Cheerios: I just wrote a fanfic drabble for "The Wire" on this topic.
Because Kima breaks down doors in her job as Narco. I don't own Kima or Cheryl. My imaginary husband does, though, and this is an imaginary community property state. Too bad.

Cheryl ain’t never gonna know what it’s like.(She doesn’t even like when Kima talks like that, says she knows better, and she does, but there’s something about breaking down those doors makes Kima feel all young and free like a kid.) She needs to do that shit. Needs it like food and water and Cheryl’s luscious body beside her in bed at night.(Although, yeah, as often as she breaks McNutty’s balls, she has to admit when she gets hungry enough a little stripper fast food is as good as steak with Cheryl.)

Because sometimes you just wanna eat, not put out the silverware and tablecloths and all that.

Part of Cheryl does understand. Kima knows that. They met when she was shoving a microphone in some joker’s face at City Hall, after all. Cheryl had the same look on her face that Kima gets after a righteous collar, the one that says “You’re busted , asshole. And by a woman, too. How you like that?”

Now, she makes that face cause the crib’s late, and wants to catch the crib guy in a lie. How the hell did they get here?

If you didn't use the words "love grotto" or "throbbing lance," you're several steps up on the competition.

Heh. Nope. No purple prose for me.

Though, you realize that with the historical era and military nature of my stories, I could have a literal throbbing lance one of these days. I just need to get one of my heroes into battle against some of Napoleon's lancers, get him stabbed in his manly muscular thigh, look down, and think, "No wonder it hurts so bad--that lance is still throbbing!"

I didn't see my CP's responses to my sex scene until about an hour ago, since I had a wedding to coordinate this afternoon and we had a cable outage all morning. The two of the four who've read it so far had some minor suggestions but basically thought it flowed well and had good character development. Whew.

Hey Deb--Matty Groves got a good review in the November issue of Romantic Times Book Club (which, naturally, hit my mailbox Oct. 1). Seen it yet?

Seen it yet?

They reviewed it? COOL! Nope - is it online?

edit: "Not yet available online". But four stars - yay!

They give two paragraphs of plot summary, followed by:

Grabien successfully mixes English history with an intense paranormal mystery. The pieces of the novel come together neatly and succinctly when present-day drama reveals past events. With its smooth plot, this ghost story will captivate even those readers who don't believe in ghosts.

Excellent! I don't think they looked at the first two, so it never occurred to me they'd look at this one.

Thanks, Susan. And goodonya for those sex scenes.

Question for the group: A friend has pointed me to a site that publishes hard-boiled stories. I have some drabbles I could expand, mostly for the practice and to fulfill a goal of publishing fiction in 2005(they can't pay me) But my question is this: I went through the archives as I now always do, and they have yet to publish a woman, just a bunch of guys named Jack and etc. So do I want to send them a story *about* a woman, or, say, a Mallory story, which would allow me to blend in with the crowd a little first? Because I'd say Tommy is the best male character I've ever created.Though I'd love the mindfuck of being published for that drug dealer story, being that we are as different as different could be(Not right for this site though) and everybody would boggle that somebody like me has a little Clayvon in her(and I don't mean porn).

erika, my thinking is that, so long as you do it well enough, you can do it any choice you make. If it's tough enough, and well-written enough, that is, and I trust you for both.

Teppy! Monday! New topic?

Have we done "bones" yet?

I decided to flesh out my original "behind the door" drabble this time, which is sort of playing it safe as a Guy Story, but with my own spin. And I have a beginning already so that saves me half a day's mindfucking, which, in these troubled times, is an important consideration.(I need to pace myself on that or I'll be bald by mid-term elections, and on my fifteenth draft of the book, too.)ETA: And there is plenty of time for me to show them my rack once we like each other, you know?

Actually, for this week's drabble topic, I'm going to go back to one we've already done, though it was a year and a half ago. That *should* be enough time elapsed that the resulting drabbles will be fresh and new.

If you don't like the idea of repeating a topic, please say so, and I'll come up with something new.

But for now --

Challenge #77 (behind the door[s]) is now closed.

Challenge #78 is a blast from the past, the very first drabble topic: two people are sitting at a table, opposite each other.

Hit it.