I'll be making a new filter for the troupe stuff. Please reply/post if you're interested in reading. :)

oc I know it seems stupid to do this icly but he was an epic cat, so it seemed sort of fitting to give him an "epic" goodbye in some manner that's more than just me curled at my keyboard wishing I had real life words to say how much I'll miss him mrring at the door, which was, without a doubt, always one of the highlights of my day. He didn't need ( Read more... )

The letter in my hand shakes as I open it. There's an official company seal on it from the construction company. It doesn't have the perforated edges that means its a check. I glance at the house, making certain that Mama's not here. She'd take the letter ( Read more... )

The reward doesn't seem like a reward at first. It seems like my soul getting yanked out ( Read more... )

I get it, but it's not the way that the wizard wanted me to get it. I hope he understands that because really, despite how completely and totally pissed off I am, I realize that it's necessary for us to be pushed sometimes, tested, questioned, or just plain reaffirmed ( Read more... )

She opened the back of Blackhall's book, the empty pages that he'd left for her to fill. She wasn't the most eloquent or cultured person. She wasn't the best schooled. Her voice didn't match the pages and pages of inspiration that he'd left her ( Read more... )

The field is quiet, hot, baking in Indian noon-day sun that sinks right through the caramel color of my skin and makes me strip off all the nice silk sari and down to jeans and a sports bra and I don't care who stares. I dump a bottle of water over my head and the water leaves rivulets down my dust stained back, rinsing little trails along the ( Read more... )

Just hang on ( Read more... )

All she could think of, as the outside mirrored some sort of calm Obrimos zen she didn't know she had, was "holy god they're going to kill me ( Read more... )

Fuck I don't want to do this one. I don't want to judge this man. I don't because I'm biased and I have to understand that and move on and pretend I"m not to make this decision. I hate trials. They're a necessary evil but half the time no one gets what the "evil" part is. They're just the nicer way, the kinder way, the more fair way of dealing ( Read more... )