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Playing, Dragons Next Door, for morrigans_eve

To morrigans_eve‘s prompt “More of Juniper and Baby Smith’s games?” in this flash-fiction meme (LJ).

Dragons Next Door has a landing page (LJ Link)

Juniper rolled her eyes at her parents and headed out the side door to go to the Smith’s place. She knew Baby was still little and pre-lingual. She knew dragons were helpless and nearly mindless until they reached about grown-up-high in length. Cthaiden had explained all of this to her – and, considering some of the stuff her parents had been saying, she’d been listening better than they had.

But they still wanted to explain, when she said “I want to go play with Baby,” either that Baby was a live being and not a pet or a toy, which she knew, or that Baby didn’t really understand the playing yet, yes, she also knew. Baby was a baby. It was fragile and you had to be careful, even if it could poop fire on you, and it really didn’t understand words. Juniper had been there when it had hatched. She knew this all.

She just liked playing with Baby anyway. Baby was small, smaller than Juniper (there weren’t many people she could say that about), and it needed her help to do anything. It was a neat feeling, having another being relying on her.

And, when she wanted to play, Baby didn’t argue or tell her it was a stupid game (although once it had belched on a board game and ruined it). It just crawled over the floor with her, or hit the ball, or slept, and she could tell it all the stories she wanted.

Maybe if she told it enough stories about the princess and the dragon being best friends, when it grew up, it would remember.

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Heh, okay, obviously I don’t write enough

Aug10

Meme yoinked from celli

The first five six people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble/ficlet of any pairing/character of their choosing. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level.

Three on DW, three on LJ.

* If you wish me to write fanfic, I will. However, it helps if I’m familiar with the ‘verse
** Standardish 150-300 word drabbles here.

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“Because he’ll eat your soul” isn’t reason enough?

Jul8

stolen from recessional, who stole it from thatyourefuse:

Give me a character’s name and I will tell you three reasons why it would be terrible to try to date them, have sex with them, or be in a long-term relationship with them.

For an extra challenge, pick characters you know I’m fond of. Anyone can tell you reasons not to date Cthulu, after all.

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Sure! Census meme

Mar9

Ganked from mmegaera, who ganked it from ann_mcn.

In 2011, I am living with my husband, with one cat, in a one bedroom apartment in Trumansburg, NY, between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes, half an hour from Ithaca, an hour from Syracuse and an hour and a half from Rochester

In 2001, I was living with my husband-then-boyfriend, two roommates, one of whom I’d used to date, and two cats, in Brighton, NY, a suburb of Rochester.

In 1991, I was living with my parents in their log cabin in Churchville, an exurb of Rochester, with two cats (different cats).

In 1981, my parents and I moved from a duplex in Spencerport to the log cabin we finished building (okay, they built it, I watched). We had a cat, who lost herself on the move.

In 1971, my mother had just turned 20 and my dad 21, and I don’t know where they were.

Cool: a Sunday meme

Feb6

Stolen from recessional

Name a character I’ve written about, and I will tell you three things that I think are essential to keep in mind when writing that character.

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