The Purse

[whitemage]

Name: Ardy
Piece/Story: The Purse
Colors: Bone 8 (Death Knell); Angel Cake 13 (pure); Fire Opal 15 (obsession)
Styles/Supplies: Graffiti (Midsummer Night’s Dream prompt)
Word Count: 580
Ratings/Warnings: PG - mentions dying, homicide, passive sexism; No standard warnings apply
Notes: This went quickly.

( But what's inside? )

Harvest Gold #9

[greenling]

Name: Greenling
Story: Still untitled...
Colors: Harvest Gold #9 (fall back)
Supplies and Styles: Graffiti (Midsummer Night's Dream prompt, Canvas (snippets of Jaymie's backstory)
Word Count: 997
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Summary: So I thought to myself, "I think that's a mouse being chased by faeries, what am I going to do with that?" and then I thought to myself "self, you are really slow on the intake today, why don't you take a nap and do this tomorrow".
Comments, criticism, and questions are all appreciated.

( He found himself wandering under the sky, looking for stars in the flat gray glow. )

Summertime Blues 13, Nile Green 9: Quinceañera

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: Quinceañera
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Summertime blues 13 (Lacrimae Rerum), nile green 9 (Faience) with shadowsong's paint-by-numbers (Many beautiful things are fragile, and many fragile things are beautiful.)
Supplies and Materials: Graffiti (Midsummer Night's Dream prompt), fingerpainting (god I hate first person), fabric (a close up flower (I think)), oils (and then things get a little fuzzy),
Word Count: 656
Rating: PG
Summary: The worst thing Charlotte's grandmother ever did. At least, to Charlotte.
Warnings: racism, guys. Seriously so. NANCY HENNESSY IS WORSE THAN YOU THOUGHT.
Notes: Regarding this story: please recall that I am a pasty white upper-middle-class English-speaking girl. If I have fucked something up regarding cultures or languages that are not my own, please, please, PLEASE tell me so I can fix it.

For the Lint Roller post, Kelly asked Charlotte "What is the worst thing someone has ever done for you with good intentions?"

( Quinceañera )

Stars and Stripes 21, Quill Grey 9: bird on a wire

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: bird on a wire
Story: In the Heart -- EPIC PIRATE AU
Colors: Stars and stripes 21 (“Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.”), quill grey 9 (The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there... clamoring to become visible. - Vladimir Nabakov) with Kana's paint-by-numbers (There is no right or wrong, only the consequences of your actions)
Supplies and Materials: Graffiti (Midsummer Night's Dream prompt), photography, feathers ("After all this time, you won't even say goodbye?"), novelty beads ("I say ya kill your heroes and/fly, fly, baby don't cry" -- AWOLNATION, "Kill Your Heroes"), eraser (EPIC PIRATE AU).
Word Count: 654
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Melanie ruminates.
Warnings: a pregnant woman decidedly NOT happy about it, discussion of child abandonment.
Notes: No actual pirates appear in this story. Sorry.

( bird on a wire )

Crane White #15, Fire Opal #20, Fever Red #15

[shadowsong26]

Name: shadowsong26
Story: Going This Far
'Verse: Feredar
Colors: Crane White #15. A wicked wind will blow your ribbons from your curls (Deva knows a storm is coming.), Fire Opal #20. Destroy what you love/want most, Fever Red #15. sleep
Supplies and Materials: paint-by-numbers (from Kat), bichromatic, graffiti (Midsummer Night's Dream), eraser (Discovery AU), brush (sinuous), oils, stain, fabric, modeling clay, chalk, seed beads, novelty beads (I hate my job), beading wire, glitter ("The truth is, a moral compass can only point you in the right direction, it can't make you go there. Our culture preaches that you shouldn't be ashamed of anything you do anymore. And unfortunately this city is built on the principle that there's no such thing as guilt. "Do whatever you want, we won't tell." So without a conscience, there's nothing to stop you from killing someone. And evidently you don't even have to feel bad about it." – Gil Grissom, in CSI : Las Vegas), glue ("You could talk your way out of a high-security prison today -- or, at least you think you can")
Word Count: 382
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Deva
Warnings: Drugging
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. This takes place in an alternate 986 FY.


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