Rainbow Fiction

Author: Kat
Title: Gifts
Story: In the Heart
Colors: White 8 (whitewashed), hills of Iowa 8 (I was out here listening all the time.)
Supplies and Materials: Pastels (this challenge, Secret Santa gift exchange), miniature collection, bichromatic, seed beads, oils (black is the new black), modeling clay (Is there a writer who inspires you?).
Word Count: 300
Rating: PG
Summary: How could Lorraine help herself>
Warnings: adultery and some domestic emotional abuse
Notes: Last bichromatic!

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Author: Kat
Title: Independence
Story: In the Heart
Colors: White 2 (white picket fence), hills of Iowa 12 (God looks like a guidance counselor.)
Supplies and Materials: Pastels (this challenge, ruining the holiday dinner), bichromatic, stain ("Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Jung), brush (flapdoodle),
Word Count: 729
Rating: PG
Summary: A woman's place is nobody's business but her own.
Warnings: minor sexism.
Notes: So Joy has a lot more relatives than I thought.

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Author: Kat
Title: Stockings
Story: In the Heart
Colors: White 6 (red, white, and blue), hills of Iowa 5 (And if we want a god we had to follow, follow him down.), lapis lazuli 4 (yarn) with serpentine's paint-by-numbers (learning to knit can't be that hard can it?)
Supplies and Materials: Seed beads, acrylic (distrust), glitter ("Sometimes you just have to try, even though you know it won't work." – Junot Diaz), glue (You're approaching the end of the road, but you are confident that another route will soon appear to take you in a different direction. In fact, you have been eagerly anticipating this change and now that it's almost here, it's quite irritating that you're still dealing with the old stuff rather than pushing off into new territory.), bichromatic, pastels (Putting up the stockings)
Word Count: 200
Rating: PG
Summary: Knitting the Christmas stockings was a bad idea.
Warnings: very brief mention of infertility, swearing
Notes: none.

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Author: Kat
Title: Winter
Story: In the Heart
Colors: White 4 (the white album), Hills of Iowa 4 (It wasn't worth the pain my death would cost so I was not lost or found.)
Supplies and Materials: Canvas, miniature collection, fabric (this), stickers (A turtle headache is something you get when you wake up in the morning but want to go back to sleep, so you pull the duvet over your head. It's caused by a build-up of carbon dioxide and an inadequate supply of oxygen.), pastels (this challenge, overly bundled up for the weather), bichromatic.
Word Count: 300
Rating: PG
Warnings: hints of suicidal ideation.
Notes: none.

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Author: Kat
Title: Special
Story: In the Heart
Colors: White 13 (white wine), Hills of Iowa 10 (I was running out of time and one liners.)
Supplies and Materials: Pastels (this challenge: watching holiday specials), miniature, bichromatic
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Ahava's going to miss this.
Warnings: none.
Notes: Takes place about six months before Duncan's wedding. One of these days I should figure out what he looks like.

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Author: Kat
Title: Skate
Story: In the Heart
Colors: White 14 (as white as snow), Hills of Iowa 13 (I'm just trying to put the atom back together.)
Supplies and Materials: Fingerpainting (second person), pastels (this challenge), miniature, canvas, seed beads, modeling clay (Winter Wonderland), fabric (this), bichromatic
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Sometimes it overwhelms you.
Warnings: none.
Notes: Personal challenge. It would've been fluff but I'm not feeling too hot.

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Author: Kat
Title: freedom
Story: In the Heart -- Framed AU
Colors: White 9 (white rain), hills of Iowa 6 (Well I love the way the world is your garden and you plant your seeds and you let them grow.)
Supplies and Materials: Eraser (Framed AU), miniature, brush (quixotic), oils ("I had strings, but now I'm free"), chalk (this image), beading wire (this image), glitter (this image), pastels (free), bichromatic
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: Lily and Meriel.
Warnings: none.
Notes: This AU isn't all bad. Also, this Lily is not Gina's ex, but Summer's daughter.

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Author: Kat
Title: Heartbeat
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: White 1 (white noise), hills of Iowa 11 (I have lost to February.)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, acrylic (Your heartbeat), feathers (Your character's partner doesn't love them anymore.), yarn (this picture), beading wire (this picture), glue (Although you may be screaming on the inside, it's to your advantage to maintain your gracious manners on the outside.)
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Heartbreak.
Warnings: none.
Notes: I have no idea who these people are.

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