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CCM #6, CNC #18, FR #14 - one's own thoughts can fill one's head with ceaseless white noise.
Author: Thai
Challenge: Chocolate Chip Mint #6 - lazy, Cookies N Cream #18 - slip, Fudge Ripple #14 - urgency
Rating: PG-13
Story: blood princess
Timeline: Motherhood arc
Word Count: 654
( thirty-three. perhaps it is not always necessary to trust oneself, after all. ) -
CCM #28, SA #29, CNC #2 - angels weep limelight, and their blades are made of mended hope.
Author: Thai
Challenge: Chocolate Chip Mint #28 - lumpy, Sour Apple #29 - look, ma, no hands!, Cookies N Cream #2- fall
Rating: PG-13
Story: blood princess
Timeline: Motherhood arc
Word Count: 408
( thirty. blood shimmers under light. ) -
FR #15, CCM #2, SA #5 - wounds are reopened best by the blade that first cut them.
Author: Thai
Challenge: Fudge Ripple #15 - confidence, Chocolate Chip Mint #2 - fuzzy, Sour Apple #5 - "what's this button do?"
Rating: PG-13
Story: blood princess
Timeline: Motherhood arc
Word Count: 1880
( twenty-nine. the most skilled of musicians cannot play beautifully a score that is miswritten. ) -
Sour Apple #11 + fresh fruit - death is the most welcoming of hosts, night its genial house.
Author: Thai
Challenge: Sour Apple #11 - such a pity
Extra: Fresh Blueberries - Thou whose deep ways are in the sea, / Whose footsteps are not known, / To-night a world that turned from Thee / Is waiting - at Thy Throne. / The towering Babels that we raised / Where scoffing sophists brawl, / The little Antichrists we praised - / The night is on ( Read more... ) -
Chocolate Chip Mint #19, Sour Apple #28 - there are things that simply cannot be said.
Author: Thai
Challenge: Chocolate Chip Mint #19 - ambiguous, Sour Apple #28 - you took the words right out of my mouth
Rating: PG
Story: blood princess
Timeline: Motherhood arc
Word Count: 291
( twenty-four. the blades of apologies are hard to forge, but when rejected, their edges become keen. ) -
Chocolate #13, Fudge Ripple #19, Sour Apple #3 - even the best of rebuilt shells is empty.
Author: Thai
Challenge: Chocolate #13 - humility, Fudge Ripple #19 - domination, Sour Apple #3 - this won't hurt a bit
Rating: PG
Story: blood princess
Timeline: Motherhood arc
Word Count: 389
( twenty-three. for some mothers, love is a fleeting and invisible thing. ) -
Chocolate #15, Fudge Ripple #13, Sour Apple #23 - we all wear masks; we all are masks.
Author: Thai
Challenge: Chocolate #15 - passion, Fudge Ripple #13 - doubt, Sour Apple #23 - and the winner is...
Rating: PG-13
Story: blood princess
Timeline: Motherhood arc
Word Count: 1895
( twenty-one. no one can save that which is willingly destroyed. ) -
Chocolate Chip Mint #29, Sour Apple #1 - well-trained marionettes don't even see their strings.
Author: Thai
Challenge: Chocolate Chip Mint #29 - invisible, Sour Apple #1 - penny for your thoughts
Rating: PG
Story: blood princess
Timeline: Motherhood arc
Word Count: 367
( nineteen. there can be found in enemies, if not friendship, then a tenuous understanding. ) -
Sour Apple #10, Chocolate Chip Mint #26, Chocolate #9 - there's no such thing as happily-ever-after.
Author: Thai
Challenge: Chocolate Chip Mint #26 - battered, Sour Apple #10 - now you've done it, Chocolate #9 - resentment
Rating: G
Story: blood princess
Timeline: Motherhood arc
Extra: Pocky
Word Count: 82
( thirteen. we are all craftsmen of fear and love. ) -
Cookies 'N Cream #28, Fudge Ripple #18 - cut, lives float up like untethered balloons.
Author: Thai
Challenge: Cookies 'N Cream #28 - cry, Fudge Ripple #18 - sacrifice
Rating: R - bloody violence
Story: blood princess
Timeline: Motherhood arc
Word Count: 216
( nine. hatred will never stop to hear you weep. )