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[Realm of the Muse 1.91.3] Response
Wake up...roll over...what is the first thing you touch?Maria turned sharply, her eyes opening to half-mast in the dark hour of night. The bad dream had shifted her to abrupt consciousness, and her fingers searched for the timepiece she had tucked into her pillowcase. It glowed with muted blue illumination, and she smiled drowsily as the face ( Read more... ) -
[Realm of the Muse 1.87.4] Response
Hmmm…what’s that in your Christmas stocking?The house on Bannerman Road was perfectly ensconced in a light blanket of snow, but the air inside the Jackson house was a comfortable confluence of artificially generated heat, and winter chill naturally seeping in through infinitesimal slits in windows and doors. As such, Maria had simply slipped on her ( Read more... ) -
OOM [Bannerman Road: Jackson Residence]
Visits from her mother have been steadily growing more infrequent. Maria is divided between a pervading sense of discontent and a guilty feeling of relief. She loves her mother, and often enjoys her presence, but the vitriol that tends to arise between her parents is sometimes not worth the visit at all. For her dad's sake, she is beginning to wish ( Read more... ) -
[Realm of the Muse 1.77.1] Response
ooc: part I of possibly other little one-offs in my effort to soothe my pup, who's hurting after the events of the latest SJA episode. ahem. angst ahoy!
Nothing ever lasts forever.The photograph is glossy, still unblemished by fingerprints or age, and as she holds it against the wall to catch a stray beam of light, it shines against her eyes such ( Read more... ) -
[Realm of the Muse 1.82.2] Response
I knew I was in trouble when...
I knew I was in trouble when suddenly the only sound I could hear was the fast pumping of my heart in my ears. My head almost hurt with the intensity of it, and I tried to catch my breath as I crouched into a darkened corner, hoping this was the best spot to avoid the Ferath.
Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde...I took a ( Read more... ) -
[Milliways] OOM: Girls' Day Out
With her dad going to Cardiff for the weekend (she'd asked him the specifics, and still wasn't quite sure--but then, his job was of an esoteric nature), and her mum on a short holiday with Ivan, Sarah Jane had opted to look after Maria for the weekend. She stood at the front door with a pack of a few essentials (she did live just across the road, ( Read more... ) -
[Realm of the Muse 1.74.3] Response
Things do not get better by being left alone. Unless they are adjusted, they explode with a shattering detonation.
--Winston ChurchillTheir old house was small, and as a consequence, it took a layer of at least three pillows against her ears to just barely muffle the vitriolic words slung equitably between her parents. Her father had, for years, ( Read more... )