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365 Challenge: Prayer, Memory, Love, and Poetry

by Liana Posted on June 4, 2013
This entry is part 37 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

So for the next so long, you'll be getting batched updates because I'm writing 2 count per day. This time 'round, I was particularly pleased with the poem, and if I were going to submit any of these, it would be "By the Numbers."

Well Doing, Weary

Canon: Miscellaneous Fiction
Characters:
Pairings:
Prompt: Oh, I try out a smile / And I aim it at you / Oh, you must have missed it / You alway
Rating:
Notes:

Sometimes we get weary. Really, bone-tired weary.

That moment when faith becomes sight.

All the old preacher wanted was some sign the families in his church might soften their hardened hearts to the Word they claimed to keep.

   

Don’t Remind Me That It’s Over

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters:
Pairings:
Prompt: Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now
Rating:
Notes:

So a whole new set of characters, I know, but this was actually the first team I ever developed of this world. Team five. It was kind of nice to find they matched the prompt.

Ricki had put away the past when she put away the name.

Anna has a new photography job and decides to go back through her old snapshots and memories. Ricki, who is visiting, demands that she stop—before it hurts too much.

   

By the Numbers

Canon: Miscellaneous Fiction
Characters:
Pairings:
Prompt: If love is anywhere / Mine still belongs with you...
Rating:
Notes:

This is a sequel of sorts to “Bridge.”

How does one rekindle a faded love?

David had been buried in work and statistics so long, he and his wife had forgotten how to communicate. They just need to take that first step…

   

Flight of a Wild Mare

Canon:
Characters:
Pairings:
Prompt: I am not a poet, living is the poem...
Rating:
Notes:

I swear, I’ll write you some prose off this prompt. Just not this time.

You’re riding me hard, and I’m put away wet. / My soul like His cloak is a gamble, a bet.

   
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4 for the 365 Challenge

by Liana Posted on June 2, 2013
This entry is part 35 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

Collateral Damage

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Andre Morelle, Jennifer "Shift" Haller, and Rachelle "The Database" Winslow
Pairings:
Prompt: Is she really going to die because of her abilities?
Rating: T
Notes:

So let’s just say there’s a reason Rachelle tries to stop her team members from helping her, and that reason has a name—Shift.

No price is too high...

Andre knows a young woman’s genes are killing her, but is saving her a lost cause?

   

To Dance with a Dragon

Canon: Vardin
Characters: Etienne "Template" Gravois de Calai and Jhemet out of Calai
Pairings: Etienne/Jhemet
Prompt: a rothnen pair that's happy with each other/glad to find the one from their dreams
Rating:
Notes:

So frankly, I should’ve finished Jhemet’s coming to Vardin story first, but it didn’t like me, so this is what you get.

He preferred the translation, Never assume anything.

Etienne has a few assumptions about this girl, this woman he may one day marry. She doesn’t much mind setting him straight.

   

Blood of Dragons

Canon: Vardin
Characters: Akena out of Britak and Burn
Pairings:
Prompt: I probably need some clarity on what it means to be a dragon in Vardin...
Rating:
Notes:

She was still a little girl for all she was a woman.

Akena is the daughter of guardians of Vardin, sworn to protect their people and their lands, and yet, she doubts herself, that she will ever become what she should.

   

Name Me Another (or Glass Angel, Redux)

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Ashen
Pairings: Ashen/Jordan Michael
Prompt: Who are these two?
Rating:
Notes:

He wanted to know her name. She wanted him to know who she was.

Ashen hopes to create a new life and a new name for herself with Jordan Michael, a businessman with his own reason to be interested in special type humans like her, but can he ever see who she is beyond the name?

   
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Brain is Musty...: Ficlet O'Clock Truth or Dare

by Liana Posted on May 21, 2013
This entry is part 34 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

The current prompts are leaving me dull and uninspired. Seeking creative procrastination: ask me any question about how something works in a storyworld, a why that's been pestering you, or any backstory you just really want to know, and I'll commentfic it.

If that doesn't inspire you, how about a character (original or fandom) and something crazy you would dare them to do.

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365 Challenge: Abyss Looking Back

by Liana Posted on May 20, 2013
This entry is part 33 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

Abyss Looking Back

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Justus/Rachelle, Justus "Defender" Ellison, and Rachelle "The Database" Winslow
Pairings: Justus/Rachelle
Prompt: He waits by the window / And wonders...
Rating:
Notes:

Sometimes Justus wonders why Rachelle is always looking into the abyss.

Justus and the Database have known each other for years, long enough for him to ignore break the anger and silence between them to help her as much as she will allow.

   
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365 Challenge: That is Something

by Liana Posted on May 19, 2013
This entry is part 32 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

That is Something

Canon: Vardin
Characters: Tracer
Pairings:
Prompt: I don't have a choice but I'd still choose you / Oh, I don't love you but I always wi
Rating:
Notes:

So pygmymuse wrote the first piece of fanfic ever of my work, an AU piece I liked a lot but wanted to tweak into being more them and more indicative of the underlying dynamics involved in being kahtchen. She liked this and let me plunk it in here. Actually, this is one world where it could even end up as canon (see “Tenderness”—more info coming with WIP “Eglantine”), but that’s another story.

We do not choose who we love.

Rhiannon gave up her hunt and accepted the first failure of her life as a guardian—for Tracer, but he might never forgive her for considering choosing another.

   
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365 Challenge: Echoes of Anchor Lost

by Liana Posted on May 19, 2013
This entry is part 31 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

Echoes of Anchor Lost

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Tactic and Catherine "Thought" Elena April (Cate)
Pairings: Thought/Tactic
Prompt: I carry the sadness of a woman
Rating:
Notes:

Very angsty stuff. Sorry, y’all.

Moving forward or moving on are the only options.

Tactic and Thought should have been allowed to marry. They were voluntary operatives who did their work and did it well, but it isn’t the Department that’s destroying them.

   
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365 Challenge: Ficlets

by Liana Posted on May 18, 2013
This entry is part 30 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

When the Clock Strikes Midnight

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Andre Morelle and Jennifer "Shift" Haller
Pairings:
Prompt: Picture of Cinderella
Rating: T
Notes:

Unlike Cinderella, Shift had no hearth to welcome a prince to...

The clock would strike midnight, soon, and all Shift wants is to remember that she has a heart before her cinderella run is over.

   

After the Grief

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Everett "Storm" Kiernan Murray (Rett) and Sierra "Whisper" Lewis
Pairings: Red Wolf/Whisper
Prompt: Happy
Rating:
Notes:

Storm likes to worry about her. Whisper likes to ignore that.

You would think Whisper had ended a relationship instead of started one, but big brother types could be protective regardless.

   

The Way of the Hunt

Canon: Vardin
Characters:
Pairings:
Prompt: Picture of Archer
Rating:
Notes:

So, pygmymuse didn’t understand the concept of hunting in Vardin—more one of treasure hunting or hunting down than animal hunting. I went looking for an outsider to explain it to and Josh was so remarkably convenient.

Just when he thought he found some common ground—at last.

Josh Williams is an outsider to Vardin, kidayet, and so he’s glad to find some common ground at last with someone native. Even if it’s not quite the way he thought.

   
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First Lines Meme, Revised

by Liana Posted on May 6, 2013

So there's a couple of memes that I decided to edit into this: I'm going to post the first lines of all my WIP that have a complete draft but not a revision I like yet. Now to just get some edited!

Seven Days. Waiting to Wake

"You have seven days. Live them."

Breath. [ Jaguar's story ]

Jaguar kneels over the small sleeping form of her young brother.

Breath. [ Ivallyn's story ]

The Collector, Mavren, looked up from the counter when the tiny brass bell tinkled over his opening door.

Breath. The Great Cat and His Soul

Here in the land of the five cities, long before the king and the princes, the queen and the princesses, there was an emperor and empress and a little empressina.

Breath. Artisan's Breath

Alya carefully creased speckless cream linen over the perfect white parchment of her letter—the way her mother taught her.

Kingdoms and Thorn. Dowse and Bleed

Rachelle waited until the restless aches dancing through her upper body were outright pain before she finally forced herself to quit making endless cups of coffee and fished a mottled green star out of the embossed pink tin she kept on the granite kitchen countertop.

Vardin. Lifetaker

Kirana pressed her hand tightly to the young boy's chest, her own chest feeling squeezed as life wrung out from between her fingers and into his body.

Kingdoms and Thorn. [ Teller's Story ]

Word came at dawn of the newly outfitted military station in Westerfields, that vast uninhabited territory between Glaston and Edyll, both kingdoms cities.

Faeology. Edge of Salvation, Edge of Fear (expanded)

Markus and Shellayne hated each other, but as the only arcana-keeper interns available, they were stuck closing the Library of All Knowledge.

Got any first lines to share?

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365 Challenge Ficlets: Songs, Stories, and Life

by Liana Posted on May 5, 2013
This entry is part 29 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

Once Upon a Time

Canon: Seven Days
Characters: Connor Bryn, Lena Johnson, and Wesley Bryn
Pairings: Lena/Wesley
Prompt: Picture of Readers under Tree
Rating: K
Notes:

I thought it might be fun to make them run across each other small, but I didn’t want them to recognize each other later, so new bit of canon: the girl was homeschooled. :grins:

Story is in the mind of the reader.

Once upon a time, a very long time ago, a little boy and a little girl liked to read.

   

A Handsbreadth Light

Canon: Vardin
Characters: Bryn out of Calai, Cayden, and Llereya de Calai
Pairings: Cayden/Llereya
Prompt: Picture of Songbird out of Rock Cleft
Rating:
Notes:

Her life was but a handsbreadth compared to his.

The bonds that form between soulmates are inescapable and irrevocable, but Llereya has misgivings when hers appear.

   

Song Between the Waking and the Dreaming

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Red Wolf
Pairings: Red Wolf/Whisper
Prompt: Picture of Girl and Violin
Rating:
Notes:

He had no memory, but he had music.

Red Wolf’s team has taken an assignment they should not have received and the key to its accomplishment awakens the phantom of memories he no longer has.

   

Owning Beauty

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Pieter James Andrews and Ashen
Pairings: Ashen/Pieter
Prompt: Picture of Girl and Violin
Rating:
Notes:

She has never been beautiful.

Ashen has never experienced being beautiful—until tonight.

   
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Ficlet O'Clock: Bring ye commentfic requests!

by Liana Posted on May 1, 2013

A meme I did once a long time ago from the incomparable xenokattz:

Give me
a) a fandom/original world
b) a character/pairing

Then add any (or all) of the following
1) an image
2) a quote (but not in the same fandom)
3) Your battle cry
4) a recipe

First 10 prompts will get a strict drabble commentfic; that is, a 100 words very brief fic. No promises after 10 although I'll do my bestest.

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