LJ Idol Week Five: Afterthought

“Rori…” I said his name in my sleep.

The face of the huge nigh-black dragon drifted through my half-sleeping mind, full of fangs, soundlessly roaring at me. And then it changed, shifting to the human-looking face, oddly ethereal and not un-lovely, concerned black eyes looking down at me as I woke. His lips moved, ( Read more... )

“LOVE!” I swept into the Brown‘s door, cloak and still-damp gown flowing, flushed and heated from my stalking walk home. My eyes were flashing, and I was still struggling to wrap my head around what had just happened during my bath. If anyone knew who that had been, it would be the Brown. He handled most of the entries into the Inn; he must know ( Read more... )

( Cut for your eyes, not (as much) for triggers this time. )

( Deconstructed. Warning for possible triggers. )

I sat, looking across my desk at my twin sister. We were speaking of the recent betrayal in the family…had just found out that the contamination to the nodes underneath her home, and mine, was ordered by one who had been loved as family by us. I watched the gathering folk some fifty-odd feet behind her, all dressed in the same familiar black ( Read more... )

Cool water slipped off my fingers, the scents of many flowers and herbs permeated the air, the sweeping trees rained their falling blossoms on the water and my hair. I smiled, and waded deeper into the cool pool I sought solitude in. This place was healing to me, welcoming after the trial I had just faced. I was clad in nothing more than a light ( Read more... )

*This will be crossposted to the system journal ( Read more... )

"Of course some folks end up finding this to be extremely difficult."

I quote Gary, from the week 0 topic post. He may not really know how apt this statement really is.

I am, as a rule, a private, paranoid woman of paradoxes. I am so used to condemnation, discrimination, and betrayal that the idea of a public post available to people with a mere ( Read more... )

Well, I may have gone insane, because in my most depressive time of the year in the middle of a paradigm shift I have decided that I will be attempting my first season in LJ Idol.

If I do not complete it, so be it, at least I can say that I've given it a go and have some good pieces of writing to show for it.

Here goes nothing.