Title: Taking Sin, Giving Blood
Rating: PG
Word Count: 859
Summary: Retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story, from the point of view of a village sin-eater.

( To be so hated and shunned in the village for the job you’ve given me, the job you all require of me, and then to be alone with such a beauty! )

Title: Keep Me Alive
Rating: PG
Length: 1237 words
Summary: A random free write, edited for grammar, since I haven't written in ages. Basically a post-apocalyptic group try to make their way north to a group of survivors. (Fact: I am obsessed with post-apocalyptic stuff. Also time travel, but you don't have to worry about that today.)

( I was not made for the world I ended up in. )

Title: Buck Starstream: Renaissance Man
Rating: PG for some violence
Length: 1598 words
Summary: Grace Hawthorne is sent by her publishing house to visit a new author they are interested in, but soon realizes she should have done a bit of homework on the man first.

( I was born on a stormy, wind swept field moments after my father had safely landed the plane he and my mother were piloting to Antigua, which had experienced engine failure after being struck by lightening. You don’t appear to be writing any of this down. )

Title: Melt Molten
Rating: PG
Length: 623
Summary: We either mourn or we don't. It makes no difference: we're still losing something.

“Father’s dead.”

I put a finger on the page to remind myself which sentence I had just finished and glanced up at Georgia. She was staring down at the contents of a torn envelope with her pale brow wrinkled, her clear ( Read more... )

Title: Death, Inc.
Rating: PG
Length: 1267
Summary: Being an intern is a tough gig. Being an intern for Death is downright exhausting.

As Quintal (a mere nobody, you might say) walked past the office door, he couldn't help but to glance inside and marvel at it. Compared to the drafty, stone-walled area where everyone else’s cubicles sat in neat little ( Read more... )

"What?" Alice said, absentmindedly. The city rushed by, just outside the window, all glitter and glowing lamps. A moment later, the words hit her and she reached into her bag, pulling out a small compact and checking her reflection. A flash of dark hair, heavy jewels, and finally: scarlet, a small cut right along her jaw line. "It's these damn ( Read more... )

Title: Ends of the Earth
Rating: PG
Length: 1444 words; One Shot
Summary: After the witch discovers that she's been letting a prince in the tower, she sends a pregnant Rapunzel off to the middle of nowhere. But what becomes of her and her children, and the newly blinded prince? [Note: I really don't like this piece anymore but I wanted to put ( Read more... )