Giraffe Call Advance Notice - prompt me tomorrow!!

From 11 a.m. EST tomorrow until at least 11 p.m. EST Sunday, my giraffe call will be open, with a theme of "Gifts, gifts, and the gifted."

I generally do not close the call until I have written one prompt to every prompter, so if you will not be around until Monday, you still have a good chance of getting a prompt in.

Hope to see you there!

Icon Flash: Sixteen Tons (and whatdy'a get?)

Continuing flash series! I'm going to write one flash for every Icon I have, over 4 LJ accounts, 1 DW, and a whole bunch of not-currently-in-use, until I get bored or run out of icons.

Today's icon:


I made this icon, for this story. Names from Fourteen Minutes' random generator.

This comes after Chain 'Round her Neck.

The title comes from this song.
They’d taken her clothes weeks ago, and Basimontin didn’t give her new ones before he removed her from her cell. He led her by the chain around her neck, like an animal on a leash, through the black-steel corridors of their pirate vessel.

“Where are we going?” she asked, but he seemed to be in a sort of trance. She was pretty sure he was more shaken up than she was – but he’d believed all along that her family would cough up the money. She’d known from the moment they took her that she was never going home again.
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