Rainbow Fiction

Author: Kat
Title: Welcome to the Family
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Stars and stripes 6 (“Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.”)
Supplies and Materials: Frame, brush (gamut), fabric (family), glitter (trouble), glue (There's no reason to fuel a melodrama that evolves from an all-or-nothing strategy. Minimize the internal tug-of-war by finding a middle path that doesn't go to extremes.), novelty beads (this gif).
Word Count: 723
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Felipe meets the family.
Warnings: homicidal language.
Notes: It occurred to me that I never put the introductory pieces up here. So...

( Welcome to the Family )

Author: Kat
Title: Gratitude
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Dirt brown 18 (Plough), cerise 15 (Thanks for what you do anyway), stars and stripes 2 (“If I had a dime for everytime that I was wrong, I'd be broke.”)
Supplies and Materials: Bichromatic (dirt brown and cerise), canvas (Gina is about seven), glue (Speaking from your heart can be a tricky maneuver, but you are better off acknowledging your emotions), novelty beads (considering the universe).
Word Count: 150
Rating: G
Summary: Robert and his family.
Warnings: none.
Notes: Memefill for justice_turtle.

( Gratitude )

Author: Kat
Title: fascinated, hypnotized
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Stars and stripes 22 (“In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.”), dirt brown 6 (From the earth), cerise 21 (Inspiration)
Supplies and Materials: Fingerpainting (double etheree/first person), bichromatic (dirt brown and cerise), chalk (a leaf's edge), brush (ensky), glitter (Listen), novelty beads (this picture), miniature, fabric (mushrooms).
Word Count: 71
Rating: PG
Summary: Jack watches the forest, and Felix watches Jack.
Warnings: none.
Notes: I'm about at the point of smushing these two together and making them kiss, I swear to God.

( fascinated, hypnotized )

Author: Kat
Title: Passing Notes
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Stars and stripes 5 (“Equations are the devil's sentences.”), glitter 19 (Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered. - Pal Joey), nile green 20 (Papyrus) with shadowsong's paint-by-numbers (Creativity is a prerequisite for successful notepassing in class)
Supplies and Materials: Canvas (Jack and Felix are in college), illustration, stickers (Emperor penguins can hold their breath for 15 minutes and dive 1,700 feet deep.), oils (at a loss for words), brush (acquiesce), novelty beads (Don't look at me, I just know stuff.).
Word Count: 697
Rating: G
Summary: Jack tries to help.
Warnings: none.
Notes: Written for a meme prompt that apparently I already wrote a fill for? Ah well. HEY SARA YOU GET TWO.

( Passing Notes )

Author: Kat
Title: Irresistably Contagious
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Summertime blues 4 (Stared at by the book you've been meaning to read.), stars and stripes 17 (“Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo!"), quill grey 11 (I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. - James Michener) with kana's paint-by-numbers (You once told me white is the full moon. You once told me blood is red. You told me blue is the endless sea. You also told me you loved me. And to accept these simple truths, just to accept them, my soul wishes, my soul longs, that my heart could).
Supplies and Materials: Fingerpainting (only two more first person to go), glue (you may receive more support than you expect), glitter ("Nothing can wear you out like caring about people." – S.E. Hinton), pastels (give and take), novelty beads (Letter to a teacher).
Word Count: 577
Rating: PG
Summary: It was Dickens' Christmas Carol.
Warnings: none? I don't think?
Notes: On the Lint Roller, dray asked Peter "Tell us of an experience that moved you to tears (especially if it was caused by a piece of media; a story, a play, a music experience, etc.) and tell us what you felt about it."

( Irresistably Contagious )

Author: Kat
Title: Heat
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Summertime blues 6 (Heat does strange things to people.), stars and stripes 24 (“Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.”)
Supplies and Materials: Fingerpainting (first persooooon), glue (You might be overwhelmed by an odd situation today when brainy Mercury aligns with crazy Uranus.), acrylic (University library), novelty beads (not doing that again).
Word Count: 351
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Oh, hey, this is awkward.
Warnings: none.
Notes: Dray asked Jake on the Lint Roller, "Tell us about the hottest date (or tryst or experience-in-general) you ever had." I wussed out on the porn, but you try writing first-person porn with a guy who won't say sexy words. At all.

( Heat )

Author: Kat
Title: Lies
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Summertime blues 8 (I thought I could trust you.), stars and stripes 14 (“I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.”), quill grey 13 (Words - so innocent and powerless as they are... how potent for good and evil they become. - Nathaniel Hawthorne) with Kana's paint-by-numbers (If knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is a crime, and crime never pays… Does knowledge, in the end, leave you broken?)
Supplies and Materials: Fingerpainting (first persooooon), stain (Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley), glitter (system), pastels (truth), novelty beads (They'd find out/There's so much more to me - (from "One Jump Ahead (Reprise)" from Disney's Aladdin)).
Word Count: 422
Rating: PG
Summary: So the thing is, I lie a lot.
Warnings: parental death.
Notes: Feline_scribe asked Lars on the Lint Roller "What could drastically change a part of your life, or a relationship you have, if this 'thing/situation/fact/truth' was discovered?"

( Lies )

Author: Kat
Title: Wolves
Story: In the Heart -- Fairy Tale AU
Colors: Stars and stripes 15 (“Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.”)
Supplies and Materials: Graffiti (Midsummer Night's Dream prompt), eraser (Fairy Tale AU), canvas, miniature collection, modeling clay (mom), novelty beads (Gail don't do what fairy tales say).
Word Count: 529
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Gail has always lived with wolves.
Warnings: violent death of an animal
Notes: I'm working out everyone's fairy tales. Apparently Gail is Little Red Riding Hood.

( Wolves )

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 )

Author: Kat
Title: Fellowship
Story: In the Heart - Urban Fantasy AU
Colors: Stars and stripes 16 (“I don't trust children. They're here to replace us.”)
Supplies and Materials: Eraser (Urban Fantasy), graffiti (Midsummer Night's Dream prompt), frame, seed beads (I guess Gina and Ivy are around somewhere), oils (harvest festivals), glitter (pride), pastels (a stranger), novelty beads (a little kid by himself).
Word Count: 680
Rating: PG for one cussword.
Summary: Ash gets bothered by a child.
Warnings: none.
Notes: So Leah's empathetic. Didn't know that.

( Fellowship )