fragmented fictions & one step closer to being a MASTER
Me and my [ LUXRAY ]
are gonna be the very best!
Thanks
halcyon_queenfor my cute little (well, they're not very little, are they?) Luxray!!
I feel like I need to add something to this post to give it substance...
The prompts for this sentence-set were randomly selected from dA's 100 theme's challange prompt set.
2. Love
For as long as they’ve lived, and as long as they will love, Francis is sure that love is the one thing none of them will ever come to understand.
3. Light
It was bold, brilliant, and flashed so white it was like 1,000 watt lights; it was no wonder why Alfred’s brilliant smile could lighten anyone’s face.
4. Dark
As a child, he’d found nothing more terrifying than being alone in his dark, dark bedroom; the centuries might have faded away, but the child’s voice in the back of his mind still cried as he curled into his cold, cold bed.
5. Rot
War had always been an egregious crime against humanity, but never so much in Kiku’s eyes as when he beheld the charred, rotting, stinking flesh that was once Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
6. Break
No one knew better that Ivan the truth about just how frail humans were; all it took were some words and maybe some smacks and then people were putty in his arms.
7. Heaven
There was no heaven for them, this much they’d already figured; if it not for the fact that they were ageless, and lived as long as their nations, then because of all the sins they unleashed upon the Earth.
8. Away
It was instinctive by this point; when someone larger and stronger than him showed up, Italy fled; never again did he want to be stepped on and walked all over, and a reputation was worth nothing to him, anyways.
9. Cut
Matthew never wanted to get to the point where he’d be desperate for attention, and tried to repeat in his head the mantra that someone out there had to know who he was; not only did he fail, but he failed in the ugliest way, and his scarred wrists did nothing to bring their eyes to him, anyways.
10. Breathe
Germany was always moving so quickly, trying to do great things, that he never realized he didn’t know how to breath until Feliciano knocked his breath away and taught him how to get it back.
11. Memory
It was the strangest thing, the way Francis’ memories worked; years and decades would blend together into colorful messes, but then there were moments, precious seconds for which he could remember every sound, scent, and sight perfectly.
12. Insanity
Ivan knew he was insane; he also knew that he was too far along to do anything but embrace in and listen to the whispers that laughed in his head.
13. Misfortune
When Arthur rushed out of his “magic” room, hacking up a lung and with soot covering his face, Alfred was left laughing, wondering if his elder would ever get it right.
14. Smile
Antonio was not an idiot, even if others (like Lovino) chose to believe he was; he knew what pain was, what it really felt like, and he knew that unless you smiled through it you’d fall into despair.
15. Silence
The hardest part of being locked up in Ivan’s house, Elizaveta mused as she cried herself to sleep, was that she could not hear the melodious tunes her beloved was playing for her.
16. Spit
Ludwig had always wondered about Gilbert’s mental state, but never so much as when he saw the ex-nation and his older brother shooting spitballs at passersby with the micro-nation Sealand’s help.
17. Blood
There was a point in time when Im Yong Soo would sink into his bed each night and bury his face into his pillow, willing of the scent and sight of blood to be scrubbed our of his memory with every one of his muffled sobs.
18. Under
It was a feeling that none of the older, more matured nations was ever going to forget, the sensation of warmth in the pit of their stomachs brought on by having a small child growing under their wing.
19. Gray
‘Shades of Gray’ has never so nicely fit another being as it had Alfred Jones; if a nation was truly made up of everything his people were, then he was the most complex and diverse of them all.
20. Fortitude
Sadiq’s eyes narrowed behind his mask as his mouth curled into a smirk; he’d shown them all for underestimating him, hadn’t he?
21. War
In all of Wang Yao’s years of life, and that was a greater number than one could even fathom, nothing had ever made his stomach lurch so violently as the waging of war.
22. Mother
Heracles knew that he was lucky, one of the luckiest of all the nations, because his land was still full of his mother’s legacy; but the one thing he valued the most in the world was not the physical land she left him, but the teachings and memories and especially the warm hugs that were still imprinted in his mind and on his heart.
23. Distasteful
Seychelles wrinkled her nose in disgust as she slammed the door to the Student Council room behind her forcefully; honestly, who’d been the one to allow that prissy, bushy eyebrowed, domineering, annoying thing to be President?
24. Want
Rome had been great; he’d had everything that a man could possibly ever want- so then, why was it that he was never more content with himself than he’d been in the last moments, after his Empire had fallen, with only tiny Feliciano and Lovino in his grasp to call his?