I'll bury you in my sound

Beaten Path

A/N:  Someone asked for an example of my original fiction.  Here you go:  a tiny snippet of something that was later reworked and published.

BEATEN PATH

The road cut off Route 24 and went meandering vaguely uphill into the forest.  For a quarter mile it was paved.  After that the trees closed in around it and it dissolved into gravel, then dirt, and weeds last of all.  A colorless sign stood crooked there in the nodding dandelions and barberry, its pocked surface displaying a rash of woodpecker marks and the words NO OUTLET.  At this sign a Jeep trundled to a stop.  The motor blatted once.  Quit.  The door opened and a man got out.  For a moment he stood stock-still in the Jeep’s shadow, his head cocked.  It seemed that he was waiting for something. 

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so give it to me straight okay

how likely is it the hospital is playing ac/dc right now because i hear dirty deeds done dirt cheap over and over like a gargle-spit rhapsody ahaaahhha

hello children this is your ash on drugs

Don’t think I’m going to be able to post or be online the next few days.  Sorry, all.

Please take care.

How To Write An Earth Kingdom Poem (1 of 4)

leradny:

How To Write An Earth Kingdom Poem

Rating:  PG-13 (cruel teachers)
Genre:  Friendship
Summary:  “To teach is to learn.”  The Avatar, even while blind, is a challenging student for Lin Bei Fong.  Lesson One of Four.

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Exactly three hours and forty-eight minutes after Lin sends the pro-bender Bolin home, news of the captured Avatar’s whereabouts arrives.  The radio catches her attention like a cleared throat.

“Chief.”  Sergeant Akiojiro’s hoarse report is backed by a girl’s moaning, and sounds of a struggle.  “We’ve found the Avatar and her companion.”

“—fighting us, please, Avatar.  I know it hurts, but—”

Lin highly doubts that anyone would be able to restrain this Avatar by force if she was thrashing around in pain.  So she doesn’t bother with her usual command to keep it down.  “What’s going on, out there?”

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This is quite excellent and I’m really rather dying for the next part.

Call Down Heaven

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“You’ve got to do something else to help improve her balance,” says the doctor as he makes to stitch up my arm.  In the room’s harsh light his watch glints and gleams, throwing up spangles, and the silver shimmer in his hand is a tiny, terrible dagger.  “The karate she’s taking is good, but it looks like it’s not quite enough.”

Mom shoots Dad a victorious glance, her nose scrunched, her mouth a tight line.  “It’s too masculine anyway,” she huffs.  Smoothing her hand down my shoulder, she adds, “I know what we’ll do.”

Suddenly there is something in my world scarier than the doctor’s needle.

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Oh hey, right, it’s Tuesday!

Y’all can ask me stuff if you feel so moved!  Don’t be shy — I don’t bite.  =)

Lineage - [The Legend of Korra]

A/N:  Wherein Lin Beifong proves she’s her mother’s daughter.  Happy Mother’s Day!

LINEAGE

“I could help you in Republic City!  With the uprising!  I could—”

“You could,” says her mother, but leaves her on the ice anyway.

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Okay, I need some help.

So I was just talking to Elena about… uhm.  Well, to be honest I can’t remember how we got on the subject, but apparently it’s surprising (weird/strange/WHAT) that I kiss my parents/brother/family members on the mouth when I’m saying goodbye to them.  I’m not talking total gross open-mouthed lingering tongue-inclusive kisses here:  I’m talking gentle, close-lipped brushes that last maybe a second or two apiece.  It’s a ritual!  I’ve done it for as long as I can remember, but judging by Elena’s startled reaction this makes me a freak. ;-;

Does anyone else do this?