February 15 Drabble Fest
February brings us back to twice-monthly drabble fests, and hope you will enjoy this one. This installment consists primarily of lines from twentieth century poetry with a few song lyrics thrown in for good measure. As always, write as much as you can and leave as much feedback as you can!
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They don't mean to but they do
They give you all the faults they had
And add some extra just for you. “You´re not going home?” her roommate asks and Joanna shakes her head wordlessly ( ... )
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i am glad she managed to inherit some of that determination as well, though.
wonderful work and interesting characterization. for some reason i really like that this all occurs in her room. i like to think that outside of there no one has any idea she's afraid.
:)
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I´m certain she inherited many good traits from both her parents :) I, too, think that no one knows :)
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It had to happen.
It happened earlier. Later.
Nearer. Farther off.
It happened, but not to you. The most important thing Blair Lewis had learned from the academy was not tactical maneuvers, not astrophysics, not how to fight with her bare hands. The most important thing she learned was how to die. She learned how to go without giving away Starfleet secrets. She learned how to prolong your life as long as you could, even in the direst of circumstances, and how to make split second decisions that may lead to your own death, but would save countless others. She learned it well, kept it at the forefront so she would never be surprised when faced with death ( ... )
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expendableHer mind belongs to her, whoever owns her body. That has always been Gaila´s philosophy ( ... )
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Care my father. When I had
No mother I embraced order.One arrives at the Academy with a single black duffel bag. She is the first in the dorm check-in line, and she watches from her sixth floor window as the other cadets emerge from cars, surrounded by parents and laden with overflowing cardboard boxes. She had finished unpacking more than an hour ago. The bottom most drawer of her bureau is half-full of civilian clothing; the top one filled with bras and underwear made from plain white cotton. Three uniforms hang in her closet, and under the bed are precisely three pairs of shoes: regulation boots, simple black pumps, and new white sneakers for running. They had cost more than half the credits in her meager account, but she likes to have the best. On the wall, she hangs a copy of her class schedule and a nav chart of this quadrant, both done in her immaculate hand ( ... )
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I love thais. It's perfect.
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19. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow kind, perhaps in the nook of a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayed anyoneThey were lying in his bed, the sweat cooling on their bodies, when he asked her ( ... )
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Also, I was so excited to see this when I came back from the gym. When I wrote the prompt, I was thinking, "I hope someone writes mirror verse fic for this." And then I thoguht, "I hope it's about Number One, and I hope it's by taraljc
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eta: also *blush* Thank you!
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