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A. Quotes
1. There's no prayer like desire. -Tom Waits
2. For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. -Unknown

B. ( Photo Prompts )

We apologise for being MIA, but there were unexpected real-time issues that had to be dealt with immediately. We did not expect them to take up so much of our time, and will try to keep similar situations from occurring again.

Until all issues are fully resolved, however, we will need to limit prompt posting to twice a month for the short-term.

Thank you.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen

( That acid summer we were wasted and happy, we were laughin' in the sunshine. )

Alexander Xavier
X-men OC
369

A. Events:
1. Sporting event
2. Black-tie dinner

B. Phrases:
1. This killing emptiness
2. Dead language
3. Death by moonlight

C. Quotes
1. "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." ~Marcus Aurelius
2. I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit
3. Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen

Letter to Kay Milliner-Polerno

Isabel Giovanni // World of Darkness // 558 words

( This room won't be open 'til your brothers or your sisters come. )

Muse: Alexander Xavier (OC)
Fandom: X-men
Word Count: 767

Cloud knew there were ghosts. That didn't mean he wanted them in his life.

Muse: Cloud Strife
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Word Count: 164

A. Moments in time:
1. Thirteen years old
2. Closing time.

B. Phrases
1. Bonjour mon coeur.
2. In the realm of the hungry ghosts.

He had journeyed around the world and not one step was made from regret. No, he reinforced that position in his mind as he stood facing the eastern face of the city. The side that had the unspeakable privilege of seeing the same sun rise that Lucretia had those fourteen years ago. Ambrogino Giovanni regretted nothing -- regret was for the likes of Augustus Giovanni who had locked himself into his private chambers after his childe Claudius proved how stupid he was. Granted, Ambrogino had played more than a passing role in those developments. He had done the family and Clan a favour, truly, in showing the patriarch how duplicitous and inferior of nature was his childe.


Ambrogino Giovanni | World of Darkness | 1191 words

(My mother was a lean woman, as was my mam before her. Unlike my mam, there was little softness to cushion the edges and angles of my mother's frame. To my child's eyes it seemed as if there was something inside of her that consumed her slowly each time she gave of herself to help improve the lot of others. I would find later, that my imaginings were not far off the mark, but time for that recollection has not yet arrived.

I learnt early in my life the nature of life and death in the villages nestled in amongst the high and low places of Bannau Brycheiniog. It was only to be expected, as I was her heir as she had been her mother's heir, and would take up her mantle when the time did come.)

Mistress Gwynne // Mage: Dark Ages // 593 words

Hunting's a lonely life, so it's natural to take comfort where you can.

Muse: Jo Harvelle
Fandom: Supernatural
Word Count: 156

A. Titles/Opening Lines:
1. The Return of Nothing
2. Anywhere but home
3. The morning breaks so cold and grey
4. Goddess of the green fields

Muse: Alexander Xavier
Fandom: Original Character, X-men AU
Word Count: 399
Open for RP/comments at the entry.

( Sometimes a person's first words are to themselves. )

X-posted to this journal

A. ( Photo Prompt )

B. Quotes:
1. There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love. - Don Juan De Marco
2. If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society. -Jean Piaget

C. One word inspirations: spring, fling, may fly, roses, ribbons, wine, and/or song

A. ( Photo Prompts )

B. Poetic Inspiration:

1. I am purified and free,
And I will not allow you to ignore me.
I have brought you a gift.
It is all I have but it is yours.
My name is "I am living." I am here.
~Anna Lee Walters, Pawnee-Otoe, "I have Bowed Before the Sun"

2. God is alive. Magic is afoot...
~Buffy Ste. Marie, "God is alive. Magic is afoot."

Magic is alive. The Goddess is afoot...
~several thousand goddess worshippers

3. I heard an old voice say
'Don't go far from the land
The seasons have their way
No mortal can understand.'
~Loreena McKennitt, "Courtyard Lullaby"

C. One word prompt inspiration: rain, verdigris, eggs, bunny, chick, lamb, peace, robin, warmth, and/or chocolate

I can't really say I've had much experience with love.

Muse: Abigail Jovanka
Fandom: Original Character
Word Count: 93
Open for RP/comments at the entry.

Algiers was drenched for much of December. Rain cascaded down the steep, narrow streets of the Qasba and washed in curtains across the bay. It poured from the white cupola of the El Djedid mosque and dripped from the twisted pomegranate trees in the courtyard of Khaled’s house. 

Pendant La Déluge - Algiers, 1888

Muse: Hadrian Gray
Fandom: Original
Word Count: 284

A. ( Photo Prompt )

B.Quotes/Opening lines
1. I'll torture you so slowly, you will think it is a career.
2. These in the robings of glory, Those in the gloom of defeat, All with the battle blood gory, In the dusk of eternity meet. - Francis Miles Finch, The Blue and the Gray
3. Young men preen. Old men scheme. - Mason Cooley.
4. I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman
5. Belladonna: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

C. One Word Inspirations: cherry, blossom, spring, verdant, robin, garden, soil, rain and/or narcissism

One day, Tifa started volunteer work at the local hospital.

Cloud Strife || Final Fantasy VII || 479 words

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. - Diane Ackerman

It has taken me the best part of a century to accept that some mysteries are best left unsolved, and should be simply accepted - maybe even appreciated - rather than questioned. My continued existence is one of those mysteries.

Muse: Hadrian Gray
Fandom: Original
Word Count: 317