It's humid here. Humid and dense and full of rustling noises that make her jump. She swishes a tail slowly, as she walks. She knows there are predators around, but she hasn't eaten in days, and the specific tree that is her favourite seems to be getting scarcer. So she moves through the jungle trying not to make too much noise, trying not to draw ( Read more... )

"Get lost, retard!"

He could try to explain to them that he wasn't a retard. That that word had a specific meaning that did not, in fact, apply to him. But they were eleven year old boys, and they didn't care. In fact, it would only make it worse. At least when they called him "swot" or "boff" it was sort of close to the truth.

Something in the ( Read more... )

He waited, taut, behind a tree at the edge of the meadow, listening, listening. Carefully. His being throbbed with tension, but he dare not move. He knew they were close, he could feel them, their eyes, their teeth. But he couldn't hear a thing ( Read more... )

So, I've heard there's this LJ Idol thing. Reckon I'll give it a whirl.