003. Fearlessness
232. Is there a situation when it is appropriate to be unkind?

"Oh aren't you pretty?" Her hand reaches out and her fingers trail across the soft fur of the animal in front of her. It bears its teeth and growls at her. She laughs, a soft trickle like a broken waterfall and smoothes her hand down its muzzle. "Naughty puppy. Don't ( Read more... )

Introduction for theatrical_muse

Every story has a beginning and an end. Few stories have the beginning. We can't all be the first, after all.

So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
Enter Lilith, stage right; she's kind of a big deal. Before Eve, there was Lilith. A beautiful ( Read more... )

508. Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love. -- Randy K. Milholland

This body is so much prettier than the others. And grown up. It's something she almost can't get over, something she'd almost forgotten. All the same, it's hers now and she's beginning to remember, memories slipping out of thick cotton ( Read more... )

231. Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live. -- Haruki Murakami

It's cold, this new body, but without Ruby it'd have be long since dead and when she steps into it she can feel the heat radiate out around her, stretching and breathing to her fingertips and toes, the power clinging just underneath her skin ( Read more... )

007. Pride

You're a naughty girl. You know. No one ever tells you though, because everyone loves you. Just like you tell them to. They love you because you were the first, made from the same clay as Adam. You were one of God's creations on the sixth day -- their first, his first, the first. And they love you for it ( Read more... )