“One apocalypse, please,” the very polite customer, a lady in a fine dust blue trench coat, requested. The proprietor went looking through his baubles and artifacts from a hundred million worlds and brought forth the prettiest bauble at last. “Ah. The knob for the door of creation.” “Well,” she said with a smile. “You know […]
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The Thorn (poem)
Prompt here The thorn is sharp ‘Neath gleaming blossom Bright in the lamp Of Springtime’s sun The guard before the Gate to pleasure Its prick as fierce As edge of sword The words that bite The eyes that cut All you see Is love beneath But should you want My heart as yours Respect the […]
Read more...To Be the Dust (poem)
Remind me not to say goodbye The wind will whisper with a sigh For I shall blow upon your face When you and I have left this place When all the stars are dust and gone We’ve swept across the final dawn At last to be the dust of stars I’ll still know you, e’en […]
Read more...Spark (poem)
All it takes to make us burn Is one bright spark we didn’t earn One hot glance and one white night An ember born ‘fore morning light For this prompt: Promptly Lyrical #012
Read more...Arm in Arm (poem)
Joy is when we say hello We breathe the air another breathes We wrap our arms, for as we go We are one in everything Happiness is the way we walk The road together where’er it leads We laugh at night, by day we talk And always care for the other’s needs Friendship is how […]
Read more...true (poem)
today is quite a lovely day in the most significant way the way that means I spoke to you and knew again our friendship true
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Rather than do something productive and useful with today’s break time, I worked on documenting the teams in Kingdoms and Thorn here: http://continuity.lianamir.com/Team_Operatives. Which is especially interesting because it’s just a high level anyway. It’s not all the actual stories and relationships, just stuff to help me remember who’s who at a glance. Most of […]
Read more...Aware (drabble)
Ice Queen made it out injured, but it wasn’t injury keeping her awake. On the other other side of the bedroom, Wolf breathed steadily, as though she slept, as though today weighed nothing. Ice Queen rolled over and stared at the wall, into flames crackling beneath the cries of her mare, village burning because her […]
Read more...Well…
Just wrote 341 words of a mini-scene from when Skylight got the name on her first real mission. Not bad. I worry no one’s going to care about this story but me when it’s finally done. Because apparently, that’s now a thing I worry about. :headdesk:
Read more...burning (poem)
I feel the light, burning in the distance— It’s the light of a thousand fires, the light of a hundred candles, the light of a thousand souls burning in a hundred hearts (Can’t you feel the light, not only in the distance?)— but also in my heart.
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