Kat - I read twice also just to get a deeper feel for it and notice the clues as they were happening.
Love the last line!
Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.
'Serenity'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
Nicole - Sep 22, 2003 4:49:14 pm PDT #6740 of 10001
I'm getting the pig!
sj - Sep 22, 2003 4:49:26 pm PDT #6741 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Kat, that was so creepy and wonderful.
Theodosia - Sep 22, 2003 5:05:21 pm PDT #6742 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
For the Due South Flashfiction challenge just a while back, we did Documentation, which produced some really wonderful efforts. It's amazing what you can do with a serially-amended shopping list, or the accident report for a car, or the case notes from a college counselor.
deborah grabien - Sep 22, 2003 5:11:28 pm PDT #6743 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Thing is, Theo, I popped over to look at the "lists" in question, and they seemed designed almost totally to be for those under 30, or those with particular, oh hell, lifestyles.
I just can't get excited about "Names that can be used in the title of the song 'Yesterday'", or "Sidewalk Etiquite"(WTF is THAT all about?) or "Words Learned While Playing Dungeons and Dragons."
Lists may be cute, but a list isn't generally a theme, and these put me right off my stroke. One of the first ones I ever participated in was one of twilite's - "write a drabble using the following elements: a set of keys, a gun, three words" and that sucker produced some of the best drabbles I've ever seen, and I wrote one of my own personal favourites from it, about Wes chasing Lilah all over the country through a series of cheap motels, always one step behind. It was that theme that got me to join that community.
But if this week's is typical, I'm outta there. It's just not where I live, nor what I what I write drabbles for.
Theodosia - Sep 22, 2003 5:18:30 pm PDT #6744 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I haven't seen those... yeah, sounds like freshman HS English composition time....
erikaj - Sep 22, 2003 5:20:44 pm PDT #6745 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I didn't like that when I got credit for it. Not that I have room to talk being as I barely stick my toes in the fandom wading pool.
askye - Sep 22, 2003 5:23:29 pm PDT #6746 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I never found where the List of lists was, so I never saw what everyone was working off of. Although in glossing's lj she said it was from McSweeny's. (I think)
One of the list is "things my father and I never talk about" I think i saw one actual story from that and then another that was a just a list of things that Xander and his father never talked about it. There's also the Ten Dates never to forget or something, which I've only seen as a list of 10 dates based on airdates and what they mean and that's not a story and there are better ways to interpert the challenge.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2003 5:30:47 pm PDT #6747 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow.
Kat's mean.
Nice job.
P.M. Marc - Sep 22, 2003 6:30:00 pm PDT #6748 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Damn, Kat. Wow.
Beverly - Sep 22, 2003 6:48:09 pm PDT #6749 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Uh huh. Be mean some more, Kat. Please.