Thanks for the comments, everyone. It turns out sex scenes are kinda fun to write. Who knew?
I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
Lyra Jane - Dec 01, 2003 10:25:27 am PST #7686 of 10001
Up with the sun
erikaj - Dec 01, 2003 10:32:14 am PST #7687 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Wrod...although I've been known to make myself sweat and giggle nervously at the exact same time.Approaching VampLove very cautiously...part of me still doesn't want to be that kind of girl.
deborah grabien - Dec 01, 2003 4:42:12 pm PST #7688 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Second drabble, same theme (creation).
Trauma
There is a dark place where there should be none.
It sits, a microscopic nodule of quiescence atop a healthy-looking bit of tissue. A picture taken of it would show a pinpoint of uncertainty, a shadowy patch that only an eye trained in the mysteries of such things might read. It doesn't seem enough to cause the sudden searing headaches; certainly it's too small to kill.
And yet, without movement and without growth, it can do both things.
Joyce, not knowing what else had come into being when her second daughter was made, winces and sways, and reaches for aspirin.
erikaj - Dec 01, 2003 4:44:31 pm PST #7689 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Wow, that's powerful, Deb. I thought the same thing when I saw my mother's breast films. That it was a really tiny spot.
deborah grabien - Dec 01, 2003 4:47:50 pm PST #7690 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Having recently had the experience of lying there and watching the sonogram or whatever it's called of the breast mass? And having been there with cervical?
I know the feeling. Sorry if I raised anything too bad in the memories department, though. It's just that I have certain deep sympathies with Joyce.
erikaj - Dec 01, 2003 4:50:33 pm PST #7691 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
No, not at all...it's been a few years now. Well, two. next month.
deborah grabien - Dec 01, 2003 5:38:50 pm PST #7692 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
erika, e me with your snailmail addy, OK? I have something to send you.
amyparker - Dec 01, 2003 6:25:49 pm PST #7693 of 10001
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
(joining erika and deb in the "It's so tiny. How the fuck --" corner)
erikaj - Dec 01, 2003 6:33:35 pm PST #7694 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
It looked like a bruise on an apple. I remembered that because I was a picky kid and hated to eat fruit with bruises on it, drove mom crazy. And I've often wondered that about about my own brain...it's probably not that big, either...the spot getting me all the kickass parking spaces. And thank you for not thinking I'm fucked up for looking...people irl thought that was gross of me.ETA: Deb, insent.
deborah grabien - Dec 01, 2003 7:08:27 pm PST #7695 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
erika, got it, babe. (Actually, I already had it, but nice to confirm.)
I get to do the "that little thing is fucking me up?" all over again shortly (assuming they get this $%%#@^% insurance stuff straightened out PDQ); little white flecks this time, the ms lesions.
Turns out some of the really tiny ones? Really are there just because I'm pushing the half-century mark. Not the big clusters, though.