Title: Letter to Adaville
Topic: My True North

( We are in Nebraska, my sister and I )

omg, flist, it's been YEARS. well, weeks. i feel like i'm behind on everything except nano - i'm actually ahead! it's the sex scenes - i've managed to keep up with writing lj idol challenges but not reading everyone else's, and i think i'm going to take a bye this week. who knows ( Read more... )

Title: Why Are You Here?
Topic: Solvitur ambulando

Corin comes back from his afternoon run to find an unfamiliar car in front of his house and a familiar person sitting by his front door.

“Reese,” he says. “What are you doing here?”

( They were friends, once. )

Title: Yes for the Quiet Life
Topic: “My enemies are all too familiar. They're the ones who used to call me friend ( Read more... )

Title: Meat or Mustard
Topic: Impossible

Quince is wearing a nametag sticker that says “Bartender Cocktail Crafter” because when he showed up at Marna’s place, a girl he didn’t know asked him how he identified, and the first thing out of his mouth, before he could even engage his brain, was “bartender”.

( In his defense, he just got off an afternoon shift at the bar where he works )

Title: In the Shed
Topic: Everything looks like a nail

“Dad?” Roisin called, peeking into the dining room. “Hey, Dad?” He wasn't in the parlor or the bedrooms either.

Fetch your father, her mother had said. Tell him his lunch is getting cold. Easier said than done, when he didn't seem to be in the house or the garden.

( She went into the kitchen )

Title: Two Months Is Too Long for This
Topic: Living rent free in your head

“Hey,” Chloe says, interrupting herself to gesture furtively behind me. “Doesn't that look like Marissa?”

I turn and look. “No.”

( She has a shirt just that color. )

Title: A Necessary Distraction
Topic: Resolution ( Read more... )

I got my hair cut today for the first time since April (I think), and yes you all needed to know that. I smell like salon and hair products but my hair is shorter and cute now. About ten minutes ago I was watching Contraband because Giovanni Ribisi is in it and I'll watch him in literally anything (he's in Gone in 60 Seconds, one of my favorite ( Read more... )

i'm pretty sure i'm going to regret this, but i'm in.