Rainbow Fiction

Author: Kat
Title: Salted Earth
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Electric purple 12 (Your former glories and all the stories/Dragged and washed with eager hands/But ohh oh your city lies in dust, my friend (Siouxsie & The Banshees- Cities in Dust)) with SWL's paint-by-numbers (Miranda. Crushes. Someone.), cotton candy 8 (climbing trees) with blossom's paint-by-numbers (Miranda thinks about her life as she moves up the corporate ladder), old lace 10 (However, girls were just as obstinate then as they are now, and as they always will be.) with Sara's paint-by-numbers (Miranda always gets the job done.).
Supplies and Materials: Glue (It really shouldn't be so complicated to just let someone know how you feel. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to express yourself today, prompting others to think you're not being very sincere at all.), oils (life on the line), stain (I've accepted that I'm not going to die of natural causes, [but] getting killed 'cuz you're naturally a dick seems like natural causes to me. - Randy K. Milholland), novelty beads (this image), pastels (vengeance).
Word Count: 952
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It all comes back to Andrew Dalton.
Warnings: mentioned drug use, sexual harassment, minors having sex, and a blink and miss it mention of unwanted sexual activity (in the midst of otherwise consensual sexual activity. Plus inherent misogyny and racism.
Notes: LAST OF ALL OF THESE AND I HAVE DEFEATED CLOISONNISM WITH ONE MINUTE TO SPARE. HA.

( Salted Earth )

Author: Kat
Title: be ok
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Cotton candy 16 (rolling down the hill) with blossom's paint-by-numbers (Olivia has a bad day; Jake helps her with it the best way he can.), old lace 5 (It is pretty and it is quaint, but it is very self-consciously so.) with Sara's paint-by-numbers (Someone's mask slips.)
Supplies and Materials: Novelty beads (take a deep breath).
Word Count: 460
Rating: PG
Summary: Olivia has a rough day, and Jake helps. A little, but it's help.
Warnings: depiction of depression.
Notes: It's Olivia and Jake day, apparently. Except for the Shine Like It Does stuff coming up. And Michael. Fuck yeah Michael.

( be ok )

Author: Kat
Title: Beauty
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Kohl saturation with old lace 19 (Beauty is perhaps a dangerous possession.) with Sara's paint-by-numbers (People underestimate Gina. It comes in useful.)
Supplies and Materials: Canvas (Gina's childhood), miniature collection, brush (comely), oils (conditional love), glitter (familiar), novelty beads (every time).
Word Count: 914
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Gina and her beauty.
Warnings: blink and miss it mentions of street harassment and emotional abuse
Notes: This... didn't quite go as I wanted it to.

( Beauty )

Author: Kat
Title: Protection
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Old lace 7 (I hope you dear young people will never realize how very wicked the world is.) with Sara's paint-by-numbers (Gail knows she can't always protect her kids from the world.)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, brush (peccant), feathers (The girl who disappears from the pool/will never return. A woman will return,/looking for the girl she was.).
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: If Gail could change her children, she might.
Warnings: none
Notes: Yeah, this... yeah.

( Protection )

Author: Kat
Title: In the dark.
Story: In the Heart -- EPIC PIRATE AU
Colors: Old lace 9 (One might do something that is considered definitely wrong--that is considered a crime, even, for a very good and sufficient reason.) with Sara's paint-by-numbers (EPIC PIRATE AU: Ivy may be a pirate, but she still has standards.)
Supplies and Materials: Eraser (epic pirate AU), fabric (this picture), modeling clay (weariness), chalk (a child clinging to her father), pastels (outnumbered), novelty beads (I thought we were both involved/I thought we were two rights doing wrong/But suddenly I'm all alone/I'm holding something we both own/And I'm not sure I fired this smoking gun. - "I'll Be Guilty", World Without Sundays).
Word Count: 1027
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The world is changing, and people do terrible things.
Warnings: slavery, the effects, and the aftereffects of it, mention of rape and violent death.
Notes: Yes, that's Andy.

( In the Dark )

Author: Kat
Title: Children
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Xanadu 2 (land of milk and honey), old lace 11 (There is nothing that you can tell me about people's minds that would astonish or surprise me.) with Sarah's paint-by-numbers (Someone thinks they've seen it all. Turns out they haven't.).
Supplies and Materials: Frame, miniature, glue (Your lighthearted sense of humor relieves some of the stress in the immediate moment, but it doesn't fix the underlying cause.), glitter (apology), novelty beads (Vanilla noir).
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Yes, Gina, the Lord is testing you.
Warnings: none.
Notes: Thanks to Isana for prompting this.

( Children )

Title: No Regrets
Story: In the Heart -- Regency AU
Colors: Transparent 14 (Sunrise), old lace 12 (When people say things behind your back there is nothing you can refute or deny, and the rumors go on growing and growing, and no one can stop them.) with Sara's paint-by-numbers (She will beat the rumors. She won't let them destroy her.)
Supplies and Materials: Eraser (Regency AU), canvas, brush (encumber), chalk (a child spotlighted by sunlight), glitter (- "You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." – Johnny Cash), novelty beads (If they hurt you/They hurt me too/So we'll rise up/Won't stop (from "All About Us" by Tatu)).
Word Count: 120
Rating: PG
Summary: Gail won't lie down.
Warnings: sexist slur.
Notes: A Spenserian sonnet for your delectation and delight.

( No Regrets )

Author: Kat
Title: fly
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Transparent 6 (Bird), old lace 17 (The most nervous people are far more brave than one really thinks they are.) with Sara's paint-by-numbers (Charlotte will make it on her own.)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, novelty beads (you're hired), brush (efflorescence), glitter (build).
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Charlotte is ready.
Warnings: none.
Notes: You know how some stories just kinda write themselves?

( fly )

Author: Kat
Title: Date Night
Story: In the Heart - Sociopathic Besties AU
Colors: Electric purple 3 (If I were kind and adoring/How would that be?/Very boring (Adam Ant- Desperate But Not Serious)) with SWL's paint-by-numbers (Sociopath Aaron could almost say he's enjoying this... Date, is it?), old lace 18 (Of course, a lot of people are stupid. And stupid people get found out, whatever they do. But there are quite a number of people who aren't stupid, and one shudders to think of what they might accomplish unless they had very strongly rooted principles.) with Sara's paint-by-numbers (Sociopath!Aaron: No one ever suspects.)
Supplies and Materials: Eraser (Sociopathic Besties), novelty beads (Deception point)
Word Count: 319
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Aaron goes on a date.
Warnings: emotional abuse
Notes: So, yeah, this happened. Canon!Aaron actually did date Jill Temple, but not for very long.

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Author: Kat
Title: home sweet home
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Transparent 23 (Atmosphere), bittersweet 1 (growing apart), old lace 3 (There are certain places imbued and saturated with good or evil influences which can make their power felt.) with sara's paint-by-numbers (This place always makes Danny feel on edge.).
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, canvas (Danny is about twenty), chalk (this picture), novelty beads (crawl inside a bottle)
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Danny on her hometown.
Warnings: brief reference to recreational drug use.
Notes: none.

( home sweet home )