Erm...So Yes
I just joined this community and I will soon start helping post new ideas for the Weekly Story so please, spread the word about this community and hopefully it will become a lot more active with lots of new members!
Casting quarters into wells that hold our dreams
It seems this community is sort of passing into oblivion. I really haven't had the time to do my part lately, and nobody else has responded much to the last few challenges. I'm expecting this spring and the following summer to be very busy for me, so while it's been fun, I'm gonna put this thing on ice for now. I won't stand in anyone's way if someone wants to pick it up and post their own challenges and drabbles, but I'm hopping off this ship for a while. Thanks for a good time. ♥
Challenge #15
Oops, I think I forgot to post a challenge last weekend. If anyone missed it, I'm sorry. Anyway, here's a new one, finally. :)
Challenge Title: Dream Come True
'Even if you get your wish, there are usually complications.'
- Dangerous Angels
Write 100 words about a wish that came true and what happened afterwards, be it something from the books or something of your own imagination. Have fun. ♥
Challenge Title: Dream Come True
'Even if you get your wish, there are usually complications.'
- Dangerous Angels
Write 100 words about a wish that came true and what happened afterwards, be it something from the books or something of your own imagination. Have fun. ♥
Dancing The Dress
Title: Dancing The Dress
Challenge Title: New In Fairyland
Books: Baby Be-Bop/Cinderella
Characters: Gazelle/Cinderella
Words: 100
Author's Notes: Gazelle, Dirk’s great grandmother, goes to Cinderella’s ball. These girls both find their freedom in a magical dress, in a figurative sense, and I thought that was something neat to work with.
She came to the ball full of sin but wrapped in silk; the devil’s bride dressed in cream-coloured hope. Drawn by the music and a longing to dance, she hoped to escape the wicked one’s curse.
Girls gasped and lords stared when she stepped up the stairs; rose-covered, fair, strewn with dawn’s last stars. As silence fell the prince lifted his gaze, and the heartbeat he skipped urged him; “Make her dance”. Asked for her hand, she gave him it all; her body and soul; dancing a love that streamed back through his arms.
At midnight, sin fled her world.
Challenge Title: New In Fairyland
Books: Baby Be-Bop/Cinderella
Characters: Gazelle/Cinderella
Words: 100
Author's Notes: Gazelle, Dirk’s great grandmother, goes to Cinderella’s ball. These girls both find their freedom in a magical dress, in a figurative sense, and I thought that was something neat to work with.
She came to the ball full of sin but wrapped in silk; the devil’s bride dressed in cream-coloured hope. Drawn by the music and a longing to dance, she hoped to escape the wicked one’s curse.
Girls gasped and lords stared when she stepped up the stairs; rose-covered, fair, strewn with dawn’s last stars. As silence fell the prince lifted his gaze, and the heartbeat he skipped urged him; “Make her dance”. Asked for her hand, she gave him it all; her body and soul; dancing a love that streamed back through his arms.
At midnight, sin fled her world.
Challenge #14
Challenge Title: New In Fairyland
This one might be a little tricky, but I think it can be a lot of fun too. Take a fairytale, or something akin to a fairytale - it can be a folktale or a legend if you like - and merge the main character with one of FLB's creation. As an example, Echo could be H.C. Andersen's Little Mermaid, with the appropriate alterations to the story. Then write 100 words about how the fairytale would be with this new hero or heroine.
Remember to specify which fairytales and fairytale characters you use, as well as which FLB books and characters. Do ask if you have any questions, and enjoy. ♥
This one might be a little tricky, but I think it can be a lot of fun too. Take a fairytale, or something akin to a fairytale - it can be a folktale or a legend if you like - and merge the main character with one of FLB's creation. As an example, Echo could be H.C. Andersen's Little Mermaid, with the appropriate alterations to the story. Then write 100 words about how the fairytale would be with this new hero or heroine.
Remember to specify which fairytales and fairytale characters you use, as well as which FLB books and characters. Do ask if you have any questions, and enjoy. ♥
Ready to Return
Title: Ready to Return
Challenge Title: In The Crystal Ball
Books: Dangerous Angels
Characters: Witch Baby
Words: 100
Author’s Notes: Set a few years after "Necklace of Kisses." Witch Baby, after taking some time to find herself, decides to go back to Angel Juan.
Witch Baby sat on a sun-baked desert rock, staring at the sky and pulling snarl-balls out of her short-cropped dark hair. After graduation, she'd driven across the Baja desert and through Mexico, taking photographs of dusty roadside altars and tiny children begging in the gutters, tourists shooting tequila and sad-eyed girls wearing hummingbird amulets. Living freely,tied to nothing but the road, her camera, and herself. But now, she knew it was time to return to her angel boy. They'd each learned to stand alone and now could truly love each other, without dependency or fear.
Challenge Title: In The Crystal Ball
Books: Dangerous Angels
Characters: Witch Baby
Words: 100
Author’s Notes: Set a few years after "Necklace of Kisses." Witch Baby, after taking some time to find herself, decides to go back to Angel Juan.
Witch Baby sat on a sun-baked desert rock, staring at the sky and pulling snarl-balls out of her short-cropped dark hair. After graduation, she'd driven across the Baja desert and through Mexico, taking photographs of dusty roadside altars and tiny children begging in the gutters, tourists shooting tequila and sad-eyed girls wearing hummingbird amulets. Living freely,tied to nothing but the road, her camera, and herself. But now, she knew it was time to return to her angel boy. They'd each learned to stand alone and now could truly love each other, without dependency or fear.
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Until The End
Title: Until The End
Challenge Title: In The Crystal Ball
Books: Dangerous Angels
Characters: Cherokee and Coyote
Words: 100
Author’s Notes: Cherokee goes to visit an old friend, some decades after Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, when she is all grown up and he is an old man.
Cherokee’s feet followed the old track almost by themselves. Coyote sat waiting outside his house, shadows deepening the lines in his skin as the sun set. Cherokee sat down in silence by him, watching. “How are you doing?” she asked when night fell. “We are all doing very badly,” said Coyote, his voice soft and sad like the wind in the trees. “Have you lost hope?” Cherokee asked anxiously, but Coyote smiled, making his face look like cracked desert ground. “Hope is the last thing to go, child. I won’t give up on Earth before Earth gives up on me.”
Challenge Title: In The Crystal Ball
Books: Dangerous Angels
Characters: Cherokee and Coyote
Words: 100
Author’s Notes: Cherokee goes to visit an old friend, some decades after Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, when she is all grown up and he is an old man.
Cherokee’s feet followed the old track almost by themselves. Coyote sat waiting outside his house, shadows deepening the lines in his skin as the sun set. Cherokee sat down in silence by him, watching. “How are you doing?” she asked when night fell. “We are all doing very badly,” said Coyote, his voice soft and sad like the wind in the trees. “Have you lost hope?” Cherokee asked anxiously, but Coyote smiled, making his face look like cracked desert ground. “Hope is the last thing to go, child. I won’t give up on Earth before Earth gives up on me.”
Challenge #13
Challenge Title: In The Crystal Ball
What will happen to your favourite characters in 20 years? Where will they be when they are old? What dreams will they fulfill, and what new ones will they have? What losses will they suffer? How will they look back at their youth and the beginning of it all?
Write 100 words about something that happens after the point where Francesca stopped writing the story. A year later, ten years or almost a lifetime - you can even skip a generation or two if you like. Have fun. ♥
What will happen to your favourite characters in 20 years? Where will they be when they are old? What dreams will they fulfill, and what new ones will they have? What losses will they suffer? How will they look back at their youth and the beginning of it all?
Write 100 words about something that happens after the point where Francesca stopped writing the story. A year later, ten years or almost a lifetime - you can even skip a generation or two if you like. Have fun. ♥
Reclaiming Beauty
Title: Reclaiming Beauty
Challenge Title: Mirror Mirror
Book: Baby Be-Bop
Characters: Gazelle Sunday (Dirk's great-grandmother)
Words: 100
Author's Notes: Gazelle tries on the genie's dress and rediscovers her own beauty.
She couldn't believe what she saw in the mirror. The cream-satin dress, soft and pure as innocence itself, enveloped her body in a silken swirl. Her face, illuminated with a joy long-forgotten, shone like the tiny crystal beads studding the gown's surface. She reached up and caressed her cheek, imagining the touch of a lover, of the man who had given her this greatest gift of all. Gazelle's aunt had always said that the body was something dirty, shameful, tainted by blood and desire. But for the first time, Gazelle felt truly beautiful, her body telling a story.
Challenge Title: Mirror Mirror
Book: Baby Be-Bop
Characters: Gazelle Sunday (Dirk's great-grandmother)
Words: 100
Author's Notes: Gazelle tries on the genie's dress and rediscovers her own beauty.
She couldn't believe what she saw in the mirror. The cream-satin dress, soft and pure as innocence itself, enveloped her body in a silken swirl. Her face, illuminated with a joy long-forgotten, shone like the tiny crystal beads studding the gown's surface. She reached up and caressed her cheek, imagining the touch of a lover, of the man who had given her this greatest gift of all. Gazelle's aunt had always said that the body was something dirty, shameful, tainted by blood and desire. But for the first time, Gazelle felt truly beautiful, her body telling a story.
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True Beauty // Queen In Her Land
Title: True Beauty
Challenge Title: Mirror Mirror
Book: Girl Goddess #9
Characters: Lady Ivory and Alabaster Duchess
Words: 100
Author's Notes: The awesome zinesters write for Girl Goddess #10 about a matter that is close to their hearts.
The glossy magazine girls are throwing away their bodies in the search for beauty’s shape. Like little lost caterpillars, they shred their cocoon again and again, not knowing that these are the wings they were meant to bear. Their transfusion into exuberant butterflies passed them by; they should be indulging in the display of their adolescence. Instead they will themselves to resemble the bony memories of their genderless youth. If they could see past jutting cheekbones and protruding ribs like claws of fear, they would find the goddess they were meant to be; soft, delicate outlines wrapping up their womanhood.
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Challenge Title: Mirror Mirror
Book: Girl Goddess #9
Characters: Lady Ivory and Alabaster Duchess
Words: 100
Author's Notes: The awesome zinesters write for Girl Goddess #10 about a matter that is close to their hearts.
The glossy magazine girls are throwing away their bodies in the search for beauty’s shape. Like little lost caterpillars, they shred their cocoon again and again, not knowing that these are the wings they were meant to bear. Their transfusion into exuberant butterflies passed them by; they should be indulging in the display of their adolescence. Instead they will themselves to resemble the bony memories of their genderless youth. If they could see past jutting cheekbones and protruding ribs like claws of fear, they would find the goddess they were meant to be; soft, delicate outlines wrapping up their womanhood.
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