::hides Mistral's Kiss under sofa cushion::
Nothing to see here, move along.
Wash: I mean, I'm the one she swore to love, honor and obey. Mal: Listen... She swore to obey? Wash: Well, no, not...
'War Stories'
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.
SailAweigh - Jan 05, 2007 5:56:13 am PST #8806 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
erikaj - Jan 06, 2007 2:57:41 pm PST #8807 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
For brand-new challenge:
Resolutions
She wished the coming new year didn’t fill her heart and mind with impossible plans. This was the year that she was going to be stylish, organized, productive and, somehow, speak French. Even though Spanish was the language she studied, and the way she used the words made the native speakers giggle in their hands.It wasn’t French she really wanted anyway, not the halting attempts at expression or the mess of conjugation, but that sense of herself as someone accomplished.Instead, she wakes up every day disappointed to see the same face in the mirror and stepping around the piles, part one of cleaning out the closet, still unfinished.
Zenkitty - Jan 06, 2007 3:14:46 pm PST #8808 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Wow, erika, you wrote about me. (Except it was German, not Spanish.)
-t - Jan 06, 2007 3:37:40 pm PST #8809 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sharp.
erikaj - Jan 06, 2007 5:41:53 pm PST #8810 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Thanks...I've noticed resolution skills have little to do with actually doing whatever I've resolved, more about what it adds to my reflection or self-perception to be a "woman who...". Maybe that's why they don't work.
sj - Jan 06, 2007 10:15:29 pm PST #8811 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Wow, erika! You're right on target with that one.
Anne W. - Jan 07, 2007 4:24:51 am PST #8812 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
That was gorgeous, erika. That one hit home and hit hard.
Steph L. - Jan 08, 2007 11:24:22 am PST #8813 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
New drabble time!
Challenge #139 (brand-new) is now closed.
Because we haven't done them in a while (thanks, Lee!) challenge #140 is pictures from the Look at Me website. Drabble about any or all of them, and please mention which picture it is so that people can go back and look at it if they'd like.
One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten.
Connie Neil - Jan 08, 2007 11:38:13 am PST #8814 of 10001
brillig
Number 10 [link]
Aunt Beulah was always so proud when people said she looked like Mamie Eisenhower. She took special care when she and the girls went off to the State Championship. But she refused to do what Edna and Katie advised.
"We're a bowling team, not a tea cotillion! I am not wearing pearls with my bowling shirt!"
It just killed Edna that the sport she loved forced her to associate with women like Beulah. "Ever since the war, standards slipping everywhere."
Still, when Beulah brought in the tournament winning split, Edna was the first to jump up and fling her arms around her.
Atropa - Jan 08, 2007 2:21:30 pm PST #8815 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Number Five [link]
In what was to become a familiar and shocking scene repeated around the world, the witnesses of the attack said there was no warning that the family automobile was about awaken to violent life. If the reader looks closely, this photo taken just minutes before the attack shows the now-recognizable warning signs of the car headlamps developing pupils and the front grill transforming into a toothy maw of destruction.