Milord,

You have asked me why we should meet if there is nothing there but memory and stress; that even the tiger-touch of our bodies is not enough to risk a goodbye in person, though I would wear her skin for you again; that it all seems like bad literature or, worse, revisiting the scene of the crime.
Which, my sweet, whirling maker, is how it ( Read more... )

Re: The Make a Wish Foundation

Crissy: I made a dollar donation to the Make a Wish Foundation today.

Jay: Oh, really? I hope the kid doesn't waste it on a stupid wish.

Crissy: Like, I want my own ice cream.

Jay: No, no. That wasn't really that bad. I meant like.. I want some candy.

Crissy: I wish I didn't have to hit puberty. Wish granted ( Read more... )

precious and fragile things need special handling ( Read more... )

Remember that you are ashes, and unto ashes you shall return.
- Book of Ashes, Grammata Cinera

"What are you looking at?"

Modren raised his hand to shield his eyes from the sun and took a deep breath.

"The sky is wrong, Kallistra. You can smell it in the air."

She turned her face to his; he could feel her auburn hair teasing his skin. "It's snow, ( Read more... )

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"Vivec admired the cone-shape of his child and remembered with joy the whirlwind of fighting styles that instructed him during the days before life..."

The warrior-prophet Modren wandered into the hidden-and-not-hidden library of webs and studied the secret word of H-T-ML. Within it he discovered the bones of Horde Mountain and the founding of ( Read more... )

ha, he exclaims in mocking self-deprication. Monday update makes it sound habitual.

track listing of the moment:

Marching Bands of Manhattan - Death Cab for Cutie
Consequence - The Notwist
Chocolate - Snow Patrol
Girlfriend in a Coma - Joshua Radin
Camera One - Josh Joplin
You and I Both - Jason Mraz

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Kingdom of Heaven is not the singular influence in my WarJournal Campaign, though it is, without a doubt, an influence. Since I haven't mentioned it much in my journal in the past, I feel the following sentence to be necessary:

Kingdom of Heaven is one the best and most important movies of the last ten years.

With little over 12 hours remaining, I've come to the realization that I haven't been behind the DM screen in over a year. I think I'm ready, and there's no doubt about my enthusiasm for the project.. but it feels like the second story in a trilogy.

Basically, I'm worried about delivering.. because this is a different sort of story to what I've ( Read more... )