This challenge is 100-1,000 words about Mal ( Read more... )

So quiet on her feet her silence courted him. The darkness had no rule over his soul when she was present. Even in shadow her light illumed the dark fractured planes of his benighted soul. She knew and he accepted that it was the way things were between them. Right now he was trapped by her eyes, so wide and full and knowing. Feelings ( Read more... )

He supposed he should not have been surprised that the boy had seen through him but Merciful Father no one should have suffered enough in life to have that much savvy. The Shepherd shook his head slightly and reminded himself that he really should stop thinking of Serenity's Captain as a boy. In every respect Malcolm Reynolds was a man pure and ( Read more... )

(Challenge the 8th: LOVE. Redux ( Read more... )

Gorram *gos se*. Like they say, "it's only the depth that varies" but why did I have to be standing up to my ruttin' neck in it? 'Cause of the *churen* Cap, that's why. I tried not to glare too much but anger did a thing to a man's insides that no amount of brain power stopped from showing on his face. They knew I was crazy mad but for some ( Read more... )

Space. A spinning continuum that mocked me with a darkness the equal of my soul. Amused even in death I could not help reliving the moment because in the end the moments are all we have. I thought I had been so smart. So clever. Tracked my mark with all the skill of my profession. Aided and abetted by a mind ( Read more... )