Title: The Kudou Files, File Thirteen: Hide and Seek
Author: ran_mouri82
Word Count: 960
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Aoyama created this enormous cast of characters. I just mess with them.
Notes: First Kudou Files update in five years! Formerly classified scenes from the married life of Kudou Ran and Shin'ichi. manycases1truth: #13 - Lending a Helping Hand

( Shiho's lab became an unusual hiding spot. )

Conan touched his thumb to the phone’s screen as Ran ended the call. This time, he knew in his bones that he would never hear her voice again. There was too much risk otherwise. He dropped the phone and bowtie. Not even her voice….

From now on, he would keep those sound waves, the unique pitch of Ran’s voice, in his memory. A pair of tears found ( Read more... )

"So? How'd it go?" Sonoko asked as she and Ran opened their lunch boxes on the school roof. Since Shin'ichi was catching up on coursework, she finally had a chance to talk to her best friend in private. A few clusters of students were scattered around them at a safe distance, according to Sonoko's standards, so she dug into her friend for ( Read more... )

Armed with a strawberry layer cake, Mouri Ran stared at Professor Agasa’s front door with shaky determination. If anyone were to have spied Ran on their noonday travels as they passed the large, modern house, they might have mistaken her for a ding-dong-dasher; she took a step forward, then back, and then started to run away, and then ran back to ( Read more... )

Title: Resolve
Author: ran_mouri82
Word Count: 1705
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Aoyama's the conductor on this mystery train.
Spoilers: OVA 9 - The Stranger in 10 Years
Characters/Pairings: Edogawa Conan/Mouri Ran, Haibara Ai
Notes: An alternate ending to OVA 9.
( They were getting a little old for Hide and Seek. )

I've noticed part of what keeps me from LJ is I don't have much to say in blog format.  Brief status updates are another story.  It's also much easier to scope out FB friends' status updates than to scour their LJ posts.

Does anyone else feel Facebook drags them away from LiveJournal?

Ignoring how it's been forever since I've posted here, I have to share about my office's vending machine.  For as long as I can remember, it's been stocked with nothing but the junkiest junk food (except for trail mix, which is still high calorie).  But today, when I finally sucked it up and went for a nosh, I found--oh my!

Nestled beside a Snickers ( Read more... )

Thanks to poodilywoots ' lularious post, five of my icons are explained just for you!:

1) PAYNE HAIR / WORTH IT!

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As a current job-hunter with an English BA, this topic on Helium.com jumped out at me.

The biggest challenge facing those of us with a BA in English isn't the lack of direct marketability so much as our lack of proactivity.  To that, I plead guilty.  (Of course, the closed-mindedness of many employers, fellow graduates, and society in general makes ( Read more... )

Had a bit of an insight today ( Read more... )