Poll: Favorite Flash Fic of the Week

Poll #7685 Favorite Flash of the Week

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Which was your favorite Flash Fiction this week?

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Kissing Oneself
0 (0.0%)

The Water Knot
3 (75.0%)

Colder Weather
0 (0.0%)

Going In
1 (25.0%)

Mourning Lost Gods
0 (0.0%)

Planning a Family
2 (50.0%)

Flowers?

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Miaw?
2 (50.0%)

Ook!
2 (50.0%)

Daffodils
1 (25.0%)

Tiger Lilies
2 (50.0%)

Dead ones
0 (0.0%)

Links below:

Kissing Onesself, Facets of Dusk
The Water Knot, Stranded

Colder Weather, Stranded
Going In, misc.Apoc
Mourning Lost Gods, FaeApoc
Planning a Family, Tir Na Cali

There's a Pawnshop on the Corner, Where I keep my Overcoat...

'Scuse the digression.

There's a farmstand on the corner where my lunch-walk passes by...

So yesterday I picked up a zuke, some fresh corn, and a pepper, and for dinner, we had tempura'd tilapia, zucchini, and yam, with fresh sweet corn on the side. Delicious!

This was a bit accidental - I picked up plain seltzer the other day, thinking that Alton Brown's pancake recipe called for it. (It doesn't. His waffle recipe is still delicious). After some searching we determined that it was his tempura recipe... so we made tempura. A nice accident.

30 Days Second Semester: 10, Coming Soon: Reiassan

For the 30 Days Meme Second Semester, for the prompt "11) Write a movie trailer style trailer for a story, existing or not-yet-written."

Reiassan/Rin & Girey - landing page here (and on LJ).

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Pan over a rocky landscape, following a river that wends its way south, past a white-walled cliff city, past farms cut into the mountains. As we begin, the travel up the road, running Northwards, looks like a long, ragged snake.

Voiceover: The two nations on the continent of Reiassan have been at war as long as either of them can remember.
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Breaking In, a Drabble of... breaking in

haikujaguar has begun a writing challenge for her Words of the Day: take the four from Mon-Thurs, and work them into a paragraph/story/poem/etc.

This is mine, for the words lenity, cerement, yataghan and adamant. I meant to make it funny, in contrast to the stories that kept wanting to come out of swords and grave-wrappers. I think the words weighted it on me.

“Hey, Cash, what’s this say?” Anemone jabbed a finger at the metal placard on the broken case.

“Yataghan,” Cassius read, “a Turkish saber found in…”

“Cash! What’s this?”

Of the eight, Cassius was the only one whose parents had paid for his schooling at the Tower, and thus the only one who could read with any skill. This old building they’d found, half-buried under the rubble of another one, the gate buckled open just enough for a skinny teen, had him running all over the place, translating for his friends.
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Vocabulary! And Learning New Words - Sedulous

I took this vocabulary test, and was, being me, a bit miffed at the words I didn't know. But I wrote them down, so I have a new word-a-day for the next month!

Today's word is sedulous:
1: involving or accomplished with careful perseverance
2: diligent in application or pursuit

Origin of SEDULOUS
Latin sedulus, from sedulo sincerely, diligently, from sed-, se without + dolus guile — more at suicide
First Known Use: 1540
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sedulous

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So, taking off from our earlier story...

One of Cash's teachers at the Tower had called him "sedulous," which had annoyed him until he'd found the dictionary section of the library. He wasn't a quick learner, but he was dogged, stubbornly sticking to a subject until he'd mastered it.

Warfare had not been a subject that had particularly interested him...