I wanted to join in on the Shifting Sands challenge, both to keep supporting this community and to get my creative juices flowing. However, I'm not sure how well I actually fulfilled the requirements of the challenge. It relates to the "shifting sands of time", which is a nebulous connection at best, and thanks to part of the inspiration for this ( Read more... )

After bbcphile's amusing post, I realized that something I'd written in my "Windfalls" universe made it very easy to write a sort of follow-up. It's not an AU, but I think the spirit of the request was filled ( Read more... )

Most years I and the family attempt to send Christmas cards to family and friends.  For the past few years we've also created and sent our version of the dreaded "family newsletter."  Perhaps we are behind this year because of last month's windstorm and the eight days we were without power... hard to tell.

Anyway, I've decided that in place of ( Read more... )

A week or so after I posted my poetry meme half-drabbles, I was re-reading them only to discover to my immense embarrassment that I had gotten my alphabet mixed up, and three of them were out of order! So I felt compelled to write another set to fix the problem, even though that meant that the new Hornblower story got a...wildly difficult line to ( Read more... )

I finally gave ylla's poetry meme a shot. You can read all my offerings here, but I figured I'd follow her example and post my Hornblower based ones (yes, I wound up doing two) over here.

( These turned out way less angsty than expected... )

Mentioned the other day that I'm back into the third Stone Island Sea Story... tentatively titled Darnahsian Pirates.  Anyway, finished up chapter seven and thought I'd share it.  It's still a bit rough, especially the recent part.  I've bolded the beginning of what I've just written.  I can't say for sure, but there just might be some spoilers in ( Read more... )

I've been trying the meme with the five fandoms and the five lines of poetry, and here's the Hornblower result (I also have three more Age of Sail ones and one that really isn't.)

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Hornblower
(Indignant-that the Joy was come-)He can see the men glancing at him, hear them whispering together, feel the undercurrent of excitement. Even Bush, who ( Read more... )

Title Second to my Last
Author Eglantine_br

Rating G

“There you are, Archie,” Horatio said. “Just--just stay there, all right?.”

Foolish to say this, Archie was clearly too ill to go anywhere. He was small in the narrow bed, huddled and shivering with heat. He clenched his mouth at the touch of the cool cloth, enduring it like a punishment.

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With the esteemed "captain," anteros_lmc of the following_sea community celebrating her birthday, I thought I'd post an excerpt from Chapter Four of the third Stone Island Sea Story.  This is roughly the first third of the chapter, tentatively entitled "A Death." (The working title of the book is Darnahsian Pirates: A Third Stone Island Sea Story.  Darnahsian comes from ( Read more... )

Title: Frustration ( Read more... )