41 - False Hope

... me looking worried." The corner of Russia's mouth trembled. "Good." He pushed his hair out of his eyes with the back of his left hand. The bones hadn't healed as well as they could have, and there was crookedness to Russia's wrist that hadn't been there before. It didn't matter, though. He could use his arm again. "That's why I'm here. So that neither of us will have to worry anymore." A deep ...

"Limited Edition"

Back in the dark ages when I earned minimum wage in the warehouse of a furniture store, I saw things that man was not meant to see. It was my first proper education in crookedness and cynicism. I would like to say that I wasn't implicit at times, but sometimes buyers are their own worse enemies. I would normally say caveat emptor , but at some point people need to learn that you get what you pay ...

I steal secret glances at you over my glass of diet coke, Laugh at all your jokes, even the not so funny ones, Smile internally, at the crookedness of your lips when you smile. I love it When you whisper in my ear Leaning closer, I smell the fresh scent of washed hair. The glint in your eye when you see something you like The warmth of your lips on my earnest cheek, as we kiss goodbye, Or Hello,...

NaNo :: Day 6 - 1,296 words. 12,879 /50,000.

... tongue. He rolled away, too, but only to reach of the pair of thick-rimmed glasses that had been thrown on the nightstand earlier. He slipped them on, adjusting them to make up for their slight crookedness, and then turned back to see her standing there, still in her nude, curvy glory, accented by her crooked arm from her hand on her cocked hip. She was grinning, lopsided, and her hair was long ...

"The Trouble With 'X'"

... (food, drink, rest, sleep, exercise) should be positively delightful to them. And, having done all this, He then sees all His plans spoiled - just as our little plans are spoiled - by the crookedness of the people themselves. All the things He has given them to be happy with they turn into occasions for quarrelling and jealousy, and excess and hoarding, and tomfoolery. You may say it is very ...

(Dust -&- An Almost-Love Poem -&- Merlin)

... books are waiting. Send him away. --- Merlin Hermes compressed, endowed with greased black mirror eyes garnishing noblewoman's wrists while they totter and sway on the catwalks. Thatched with slate and fawn, trailing wingtips as though long-sleeved. The gnarled agonies of your talons! The crookedness of your wings! The prim hook of your beak, so burdened by the world. So light on my wrist.

for all the times you spent running part 2

... for a very late dinner. yamapi's voice crackles as their connection stretches from ryo's apartment to whatever obscure location yamapi happens to be filming at, but ryo can always see the fatigue in the crookedness of yamapi's smile, feel the restlessness in his jiggling knee, and he can hear the regret in the distorted inflections of his voice. so he says see you later and i'll be waiting and ...

Fiction: A Bicycle Built for Two

Yay, the third part in the trilogy! Though there will be, eventually, an epilogue closing things up in a neater, tighter way.

Persona 4 - Someday, The Dream Will End

... when it was an injury from a shadow. Those could be fixed. They were like badges of pride: the small, nearly invisible scar left along the hand, a bit of skin missing from the jaw, the crookedness of a little finger from a break that didn't heal as expected. They had thought she'd be safe. Shadows didn't go outside their dungeons. But Adachi could. And he did. What Yosuke remembered was ...

It's 1:30 am. Do you know where your clay is?

... I get when I finish a digital painting. There's more focus on flaws and I am so much harsher with the outcome. For some reason with clay, the imperfections and flaws--like my own fingerprints or the crookedness of a line endears me to what I make, more. Maybe it's just because everything I make is purposefully 12-year-old-ovary-grabbing-cute most of the time, too which I love. I should be ...