When Jared entered the playing court, both teams had already finished forming up. The playing sphere had been activated, the lines denoting its four quadrants and out of bounds regions glowing softly. It looked like each side had the required six primary players, but neither one had any alternates. Ordinarily, there would have been plenty of ( Read more... )

I spotted the purple backpack the instant I walked through the front door. It was lying across the foyer from me, half on and half off the first step of the staircase leading upwards, as though it had been shrugged off by someone who didn't much care where it fell. ( Read more... )

I didn't want to open the last drawer. Like the ones that had come before, it would contain memories from a happier time, a particleboard fortress reluctantly disgorging items that would have to be examined, remembered, and finally placed into one of two piles, keep or discard. I surveyed the two piles in question, patiently awaiting new ( Read more... )

Given the rapidity with which I failed in LJ Idol earlier this season, it would perhaps be more appropriate if I were committed, rather than being allowed to make another commitment. Still, here goes nothing:
I will be participating in Last Chance Idol for as long as I am able.

Dan

Crossposted from Dreamwidth

When faced with a time sensitive task, how many of you take the time you know you'll require to finish said task, and double it? You would think, in a culture driven by numerous measures of productivity, that consistently doing this would give you the reputation of being an inefficient, lazy, and none too bright worker. I assure you, such is not ( Read more... )

(The ALMOST entry! In other words, I didn't finish it in time.)

On Sunday morning, the nefarious Lizbeth lured myself and the girlitas out of bed with promises of breakfast from Taco Bell. (Yes, I know, I also formerly classified Taco Bell food as the best non-narcotic solution to constipation ever created by humankind, but the Crunchwrap™ ( Read more... )

Even though this was the week where many many people took a Bye, there were plenty of amazing entries out there. What follows is not a comprehensive list, far from it, but just a few entries that spoke to me.

lrig_rorrim wrote what I think was one of the most original takes on the prompt in her entry The Shapeshifter's Heresy. If you're like me, you've ( Read more... )

Dan was exiting the shower when he heard the suspicious noise from the bedroom ( Read more... )

When the yelling started from down stairs, I curled away from the noise, holding the book like a protective shield in front of my face. The individual words were mercifully indistinct at this distance, but the pitch and timbre clearly communicated the underlying anger of both parents. I checked my mental calendar and sighed. Yes, it was the last ( Read more... )

Most kids don't usually look forward to getting braces. The process is guaranteed to be painful, takes place in an over-reclined chair which probably wouldn't have been out of place at a party thrown by the Marquis de Sade, and inevitably involves multiple individuals sticking gloved fingers and metal instruments in your mouth. Even if you're ( Read more... )