2 ficlets, no challenge
Title: Cities Under Crowns Of Snow
Summary: There is the smell of copper and regret in the air.
Characters/Pairings: Godric/Salazar
Genre: Muggle AU, angst
Beta: N/A
Rating/Warnings: PG; non-graphic violence / None
Medium: Ficlet
Word Count: 413
Author's Notes: For Amy/etacanis's prompt: "But tell me you love this, tell me you're not miserable." Inspired by that and the poem it belongs to, 'Seaside Improvisation' by Richard Siken.
A stone on the path means the tea's not ready, a stone in the hand means somebody's angry, the stone inside you still hasn't hit bottom. @ badglue
Title: Lullaby
Summary: The thing about dying is that you have to let go of a lot of things.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: Remus(/Tonks)
Genre: Gen, angst
Beta: N/A
Rating/Warnings: G / Canon character death
Medium: Ficlet
Word Count: 128
Author's Notes: For the SQ prompt table. Prompt used was 'stark'.
The thing about death is that it's not unlike life.
Good moments flicker past like frames on a movie screen, while bad memories stick like the decade-old glue in between two photographs in an album.
Remus remembers, very quickly, too quickly, the sound of laughter in an abandoned Divination classroom, the comical look on the face of the Professor as Sirius and James scamper off. Other things linger, such as the feeling of seeing the full moon, the taste of blood, the crack of bones.
The thing about dying is that you have to let go of a lot of things, but Remus manages to hold on to the just-right smell of Dora's hair just before everything is gone and all is left is the dark.
Nadia/Ravenclaw/18 points
Summary: There is the smell of copper and regret in the air.
Characters/Pairings: Godric/Salazar
Genre: Muggle AU, angst
Beta: N/A
Rating/Warnings: PG; non-graphic violence / None
Medium: Ficlet
Word Count: 413
Author's Notes: For Amy/etacanis's prompt: "But tell me you love this, tell me you're not miserable." Inspired by that and the poem it belongs to, 'Seaside Improvisation' by Richard Siken.
A stone on the path means the tea's not ready, a stone in the hand means somebody's angry, the stone inside you still hasn't hit bottom. @ badglue
Title: Lullaby
Summary: The thing about dying is that you have to let go of a lot of things.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: Remus(/Tonks)
Genre: Gen, angst
Beta: N/A
Rating/Warnings: G / Canon character death
Medium: Ficlet
Word Count: 128
Author's Notes: For the SQ prompt table. Prompt used was 'stark'.
The thing about death is that it's not unlike life.
Good moments flicker past like frames on a movie screen, while bad memories stick like the decade-old glue in between two photographs in an album.
Remus remembers, very quickly, too quickly, the sound of laughter in an abandoned Divination classroom, the comical look on the face of the Professor as Sirius and James scamper off. Other things linger, such as the feeling of seeing the full moon, the taste of blood, the crack of bones.
The thing about dying is that you have to let go of a lot of things, but Remus manages to hold on to the just-right smell of Dora's hair just before everything is gone and all is left is the dark.
Nadia/Ravenclaw/18 points