I feel like I've used that subject line before, but when I search for "party" in my "Prompts Past & Present" file, I don't even see it... who cares, anyway ( Read more... )

Have you ever pondered, or researched, or been sure you knew, what the first name of "Mrs Claus"/"Mrs Santa Claus" is? Check her out on Wikipedia -- I'm not even going to list all the names she's gone by in various books/movies/etc., and she's had about as many tasks & traits as she's had names. I'll admit, I'm of the age/background that 'Jessica ( Read more... )

No, not *that* birthday -- one that hasn't been celebrated for millennia, but that *has* been celebrated for a remarkably long time in terms of this country, i.e., longer than this country has been a country, 381 years in fact. 13th December1636 is considered to be the birthday of the National Guard in the US, though really many dates could be ( Read more... )

Apparently y'all find snow as inspiring as cookies! We've got seven drabbles (one illustrated) and five pieces of rather epic standalone art tonight on a particular favorite of mine, the things-made-of-snow concept ( Read more... )

Wow, apparently cookies motivate you guys! :-) We've got eight drabbles today, including one with art, one with a recipe, two that are series continuations, and one that is the start to a new series. (Half pre-slash today, with three gen and one slash ( Read more... )

Title: Blessed Protector
Type: potentially pre-slash
Rating: teen and up
Word Count: 4038
Summary: Someone wants to kill Jim…
Warnings: Blair is a cop
A/N: Thanks to my beta

( Blessed Protector )

OK, today's was a weird prompt, because I've been doing this so long that I'm pretty much out of other holidays, but I like to recognize them anyway, so I left it up to you guys (albeit somewhat confusingly ( Read more... )

...our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective." Martin Luther King Jr said those words 50 years ago this month, in a Christmas sermon in Atlanta, Georgia. It seems an extraordinarily fitting statement ( Read more... )

..."in a one-horse open sleigh..." -- yes, today is the return of the sled/sleigh prompt after a startling five-year hiatus. :-) LOL, my first thought for a subject line was "Sleigh Ride!" -- and apparently I'm consistent with that, in that I used that in 2007 (though admittedly the prompt *was* "Sleigh Ride," back when I was still doing song ( Read more... )

Title: Heavenly Guardian
Type: Pre-slash
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 6110
Summary: Jim is a disillusioned cop in Cascade that hasn’t got any hope for mankind or himself until he meets a stranger and things begin to change.
Warnings: AU, Religious Talk, Angst, Talk of suicide attempt, Happy Ending
A/N: Happy Birthday, Lyn

( Heavenly Guardian )