24th December - Family

Glassed-in portraits winked and flashed in the darkness of the room, candles flickering in draughts that came from no door. Tyki paced along one wall, staring up into the infinite spaces above, seeing the faces of his previous incarnations stare back with unsettling, implacable smiles. He mirrored their grins, teeth flashing ( Read more... )

13th December - Carol “Triiick ooor treeeeat...” Cell Roron whined over his shoulder, rattling the bars with a moan.Tyki flicked the card-cell with his finger, sending the golem tumbling over itself. “Wrong festival.” Road giggled as it fell into a snow bank, poking it with Lero till it squealed and shivered in the cold. “Road.” The Earl smiled ( Read more... )

5th December - Angels

Ease didn't go to church. His companions felt uneasy in them, came for the charity and left soon after, begged outside their gates and sometimes slept in their outhouses, but they were never comfortable there and moved on soon after. But he remembered bits and pieces from the times he was there, strains of music, little phrases ( Read more... )

1st December - Present/GiftToy trains steamed and chugged their way around a room filled with chattering children, pointing and staring at the elaborate pathways, lined with toys of every size and description. Wooden soldiers, arms outstretched and carefully regimented directed harassed parents into the obsequious care of the shop assistants, ( Read more... )

I'm ashamed at the length of the break I took from writing again. It started to scare me that I would never go back. Muchos sadface. But I batted away the constraints of real life to write a bumper edition of Five Minute Prompts, all below the cut. Words graciously provided by Collins Gem Pocket Dictionary. Oh you battered, blue, little bastard, I' ( Read more... )

Word prompts come from dictionary.com's archive of Words-Of-The-Day, and they're all completed in five minutes or less. Except one. I cheated and gave it six minutes because I liked it. All D.Gray Man again.

Conversation:

“If we're going to work together we should at least try to get along.” The man beside him said nothing, staring out at the ( Read more... )

Decided to try a writing exercise or two, because I'm struggling with the High Seas prompts I've been working on. Word prompts come from dictionary.com's archive of Words-Of-The-Day. I started off doing them as 60-second prompts but got progressively more carried away... So they're all 2-5 minutes worth of writing. Enjoy, comment, la la, have a cup ( Read more... )

The King of Hearts - A Tyki/Allen One-Shot

Allen felt like he had been walking for hours, with no idea where he was, or where he was going. The path behind and ahead of him was shrouded with a sweet-smelling smoke, like burning flowers, that reduced his vision to a mere metre or so in front of and behind him. If he slowed at all, it closed in like a ( Read more... )