The Last Word (0)
Posted 1 June, 2008 in D: 2006, F: The Office (US), Pairing: None, Rating: PG13
Written for nomad_shan in the Yankee Fic Swap, December 2006. At the time it was plausible, but now it’s basically an AU. *shrug*
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Dwight isn’t as happy at Jim’s goodbye party as he thought he’d be. Now that he has a guaranteed spot as Michael’s number two man, it isn’t as fulfilling as he’d thought. Morosely, he downs two cups of punch before realizing that someone has spiked it. Then he tries to close off the punch bowl, but no one’s having that. Michael tells him to stop being such a party pooper; Stanley gives him a scowl and pushes past him unceremoniously. No one has respect for the law; they’re all going to slide off the road and die. Idiots.
It’s just another excuse to get mostly drunk and say stupid things to one another. Darryl tells Jim to have fun on his trip to Austria. Angela makes her excuses and leaves early, and Bob Vance comes to take Phyllis out to dinner. Most of the time, Jim stands off in a corner pretending not to stare at Pam, who is pretending not to stare at him. This party, thinks Dwight, is worse than the Saint Patrick’s Day party when Creed threw up green beer. Everyone seems to sense it eventually and finally, when the punch bowl is empty, even Meredith staggers outside. Michael takes one look at the mess and disappears. No one’s left but the cameramen, and they do not help. Dwight begins to clean everything up, and is surprised to see Jim picking up the decorations.
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Prelude (0)
Posted 18 February, 2008 in D: 2004, F: One Tree Hill, Pairing: None, Rating: PG13
prelude (PREL-yood, PRAYL-, PRAY-lood, PREE-) noun
1. An introductory event, performance, or action preceding something more important.
2. A musical section, overture, etc. serving as introduction to the main composition, opera, play, etc.
verb tr., intr.
To serve as an introduction to something.
[From Medieval Latin praeludium, from Latin praeludere (to play beforehand), from prae- (pre-) + ludere (to play). Ultimately from Indo-European root leid- (to play) that is also the ancestor of words such as allude, collude, delude, elude, illusion, and ludicrous.]
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World Tour (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2006, F: The Office (US), Pairing: None, Rating: G
Written for office_romances. Creed & Jim & musical pretentiousness.
One girl was called Jean Marie
Another little girl was called Felicity
Another little girl was Sally Joy
The other was me, and I’m a boy.
–The Who
One girl was called Jean Marie
Another little girl was called Felicity
Another little girl was Sally Joy
The other was me, and I’m a boy.
–The Who
Wall and Water (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: Unknown, F: The X-Files, Pairing: None, Rating: R
This story was posted with the permission of both Gizzie and Martha Little, authors of the Messenger/Time/Tercet universe. It deals with Langly’s alcoholism within that universe.
Muchas gracias to my beta, Nancy Floyd-Finch, also known as “Evil Mistress of Betas.” If this story has any merit, it’s because of her beta, and her re-beta, and her re-re-re-beta.
“It must be understood that neither by word nor deed
had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will.
I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face,
and he did not perceive that my smile NOW was at
the thought of his immolation.”
–E.A. Poe
Tres Cher! (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2006, F: The Office (US), Pairing: None, Rating: PG
Written for office_romances, post season one.
Kelly is really and truly done crying over Ryan, and she knows it because she’s gone to the MAC counter at Nordstrom and bought herself a new lipgloss, and she didn’t think once about what Ryan would think when he saw her wearing it. It’s a frosted purply-plum called “Tres Cher!” It sounds like something a model would wear in a Vogue photoshoot, striking a pose in front of the Eiffel Tower.
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Treaty of Versailles (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2003, F: Everwood, Pairing: None, Rating: PG13
Bright is not stupid. He isn’t. He isn’t. Things just . . . have a way of slipping out of his head. Take history, for example. Columbus discovered America in 1492. In 2002, Bright Abbott rushed one hundred and forty yards in the second-to-last game of the season, adding insult to the other team’s injury, and helped bring about a spectacular, fiery win.
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The Time Difference (2)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2006, F: Friday Night Lights, Pairing: None, Rating: PG
Set post-s1 finale
At five a.m. three days after his football team takes the state championship, Matt Saracen gropes clumsily for the ringing phone. He knows who it is; it’s the only person who always, always, gets the time difference wrong between Texas and Iraq.
“H’lo! Hello!” he says into the phone as loudly as he can without waking his Grandma (who should be used to weird early morning calls but somehow isn’t, and has a tendency to get confused and sometimes cry, so Matt tries to answer the phone on the second ring and be as coherent as he can, be a man about the whole thing). “Dad! Hello!”
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The Big Carry On (0)
Posted 12 July, 2007 in D: 2007, F: Friday Night Lights, Pairing: None, Rating: R
Tim & Tyra friendship fic, post “I Think We Should Have Sex.”
We’re both self-centered,
but the world revolves around us at the same speed.
– Jeffrey McDaniel. “Absence.”
Take A Breath, City (0)
Posted 12 July, 2007 in D: 2002, F: TMNT, Pairing: None, Rating: PG
We’re watching the moonlight bounce off the New York City skyline. It looks different this year, now that the Twin Towers are gone. We’re older. We’re wiser. We’re both more and less adept. We still love pizza.
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Knock the Smile Off My Face (0)
Posted 12 July, 2007 in D: Unknown, F: Alias, Pairing: None, Rating: PG13
for the “elizabeth smart challenge” (using a line from her poetry).
When the incendiaries lit the sky
A face smiled its divine calligraphy:
It was Helen crowned with Troy’s debris.
–Elizabeth Smart. “Love in Wartime.”
The image wakes him out of an already uneasy sleep: Sydney, standing in the middle of the office, looking pleadingly at him, wanting him to understand. It hadn’t been that long ago: she’d been dressed in black and looking like a Valkyrie, calling war down on her enemies. But in the middle of chaos, she’d spared a glance for him, as if she knew what he was thinking. Retrospectively, she probably had.
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