They're beginning to take over! Ack! ;)

"You do have a house other than this, don't you ( Read more... )

Just a little something, tied to an old something and adapting it a bit.
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When Elise MacFarlane went to her high school five-year reunion, no one remembered her except the boy who used to copy her answers on math quizzes. Elise MacFarlane had worked out the secret to invisibilty in junior high, and apparently it had worked very well. It wasn't a matter of chemicals, she had discovered; H.G. Wells had it all wrong. The ( Read more... )

"Gambling is a sin," he said. It was no condemnation, but a statement of fact.
"I know," she said, "But I try to do good. I mean, I will win money from rich men and lose it to poor men, when I can. And I did win all that money to buy the pony from the monks, and paid too much." He nodded, remembering the story. "I just cannot help it. My fingers ( Read more... )

trying to think of something to write and just nothing coherent is coming. So whatever follows will probably be awful. just so you know. ( oh, dear. )

(nb: this works better if you do a high little british girl voice for the girl. The man's accent is irrelevant)

"Are they any good?" A little girl's voice out of nowhere. Startled him. She was standing beside him, a very serious, thoughful expression on her face.

"What?" He was so confused.

"The wages of sin. Are they any decent wages?" She looked at ( Read more... )

M1:What's your name?
W:Judith.
M1: (incredulous) Judith?
M2: Is that your given name?
W: No.
M1: So it isn't your name.
W: It is a name. And it has been mine more than once.

Shorter stories come sometimes when I'm trying to occupy myself when I'm bored. Especially when I'm working by myself. So, this is one of those. Um, it's sort of long. ( the dress )

[Dan is a character from the story I'm writing with shadow_dancers. At this point, she's been out of school for a few months. It's winter. Corwyn is the guild head of the Guild of the Rose in the town. Think King of Thieves, only a bit more beuacracy and not just thieves. No descs yet, just text ( Read more... )