QuickFic Session #7: Beginnings

[shurhaian]

I didn't spread the word about my prior prompt call because I was somewhat behind. This time, though, I'm nearly caught up and progressing well, AND it's in time for "the last week of the month." Therefore: it's time again for a flash-fiction prompt call!

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[quoting_mungo]

♠ How things began to cross over into the inappropriate between Jessie-Belle and Mr. Zweigart
♦ Celebration or prophecy on a new birth into a tribe
♣ A well-known writer trying over and over to find the perfect opening sentence for a love letter
♥ Coming out of a bad situation alive, and relearning how to live a normal life, with a new appreciation for the small things (may be suitable for them spacey peoples?)

[shurhaian]

Coming out of a bad situation alive, and relearning how to live a normal life, with a new appreciation for the small things

"Convalescence" (probably NSFW, mild M/M suggestions; 5438 words)

[ysabetwordsmith]

1) At the beginning of a drought, when it's already horrible and things are dying, and there are months to go before it could possibly lift -- how do you deal with that?

2) In a world where anthropomorphic species are fighting for equality, how did that get started?

3) At the moment the battered young protagonist boils over and decides to become a villain because the world is too fucked up to deserve saving, someone steps in and jostles him off the path.

[shurhaian]

At the moment the battered young protagonist boils over and decides to become a villain because the world is too fucked up to deserve saving, someone steps in and jostles him off the path.
"Tipping Point" (583 words)

[stilghar]

I. Shakedown cruise of a new SLA/Navy Capital Ship

II. An Apprentice's first real breakthrough with his/her Master. "You've just taken your first steps into a larger world."

III. A First Meeting that might blossom into something far greater...

IV. One's ending is another's beginning. It's all a matter of perspective.

[shurhaian]

Shakedown cruise of a new SLA/Navy Capital Ship
"Trial By Fire" (4012 words)

[stilghar]

Nicely done; thank you. <^,^>

[lutris]

• A god observing the beginning of a new universe
• First night at university
• Dawn the day after the dominant sapient species has transcended and left their home planet behind / to fallow / as an artistic gesture
• Taming fire for the first time (either for an individual or a species)
• Virginity lost (hey, you ask for beginnings, this one's classic. ;)
• A seed becoming a plant
• Driving a car for the first time
• Dawn
• First thaw of spring
• First bomb dropped to start a war (can't say I like this one, personally)
• First life on a planet

[shurhaian]

Whoops. I'd owed another block from a prior rollover, so have a double-long one!
Virginity lost
"Unlikely Partners" (NSFW, M/M dragon/human, size difference; 1218 words)

Technically ran a bit long even for the double block, but trimming it down would take a good deal of work and defeat the purpose.