Links to My Writing

A link to every piece of writing posted to balloonhat, from most recent to oldest (under its heading). Some entries are F-locked (unfinished stuff, WIPs, revisions, etc.), but most (submitted LJ contest entries) aren't; unless noted otherwise, it's probably a raw (unedited) first draft. For your enjoyment and my embarrassment, I even included links to the stuff I posted here from back in '04. They've been marked as REALLY OLD WRITING, so please do not judge me for their quality. I didn't start writing again until late 2008.

As far as I know, all links lead to the appropriate entry. Let me know if that's not the case, if something broke, or if you found a gremlin creeping around that needs squashing.

brigits_flame Main Contest:

The Reluctant Concoctopus [Prompt: Cephalopod]
Alfred, Future Unseelie, and the Pyrite Pirate [Prompt: Character]
Alfred, Future Unseelie [Prompt: Introduction]
Only Flametenders Know How Much to Water Fire [Prompt: Bring the Fire]
Mortimer Lendilly [Prompt: Pound of Flesh]
The Luckiest Man [Prompts: Ultimate Sacrifice; In Reverse][WIP]
The Damned Fastest [Prompt: Necessary Evil]
Butterflies [Prompts: Good Omens; Begin piece with "There is/was/will be a spark."]
The Cloudweaver and the Astral Herdsman [Prompt: Mamihlapinatapei]
The Lady of Streamers [All Stars Prompt: Take the Cloth]
The Boar Hunter [Prompt: Steal a Kiss]
For You I Would [Prompt: Hero]
In That Heaven [Prompt: Jasmine, Forever] [WIP]
The Old Woman of Weylair [Prompt: Storyteller]
The First Week of Playing the Waiting Game [Prompt: Quixotic]
Monthly Husbands [Prompt: Luminary]
The Graven Forest [Prompt: Hustler] [WIP]
The Infected [Prompt:Gun]
Hands of Glory [Prompt: Hand] [WIP]
Mirandou's Teeth [Prompt: Teeth]
Sympathy for Doghobble [Prompt: Navel] [WIP]
Tenrebile at the King's Feet [Prompt: Instep]
Hunting with Bunting [Prompt: Gear]
Dragonslayer [Prompt: Parasite]
Automated Waterfowl Retrieval Specialists [Prompt: Oil & Vinegar]
Lovers' Bottle: A Fairy Tale About Perfume [Prompt: Happiness in a Bottle]
Earl Sharpwater, His Madame Majordomo, and Scratch [Prompt: Devil's in the Details]
The Buddhist Monk [Prompt: Unity]
Hellhound Race [Prompt: Begin with "There it goes..."]
Vernal Earth [Prompt: Pregnant]
The Fireproof Phoenix [Prompt: Eternal]
Silver Mud [Prompt: Mud] [WIP]
Delicious Shadows [Prompt: Shadows of the Self]
Weeping Goddess [Prompt: Tears of the God/dess]
Daniel and His Eudemon [Prompt: Happiness Is...?]
Arabella on the Red Dirt Road [Prompt: It hurts when I do this.] [Slight revision]
Ganesh the Mechanical Wrestler [Prompt: Heavy]

brigits_flame Mini Contest:

Honesty, Unfiltered [Prompt: Write exactly 100 words for "Malfunction". JFF entry.] [WIP]
A Font of Exes [Prompt: Write exactly 100 words for "Malfunction"]
Following the Announcement, Scrambled Chaos, Everyone Armed With Buckets And Bags [Prompt: Write exactly 100 words for "It's On"]
Headless Heart and Heartless Head [Prompt: Write exactly 100 words for "Missing Piece"] [WIP]
This Intense [Manual] Labor of Longing and Ache Makes My Heart Flutter [Prompt: Write exactly 100 words for "Manual"]
To Me [Prompt: Letter to your future self/selves.]
Bessarian's Worst Day Ever [Prompts: Babysitter, Rooftop, Hardboiled] [WIP]
Gerika: Beauty and the Beasts [Prompt: Rewrite a fairy tale or write the sequel to a children's book.]
Softly-Softly [Prompt: One of your dreams becomes real.]

Unfinished/Unsubmitted brigits_flame Entries:

Ten Petals From Asphodel's Life [Mini-Contest Prompt: Waterhouse's "Grecian Flower Market"]
Gnicholas [Suspect this was for BF but not sure for what prompt. Written March 2009.]
Three Elves For the Sisters Paoness [Prompt: Craft]
Be-Ribboned and The Bagman [Prompt: Hurricane, Shuffle]
Ma Came Out of the Wild [Prompt: Wild, Beguile]
Snakes & Birds Fight Over the Mortality of Men [Prompt: Renegade]
The Afterlife at Maiden's First Kiss [Prompt: Quixotic]
The Lord of Jubilees / The Courier's Dog / The Arrow of Destiny / Utiseti Goes Into the Sky [Prompts: Starting Over/Arrival/Destiny/Suicide]
The Key to Letty [Prompt: Key]
The Slaying of Five Dragons of Unhappy Matrimony [Prompt: China]

purestofprose Contest:

Itsaso's Face [Prompt: The Wind That Blows]
She Knows She Must See First Before She Can Speak [Prompt: Key]
Fox's Pearl [Prompt: Ball]
The Robot and the Mermaid [Prompt: Mythpunk]
Why She Wears Thick Woolly Socks and Gloves Year-Round [Prompt: Light]
Glazeblow [Prompt: Glass]

2011 Nanowrimo 100 500-word Drabbles Project

Velvetveldt Ring; Salt Cured; A Good Day At Work [Prompts: Paseo; crystal; John Doe.]
Them; Theinn the Garden Nymph; Lumen Limens [Prompts: How does it open; roots; limen.]

thebrenljidol Contest:

Second Season:
Magoi [Prompt: The Forbidden]
The Fires of Solrent [Prompt: Fire]
The Armadillo Wife [Prompt: Betrayal]
Illustrious Braulio [Prompt: Unconditional Love]
Stepmother Death [Prompt: The Destination]

First Season:
Emily Buries Her Feelings [Prompt: Betrayal]
Elaine's Qilin [Prompt: Blessings]
Linda's Chorus Sings Backstreet Boys [Prompt: Soundtrack of My Life]
Portrait of Walter Drefinel [Prompt: A painting.]
Bombshell Bomb [Prompt: Quicksand]
Beatriz and Her Mom [Prompt: Gratitude]
Lillian, Coyote, and the Moon [Prompt: Twilight] [Second draft]
Olivia Royston's Superpower [Prompt: Heroes]
Mrs. Corinna Fisher and Old Nicholas Scratch [Prompt: Utopia]
Maria in Old Limberlost House [Prompt: Haunted]
Hello Kitty Hannah [Prompt: Addiction]
Simone [Prompt: Reflections]
Nested Anna [Prompt: New Beginnings]

24-Hour Contest:

The Mistress Who Was Making Dominic Disappear [Prompt: A short blurb]
Marianne's Dolls, Granny Doneby and the Troll (unsubmitted) [Prompt: A short blurb]

Fragments:

Jody in Dry Telico
Spare Head
Birgetta
Tanesset the Ogress
Paralee Chimera's Curse

Everything Else:

They Get Out One Way Or Another [Prompt "Parrot" suggested by friend. Exactly 100 words.]
The Graven Forest [Originally written for BF's "Hustler" prompt, revised for a local writing contest.] [WIP]
The Shirt [More love for 100-word drabbles.]
Feliu's Fish [09 NaNo project I tried revisiting for class. Original NaNo start, second draft, third draft.]
Abigail / Write White / Longing to Eat Roses [Reworked first two to fit exactly 100 words, and finished third to be the same.] [Roses WIP]
The Oak Door & the Stained Glass Window [Written in '08]
Abigail With Yellow Boots [Prompt: The kid with yellow boots]
Write White on White [Prompt: Blank]
Kitchen Brigade Dream [A dream pulled from my dream journal.]
From the Private Diaries of Amelia in Dhulat Giraa [Draft I turned in for scholarship. Previous drafts here and here; original was a Mini Contest entry]
Late-night stream-of-consciousness exercise [WARNING! Seriously old writing!]
Down by the Bay [WARNING! Seriously old writing! Based on the children's song.] [Slight revision]
Leaving Messages [WARNING! Seriously old writing!]
The Gingerbread Witch and Baba Yaga [In-class exercises. WARNING! Seriously old writing!]
Rosalia Comes to Town [WARNING! Seriously old writing!]
Tagless/Wordless Dialogue [In-class exercises. WARNING! Seriously old writing!]
3 short, short poems [WARNING! Seriously old writing!]
Turkey for Hands [A droplet of poetry, of sorts. WARNING! Seriously old writing!]
Various stuff [In-class exercises. WARNING! Seriously old writing!]