1967...“…and this is a dump truck, Lainy. See? This part, you lift it up and WOOSH all the dirt pours out into a big pile and then you drive over it. See?” Five year old Wesley Jansen was balanced on the arm of a chair, leaning over the side of his sister’s bassinet excitedly talking to her about little boy nonsense and make believe ( Read more... )

What is/are the first song(s) you remember hearing? Share your first musical experiences with us!The first song I remember, really remember by tune and misunderstood little girl nonsense lyrics? That's easy. Norman Greenbaum. Spirit in the Sky. Nineteen-seventy, and that would put me at about three years old and my brother woulda been about eight ( Read more... )

Take a few steps back, take a left instead of a right, and walk down the road not traveled in your past.“Hey, darlin’?” Laine ducked her head through the double doors of the ‘staff only’ area in Dr. Anderson’s veterinarian practice, a manila file folder in one hand and a tri-colored invoice in the other. “You think you can spare a minute there and ( Read more... )

The Powers that Be (whomever they may be in your 'verse) have decreed that you must lose all your memories. You are allowed to keep two memories, which are they?Wesley. She remembered Wes. The feel of his strong arms holding her, the hot dry feel of his skin-he never used lotion, said it was girly shit and just because he liked men didn’t mean he ( Read more... )

"Well, I've always thought the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. Sometimes I lean one way and sometimes I lean the other." - Hud

“Oh, come on Lainy. Quit being a pain in the ass, you can pass for twenty-one.” Jack Anderson was leaning against the door of his pickup truck, trying to get his seventeen year old girlfriend to get ( Read more... )

[Filtered to Anrai and the rest of the MacEibhirs ( Read more... )

The view before her was awe-inspiring even at eighteen. Wide-open and half wild fields of green dotted and bordered with tall trees of varying evergreen and deciduous species. Mountains not too far off in the distance and their rocky foothills giving way to large boulders and craggy chucks of granite that littered the expanse of land completed the ( Read more... )

ooc: This is set much earlier in the year, very near the beginning of Laine and Anraí's relationship. Much of this evolved from two AIM conversations with thehorseman's mun, the second half of this directly influenced by an RP log between the characters. Many thanks to the fabulous writer than lets me play with (and abuse) Anraí.

It’s All Over NowShe’d been ( Read more... )

What kind of scared are we talkin’ about here? There are lots of different types of fear a body experiences. Fear of change, fear of the unknown, failure, loss…I could name you a different person for each one of those, all of them people I love. I don’t know what that says about me, if anythin’. Maybe they scare me because I love them, I let them ( Read more... )

( There are some conversations little sisters just have to have with their big brothers... )