..., sullen face and the neck of her black dress bleared with pancake, ordered drinks with wormwood in them. Sometimes a blond man hovered by the kitchen door, his handkerchief hanging from his suitcoat like a dead cardinal. On other days, the band played. They stumbled down the narrow stairs from the makeshift studio above, its corridor painted an emerald so glossy that their fingers left sticky ...

Hrafspa (first draft, complete)

... life, before the brain tumor finally got to him. I only took a cursory look at the table before I spotted Helena waving me towards a pew towards the back of the room. I sprinted up the aisle in my suitcoat and tie and slid in next to her. In front of us were the triumverate of our family's elders, Modar, Brianna, and Jadwiga, all of whom looked as though they had been crying. I do not know how ...

DITL!

....  My head's back to normal, but I'm tired. My co-worker's birthday was yesterday.  She literally got three garbage cans full of flowers. Ready to leave.  I know I shouldn't uncerimoniously stuff my suitcoat into my bag, but it's too hot to wear it home. Waiting for the metro. Staircase. If there's a sinkhole in the asphalt, don't fix it.  Just put a water container in it and ...

GET BEHIND THE CURTAIN!

... chant. The unmoving crowd felt a little too sarcastic to play along. "Yes We Can!" "Go inside?" "Yes We Can!" "Move the line?" "Yes We Can!" Eventually, a man in an Obama shirt and a suitcoat told us the hall was full. A disappointed murmur went through the crowd. But wait! 1500 of us could go to an overflow room! We wouldn't get to see Obama, but at least we could hear the speech. To...

Peace That Comes at Length

...for her daily round of treatments. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ “Tory, if it’s an emergency, and my security if needed, but no one else, Jack.” She sounded stronger than she felt, she knew, as she shrugged off her suitcoat and bent over the files in front of her, ignoring the swift pinch of the needle sliding into a new spot on her arm. She was going to run out of veins eventually, but Cottle was as quick as...

Spamalot the Musical, and related excitement.

.... As you can guess, a significant amount of repressed panic was happening in the car. So we turned left into the first parking area we could find. Oddly enough, the parking attendant had a nice suitcoat and tie, and one of those squiggly wire earpieces. At first glance, I thought I'd pulled into a closed parking area because the entrance in front of me was blocked with a massive piece of metal and...

Chapter 3, 2056 words

... acceptable – there was a knock at the door, ending her misery of being so unsure how to dress. It was Jasper, wearing the same sweater and slacks he’d worn to work, but with a suitcoat over the sweater. He looked dashing and she was relieved and glad she hadn’t gone more casual. He also looked smoldering hot, though she pushed away that uncharacteristic thought. “You look lovely,” he commented,...

I like writing these posts. I dunno if anybody likes reading them

...Dame busses arrived with their police escort - drank whiskey before 8am - polished off a bottle of champagne before noon -chugged redbull and went out to party again - drank whiskey straight all night -took off my suitcoat and flossed it between my legs on a table to " numa numa " on a table -a girl tried to rape me and started ripping off my shirt yelling, " SHOW US MORE I GOTTA HAVE...

Japan – Day 170 (03-30-07)

...This concludes the double-posting time. I went back to work today. When I got there, I found out that there was a farewell ceremony for all of the leaving teachers. And I was supposed to be wearing a suitcoat and tie. So, since nobody mentioned this to me before I set off (I usually don’t get told these sorts of things until the day before, if that), I went back home during the first part of ...