artist: jorby alano (rakugaking)

( lady )

author: claudia (iseepurplehair)
email: midorikumori [at] gmail.com

( For my late friend Sameritan Grace, for whom I am writing this essay, I had nothing but the deepest respect. )

author: xahra99 (xahra99)
email: xahra99 [at] yahoo.com

'And there were strange prodigies in that place-men with the heads of animals, and animals that spoke like men, and marvelous mechanical wonders that counterfeited life, and sang, or moved, when they were spoken to.'

Ramadan, Neil Gaiman

( 'All right,' said Thomas. 'This is the last time we build anything this big.' )

author: flamebyrd (flamebyrd)
email: flamebyrd [at] gmail.com

artist: llyse (llyse)
email: xanedrian [at] gmail.com

( 'So you say you worked with Samuel Clayton Mills?' )

author: shinju yuri (shinju_yuri)

( Walter closed the door, leaned against it, and then said, 'Is there any reason why there's a large man who looks very angry in the parlor?' )

author: chris (aefallen)
email: edgeofdawn [at] gmail.com

artist: susie oh (susieoh)
email: susie000 [at] gmail.com

( At the turn of the century, a man from Lancashire invented what he called the right-hand rule, a principle for determining the result of a meeting of two forces so simple that you could remember it with nothing but your right hand. )