NOTE: This is in intersection with tsuki_no_bara. I think it works a little better if you read her entry first.With shaking hands, and a little prayer, Aytak Ransdottr made fast the final knots ( Read more... )

( So many of these souls are born into a human cesspool - some quite literally )

Don’t ask me to play it; don’t even go there. I’ll do anything by Billy Joel - "Uptown Girl," “Just the Way You Are,” “My Life,” “Only the Good Die Young” - that last one’s a crowd-pleaser. But the song that describes what I’m doing right now? How cheesy. And the song’s a little depressing, anyway.

When you’ve been tickling the ivories at the Ever ( Read more... )

( A story of the Twin Glass Cities, occuring in neither )

NOTE: This was part of a three-person collaboration for LJ Idol, Week 23. My topic was "No man is a hero to his valet." The concept is an event from the points of view of three separated brothers. Calling ourselves The League of LJI Gentlemen, we called our entries collectively The Battle of Bradbury Park. Fellow writers were ravenshrinkery ( his entry) and talonkarrde88 ( his ( Read more... )

NOTE: This was my LJ Idol "intersection" entry for Season 7, Week 22 (Topic: Playing the Odds), collaborating with beeker121. We each wrote our own entries, with some cross-editing and coordination of plot points. Her entry is here, and these can be read in any order. This story, on its own, will also appear in the book "Idol Musings."

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The old man ( Read more... )

IMPORTANT NOTE: This was my LJ Idol "intersection" entry for Season 7, Week 21 (Open Topic), collaborating with roina_arwen. We each wrote our own entries, with some cross-editing and coordination of plot points. If reading both parts, read her entry first.
(Further note: some mature language below)

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"Why is this night different from all the other ( Read more... )