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When your heart has expired....
It was supposed to be a surprise. Collins had known that Valentine's would be a difficult day for Mimi, and decided that taking his pretty girl out for an evening would be just the thing to do ( Read more... ) -
Valentine's Day - 2001
The gift is a simple one, really, and neither Angel nor Collins has ever been very invested in Free Candy For Adults Day, as Angel had so quaintly put it.
I don't need a special day to tell you that I love you, is how the card begins, the picture showing two silhouettes blending into one image, But I'll never pass up a chance. -
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Remember, remember the Fifth of November
The gunpowder treason and plot
I know of no reason
why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.He doesn't need an excuse to raise hell ( Read more... ) -
OOI: Nightmares
He tosses and turns, throwing off blankets when he gets too hot, pulling them back on when he gets too cold.
He's sweating, but finding no relief.
The dark marks on his skin might be bruises. He's not looking at them closely.
And he's dreaming.
I'm dying.
He looks around.
Where's Angel?
Where you are is home. Words spoken a lifetime before ( Read more... ) -
Retroactive OOMs
Following this.
1992 -
There was a broken chopstick in his pants pocket. That beyond anything made Collins believe that the previous night hadn't been a hallucination or dream. None of mine have ever been that great before.He hadn't gotten an address from Angel. He knew he was at Juilliard, but it wasn't likely he could get any information. He ( Read more... ) -
OOM: Harlem
"Can you grab that bowl from the top shelf, Tom ( Read more... ) -
An Anniversary
Three years to the day of being mugged and beaten.
How do you stay on your feet when on every street it's trick or treat, and tonight it's trick?
Three years to the day of Angel finding him.
You okay, honey?
The year he'd spent outside of the bar, without him, barely registers in his mind.
I can't believe he's gone....Instead, he listens to him ( Read more... ) -
World AIDS Day
Actual Reality!
Act Up!
Fight AIDS!Some people (correctly) saw that as his war cry. A never ending fight for people to stop halting their congnitive processes at the boundaries of their comfort zones ( Read more... ) -
A Day in Actual Reality
It is a relatively….and I mean relatively quiet day in Actual Reality. Sometimes Collins just likes sitting at a booth in his time off and people watching. So many fans come through here that know about Mark’s film that sometimes he just likes seeing their reactions. He sits at the booth in front of the wall with newspaper as its wallpaper. On top ( Read more... ) -
Collins OOM: Actual Reality: Part 1
When I dream
On my own
I'm alone but I ain't lonely
For a dreamer night's the only time of day
When the city's finally sleepin'
All my thoughts begin to stray
And I'm on the train that's bound for Santa Fe
Collins is on the plane. He used the ticket that Mark gave him to head to where the restaurant was located. He was heading to Albuquerque and ( Read more... )