Monthly Challenge; July 2008; The Dangerous Alphabet

[beachkid]

The June Kink Challenge is now closed, although of course late submissions and kinks of all shapes and sizes are always welcome and encouraged. ;)

For this month, the challenge uses the text of Neil Gaiman's (and Gris Grimly's) The Dangerous Alphabet. The illustrations, of course, help make the book brilliant (and I highly recommend it) but for the sake of murky legality and simplicity, we're just using the text.

All thirteen couplets are under the cut, ready and waiting to inspire, and there's some pretty great lines in there (although the alphabet is not to be trusted. I'm sure you can all spot why). Remember, challenge responses can be anything - from fic to art to a vid or icons or anything else.

Make sure to note that you are responding to the Dangerous Alphabet Monthly Challenge and link back in your post, and a link will be added here.



A is for Always, that’s where we embark;
B is for Boat, pushing off in the dark;

C is the way that we find and we look;
D is for Diamonds, the bait on the hook;

E’s for the Evil that lures and entices;
F is for Fear and its many devices;

G is for Good, as in hero, and morning;
H is for “Help me!” - a cry, and a warning;

I am the author who scratches these rhymes;
J is the Joke monsters make of their crimes;

K’s but a Kiss - lovers glow with elation;
L is, like ‘eaven, their last destination;

M is for Mirrors you’ll stare in forever;
N is for Night, and for Nothing, and Never;

O is for Ovens, far under the street;
P is for Piracy, blunt or discreet;

Q is for Quiet (bar one muffled scream);
R is a River that flows like a dream;

S is for - somewhere - a Skull and its Smile;
T is for Treasure heaped into a pile;

U are the reader who shivers with dread;
W’s Warnings went over your head;

V is for vile deeds done in the night;
X marks the spot, if we read the map right;

Y’s your last question, at the end of the ring;
(Z waits alone, and it’s not for a thing).