Yep, I'm longwinded. I always tend to the long forms rather than the short forms.

Heh. Drabbles are the only thing I've ever wanted more space for. I spent my entire academic career writing things that were a third of the required length and then feeling like I was padding them out.

Drabbles, though, I'm forever wanting another fifty words.

When skin aches with the cold and every unshielded breath is an invitation to another round of painful spasms, the sky is perfection

Ah, Connie, that's it exactly. And the shadows on the snow are lavender-blue.

Deb, Joni Mitchell started running through my head the minute Steph posted this one. I love "a relationship not worth the vinyl of someone else's album."

I love "a relationship not worth the vinyl of someone else's album."

I keep forgetting how personal some of these drabbles are. Thing is, his band had an album come out at right around the same time (the man in the drabble, that is), but all I can remember is Blue, when I think about that particular kick in the gut.

He's also the gent in the feather drabble. Way more than I could handle, back in the day. But an education...

To Joyce:

She remembers being accused of showing doctored photographs and she laughs. There isn't anything you can do to a picture to make it close. No colour shifts, no dodging nor burning can tell you how warm it is, or how cool, or how clear and sparkling and everchanging.

There's no breeze in a photograph, no bracing smell, no calming noises. Fish can't nibble your back then scatter in shards of light. The sand can't spill through your toes.

He tilts the catamaran, and she laughs, dipping her head back into the crystal spray.

Blue is merely where the Caribbean starts.

God are these drabbles good this week. Seriously, folks.

ita has me remebering scuba diving off Grand Bahama, and Montserrat before the volcano blew, when Air Studios wasn't buried under thirty feet of ash.

Damn it.

An attempt to drabble....

I almost have my father's eyes. The shape is there, the dark clarity, and the way they're set into a prominent bone structure. Even the nearsightedness--that comes from him.

But not the color. I am not blue-eyed. Specifically, I do not have eyes of a near-sapphire hue rarely seen outside of Mary Sue fanfic.

Yesterday my daughter's eyes, which had lingered in indistinct newborn gray for nearly two months, suddenly began to well up with brown. She will have lovely eyes. But now I know they won't be my father's.

I think know when I got this one. It might have been that right hook in the second round, if it skipped off my orbital bone on the way to my nose. He apologized profusely for his sloppiness, but knowing I only had twenty seconds more sparring before the nosebleed became problematic meant any forgiveness would need to wait until after I'd kicked his ass.

I thought no more of it, dabbing my nose by rote while I watched the lucky non-bleeders keep fighting, until the wiseass yelled from the door.

"Makeup again?"

Closest to blue eyeshadow I ever get.

ita, good one. But there's a missing word, alas:

if it skipped off my orbital bone as it on the way to my nose.

as it what on the way to your nose?

Actually, it's not a missing word, so much as two unremoved ones.

Will edit.