Warm summer evenings in Eminescu’s city, pouring local wine from big plastic bottles into chipped glasses while the purple shadows lengthen all around us. Romania in 1993: a world where a bride and groom fresh from the church with cheeks glowing and veil a-flutter will queue for an hour to achieve the glamour of a Big Mac from the newly-opened McDonalds; a world where one in three people worked for the Secret Police; a world of poetry and bureaucracy and wild dogs roaming the streets; a world of imported soap operas, glittering dreams, back-breakingly hard work and cheap red wine.
Kaylee: You're nice, too. Mal: No, I'm not. I'm a mean old man.
'Serenity'
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.
Fay - Jun 05, 2007 12:30:16 am PDT #8957 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
dcp - Jun 05, 2007 3:54:52 am PDT #8958 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Beverly, it's possible, perhaps even probable, that was the real cause, but I hope I described the experience vividly enough to explain why I've never tried to find out.
-t - Jun 05, 2007 5:25:55 am PDT #8959 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Of course she's looking forward to your propposal, Jilli, but I'm glad she had the presence of mind to say so. I hope the three weeks fly by.
i'll have to ponder the drabble.
-t - Jun 05, 2007 6:13:54 am PDT #8960 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not that much pondering needed, as it turns out. A little autobiography because it amuses me. 100 words including title.
Why I Self-Identify as a Math-person, not a Lit-person
I was underemployed, living on a friend's charity, with a lot of time and few responsibilities when I came across a John Steinbeck collection and read Tortilla Flats. The characters scrounged free eggs and bought jugs of wine whenever they somehow came into money. Steinbeck always mentioned how much those jugs cost, and since I knew how much Hearty Burgundy went for at Safeway, I calculated the rate of inflation from Steinbeck to me. It has stuck with me ever since; cheap, red wine as an economic indicator.
Amy - Jun 29, 2007 6:01:17 pm PDT #8961 of 10001
Because books.
Anyone still interested in doing weekly drabbles?
This thread is so lonely, there are cobwebs in here. And I miss the drabbling, writing-talking companionship. I'd be happy to post some prompts on Mondays if anyone is up for it.
Ailleann - Jun 29, 2007 6:14:10 pm PDT #8962 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Anyone still interested in doing weekly drabbles?
Wooo! I was just thinking about this the other day, how we haven't done them in ages!
Amy - Jun 29, 2007 6:16:10 pm PDT #8963 of 10001
Because books.
::holds Ailleann's hand and beams::
Beverly - Jun 29, 2007 6:57:29 pm PDT #8964 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'll try. At least I can help think of prompts.
Amy - Jun 29, 2007 7:07:22 pm PDT #8965 of 10001
Because books.
Yay!
::brushes away cobwebs and blows dust off the chairs::
JenP - Jun 29, 2007 7:10:41 pm PDT #8966 of 10001
I might even play.
Maybe.
If I don't chicken out.