Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune --- Aristotle

( Personal Declaration )

Pick a verb from this list of 'powerful verbs', and write a drabble around it and your character.

Weep

They leaned against the wall of the shed, the small window out to the park between them.   "I can't be the one to tell you" what to choose, Cole had said.    She glanced around them, at the landscape maintenance equipment neatly stacked and coiled, ( Read more... )

Tell us about a time you backed a winner; and a time you backed a loser.

Loser:

( at second exposure )

A List of Prue's Dearly Departed

Andy, her high school sweetheart, best friend, mortal love -- I'll miss our talks, and how he was one of the most non-judgmental yet dependable people in my life.  I'll miss him.
Penny, "Grams", who raised her -- I'll miss her advice, even the maddening stuff.  Her sayings.  The fact that good or bad, it was easy to ( Read more... )

100 words on "treat".

She'd pretty much always say she needed to study with a friend, on those rare afternoons when ninth grader Piper wasn't completely wringing her hands about the transition to Baker or Phoebe wasn't chattering on about her barely pubescent social circle.   On those afternoons, Grams would smile and nod her approval, in a way Prue ( Read more... )

We probably had a similar question to this back when we did music for Saturday prompts, but that was a while ago, so!

Does your character have a 'theme song', either ICly (chosen by them) or OOCly (by you)? Some song that they/you feel just sums up their life and struggles and personality? If so.... share it! Feel free to elaborate on why it fits ( Read more... )

Enemies. We all have them. Those loathsome, slimy, mendacious, scumbags that exist to make our lives difficult-- or to make us look good by comparison. Let's give the Devil his due. Make a list of your worst enemy's good traits.

For the Source

-adherence to ceremony/power of ritual
-patience 
-attention to detail
-willingness to delegate and receive ( Read more... )

"Here." She dropped the folded sports section on top of his desk. "How you spent almost a century on the surface without becoming even a bit familiar with human sports is beyond me, but that's not the point."

He looked up at her, closed the thick leather bound book, and got to his feet.  "Got all that from chit-chat with the doorman, did you?" The ( Read more... )

( Barriers and Bridges )

Someone who watches out, who does her duty, who gives (nearly) everything for others.  The one who thinks ahead. Rational, but deeply caring.  The one determined to keep up appearances, to keep her feelings in check. Determined in general.  The one who steps in and steps up.  The one who (yeah, I know) did give up a lot of her childhood for them ( Read more... )