Most of our communication is my halting, shy, self-hating words and your talking computer, which you do not bring to my bed. I am a dialogue junkie even at twenty and I hate that you deprive me at such a time of your usual baroque skein of compliments.While I just lie there, naked. That is how I come to understand your voice...the one you were born with, not the assistive-tech voice(The curse words are the clearest. I love you takes a couple visits. Is that your problem, or mine?) When we kiss, we could be any couple in America.
Danger's my birthright.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
erikaj - May 23, 2005 10:25:59 am PDT #2290 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Connie Neil - May 23, 2005 10:49:07 am PDT #2291 of 10001
brillig
drabble
The Intensive Care staff try to keep me out. The drugs Hubby's reacting to are making him thrash. The sedative should have knocked him out enough for them to get the IVs in to stabilize him. Somebody breathlessly suggests restraints. I hear him try to scream around the tube in his throat.
"Ma'am, you can't--!"
I get a hand on his foot. He twitches and goes quiet. Panic, then they see the vital signs coming off their frightening spikes. The head of the team waves back the nurse reaching for me.
"It can wait."
dcp - May 23, 2005 11:34:57 am PDT #2292 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Drabble:
Speed whistles past the canopy and trembles in the controls as we cruise toward the next turnpoint. A dip of the wing first one way, then the other, hints at the lift we are passing by. A pulsing buzz from the instrument panel coaches, "A little faster...now slower...." The unwinding altimeter feeds that little knot of fear that we'll have to land in some farmer's field, while the sight of distance made good tries to reassure us that it was height well spent.
A kick in the pants tells us we've found the next good thermal, just in time. We circle, and climb, and dance the dance again.
Steph L. - May 23, 2005 11:38:24 am PDT #2293 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Connie, that officially freaked my shit out.
It's sad that I'm tempted to write an entire drabble in 1337-speak, isn't it?
Try it, and I KEEL YOU!!!
Connie Neil - May 23, 2005 11:47:29 am PDT #2294 of 10001
brillig
Connie, that officially freaked my shit out.
Sorry. Somehow he always knows when it's me touching him.
Polter-Cow - May 23, 2005 12:13:16 pm PDT #2295 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Try it, and I KEEL YOU!!!
w00t w00t that would r0x0r!!!1
Gris - May 23, 2005 12:20:20 pm PDT #2296 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Oh, it'll happen. I just need inspiration. I'm thinking of going and reading the forums for something like World of Warcraft for a while, only I'm pretty sure I don't want brains on my computer monitor.
Anne W. - May 23, 2005 12:21:39 pm PDT #2297 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I'm pretty sure I don't want brains on my computer monitor.
Your brains or someone else's?
Gris - May 23, 2005 12:22:55 pm PDT #2298 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Mine. Gamers make my head go 'splodey.
deborah grabien - May 23, 2005 12:29:16 pm PDT #2299 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Was any of that in English?
I mean, what's D. talking about?