leave ( Read more... )

Today was exhausting. Six flights and a deadhead (being a passenger) yesterday. Six flights today, including a two-hour delay in Harrisburg because Newark had a ground-stop program. Gods, I'm so happy I only have three flights tomorrow. And we get finished early. And then...two days off? I think. I can't wait ( Read more... )

So, it's been some time since I posted, and I wanted everyone to know that I'm still alive and doing well. It's just that everything I thought about posting would mostly have just been complaining about my job, and I think that everyone on my Flist has had to deal with more than enough of that. Especially considering that I haven't exactly written ( Read more... )

One day their agents will catch finally catch you. And in the dead of night, they will ask you how much you hate your country.

And in a broken whisper, you will reply, "Not enough."

Drabble meme, yoinked from kleenexcow.

Give Me:
Two characters.
A random word.
I Will Give You:
A short drabble.

Fandoms don't have to be my usual ficcing fandoms. If I know about it, I'll write it. Crossovers A-OK.