Week Five: Big Bang Writing Prompt

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Beta sign ups will begin on Wednesday (a little earlier than planned).  If you don't have a beta yet, please be on the look out for the beta post.

I hope the writing is going swimmingly, but in case it is not, we have our weekly prompt to help get things going.  If you are so inclined, share the results in the comments or link to your journal.

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Unworthy [Rated M for dark themes]

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Title: Unworthy

Unworthy [Rated M for dark themes] Part 2

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Part 2 [continued from above]

Her elder sister snorted. "You're so naive, Miwana. Dominion is necessary. Why even you and your beloved, gentle potion makers practice it." Her sister tapped a small, pale, soft hand on the top of a sealed container of buttered fingers. "Where do you suppose these came from? Do you think they fell out of the sky? Or perhaps they were grown on trees? No, I suppose you thought some altruistic volunteers gave them up. Just for you to play with."

"They were not... forcibly obtained," she replied but even she could hear the hollowness of her own tone. After all, how did she know these fingers had been taken from the already dead? Was she not just like her sister, parroting empty words from her teacher?

Iracebeth threw back her head and laughed. The sound of it bounced from buttress to buttress, making Mirana's head pound and her heart race and her fists clench. Until it was Too Much.

"Stop you horrid creature! You are not WORTHY of the healing arts. Why, I wouldn't stoop to using your skinny, pathetic,

Re: Unworthy [Rated M for dark themes] Part 2

[just_a_dram]

Oh heavens! This *is* dark. The imagery at the end is creepy, but I think it is an interesting end for the sisters, the notion that Mirana would make use of Iracebeth's fingers, which she had previously deemed unworthy. Dark and thought producing.

Of course, you know I love the idea of questionably attained fingers :)

"Dear jars of jubilance and flasks of foresight, what was the Mock Turtle teaching her sister?" The Mock Turtle is the tutor!?! That's marvelous, my dear. I love that little detail.

I think it fits the tone of the Champion's Hatter quite well, actually.

An Unconventional Use for a Hat

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I am linking to my flashback, because my ficlet has footnotes, which don't work in comments.

Title: An Unconventional Use for a Hat
Author: just_a_dram (Elizabeth)
Rated: T (for mild adult concepts)
Burtonverse
Flashback for fic titled "Merry Month of May"

http://just-a-dram.livejournal.com/9304.html