Rainbow Fiction

Title: Closure
Canon: The Lethean Glamour
Colors: Alice Blue 7 (begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop), Mouse Grey 15 (just around the riverbend), Celestial Blue 7 (heavenly choir)
Styles and Materials: Canvas (a fortnight before the start of the story), Paint-by-numbers (Isana: Holly's favorite music)
Word Count: 692
Characters: Holly
Summary: Holly has made a ritual of writing a letter to her mother each year. This time, though, it feels different.

( It's hard enough being loudly angry at no one in particular; I don't think I'd like to be specifically angry. )

Title: Never Coming Back
Canon: Battle For the Sun
Colors: Harvest Gold (back to school)
Supply: Eraser (high school AU)
Characters: Kristen
Rating: PG with trigger warnings for domestic abuse
Summary: Kristen contemplates school.


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Title: Hallowe'en
Canon: Battle For the Sun
Colors: Harvest Gold 7 (pumpkins), Fire Opal 5 (ravenous), Mouse Grey 26 (he's a tramp, he's a rover)
Characters: Cyprian Corvo, Cliff Knight, Jaida Ames
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 692
Summary: Cyprian still hates autumn, and Jaida loves genocide.
Note: Looked over by isana, who has my thanks.

( I give you the means to save yourself. )

Title: Watcher in the Woods
Canon: The Lethean Glamour
Colors: Harvest Gold 5 (orange and gold), Sulphur 1 (snake)
Style: Illustration, charcoal
Character: Helene Mossing
Rating: G
Summary: Yes, there are demons in the Redwood.

( So don't go out tonight, it's bound to take your life )

Title: The Only Exception
Canon: Battle For the Sun
Colors: Harvest Gold 6 (asters), Mouse Grey 25 (you can learn a lot of things from the flowers), Alice Blue 23 (it would be so nice if something made sense for a change)
Style: miniature
Character/s: Cyprian Corvo, an aster
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: There's just something about asters that isn't right.
Note: Looked over by isana , who has my thanks. Please excuse me as I rush to finish the Harvest Gold challenge.

( They communicated in shocks of emotion and impression and spectral color. )

Title: Ghosts
Canon: The Lethean Glamour
Colors: Harvest Gold 9 (fall back), Fire Opal 10 (fury), Celestial Blue 10 (dearly departed)
Supplies/Styles: Paint-by-numbers (the few lives Helene regretted taking), charcoal, miniature collection, canvas (1, 3, 4, and 5)
Characters: Helene Mossing and a chorus of victims
Word count: 500 (excluding headers)
Rating/Warnings: PG-13, with warnings for violence including violence against children
Summary: Helene and the five kills that left an aftertaste almost like regret.
Notes: Beta read by isana  , who has my thanks!

( Killing wasn't meant to feel like a crime. )

Title: Spark
Canon: Down By the Water
Colors: Harvest Gold 13 (equinox), Fire Opal 7 (lusting after), Mouse Grey 18 (be prepared)
Supply: Canvas (Annie and Clyde are still in their teens)
Characters: Annie Tark, Clyde Jones
Rating: PG-13 (underage drinking)
Word Count: 700
Summary: Annie has something to discuss.

( 'What do you say to that? I will let them think me docile and subservient while I burn their empire down around their golden, gilded ankles.' )

Title: Masters of the Universe
Canon: Down By the Water
Colors: Harvest Gold 1 (falling leaves), Fire Opal 2 (insatiable), Mouse Grey 3 (are you in or out)
Supplies: charcoal (Caius Wray at the very least), canvas (takes place four months before Jemesk loses his memory), pastels (family)
Characters: John Hardy (the Smoking Faeborn), Armand Carron, Caius Wray, Patriarch Errol Wells
Rating: PG
Word count: 1119
Summary: The shadowy elite of New Kaddar meet under a gaslight to discuss the fate of the nation.
Notes: Beta read by isana.

( There had been a time when he would have been happy to mingle with friends, when his business was not all that was keeping him alive; but this was not that time, and time had proven his fellows no friends. )

Title: The Shadows of My Bad Bones
Canon: Battle For the Sun
Colors: Harvest Gold 15 (nothing gold can stay), Sulphur 7 (deceiver), Alice Blue 1 (we're all mad here)
Style/supplies: mixed media, canvas (Ragnar is under 18 in the first 4-5 sections), charcoal, pastels (first fight)
Characters: Ragnar Merridan, Martin Merridan, Nadya Ericksdottir, Mashiro Yuki
Rating: PG-13, with warnings for child abuse, possible disproportionate revenge, violence, and general awfulness.
Summary: Ragnar Merridan, the man who was not really a man, in 13 songs. Beta read by isana, who has my thanks.
Note: Beware the inclusion of Tom Waits, who some people re-he-eally don't like. If he's not your bag, remember to delete his song.

( 'I have inspired more worthy warriors to take up arms in months than his propaganda has in years. And also you, I suppose. A shame.' )

Title: Dawn Rising From the Faindown at Dusk
Canon: Down By the Water
Colors: Alice Blue 22 (I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more), Mouse Grey 14 (second star to the right), Fire Opal 16 (and got no peace)
Style/Supply: Illustration, canvas (the night Dawn was killed)
Character: Dawn Billingslea-Graymarch, various and sundry souls
Rating: PG (blood)
Summary: Dawn returns to New Kaddar as a ghost.

( But I will find you still. )