31_Days Prompts 2005;

31_days prompts;

1 August 2005: Be indomitable, o my heart
2 August 2005: A school of morality
3 August 2005: Like Hamlet
4 August 2005: She left her life on Monday
5 August 2005: A boy
6 August 2005: To the lords and ladies of Byzantium
7 August 2005: Twiggy vs. James Bond
8 August 2005: You shimmer like words I barely hear
9 August 2005: Anno mirabilis (Year of Wonders)
10 August 2005: Way of difference
11 August 2005: I claim proud kinship with your race and blood
12 August 2005: Man or astroman
13 August 2005: I am already king
14 August 2005: All night long I've held your hand
15 August 2005: Air and stars
16 August 2005: Kingdom of the mad
17 August 2005: I am inside someone who hates me
18 August 2005: Spring letters and spring tears
19 August 2005: At most, flowers
20 August 2005: Alhambra
21 August 2005: Who would take us to be women?
22 August 2005: This red, red moon
23 August 2005: Rose of memory, rose of forgetfulness
24 August 2005. I am waylaid by Beauty
25 August 2005: The heart beats on and will not stop
26 August 2005: Souls are like armed battalions
27 August 2005: Wait for me whenever darkness falls
28 August 2005: Gilgamesh
29 August 2005: Hatred is holy
30 August 2005: I am known to night and horses and the desert
31 August 2005: Tell me, beloved rarity/tell me, rare love/where are you now?

1 September 2005: Here we are
2 September 2005: Cat
3 September 2005: Being as yet but a girl
4 September 2005: I wish
5 September 2005: A winter morning just like any other
6 September 2005: Hogwarts: A Life
7 September 2005: Herr doktor
8 September 2005: Twin stars
9 September 2005: The new exotic
10 September 2005: When I see your heavens
11 September 2005: A guise of gentle words
12 September 2005: Dear Confucius
13 September 2005: Go west
14 September 2005: On friendship
15 September 2005: Your eyes closed
16 September 2005: Older ghosts
17 September 2005: Scenes from the life of a double monster
18 September 2005: Arrangement in black and gold
19 September 2005: Dante in hell
20 September 2005: Chinatown fiction
21 September 2005: A secret unlit room
22 September 2005: The observed observer
23 September 2005: To Aurora, not to hurry
24 September 2005: Almost gothic
25 September 2005: What we had I cannot even say
26 September 2005: Loneliness and desire
27 September 2005: Chasing the metaphysical express
28 September 2005: Lady Madonna
29 September 2005: Thoughts of a dying atheist [WIP; Prince of Tennis, girl!OT5]
30 September 2005: Exeunt omnes

1 October 2005: A screaming comes across the sky
2 October 2005: Fortuna
3 October 2005: When angels speak of love
4 October 2005: Why do you sleep with girls?
5 October 2005: 3rd measurement in C
6 October 2005: Late Night Betty
7 October 2005: Fly, vultures, fly
8 October 2005: Francis Elena
9 October 2005: Scholars and gentlemen
10 October 2005: Astronomy domine
11 October 2005: I know how furiously your heart is beating
12 October 2005: Into the valley of dying stars
13 October 2005: Baghdad sky
14 October 2005: The alternation of generations
15 October 2005: Night: a nightmare
16 October 2005: Milan, Japan
17 October 2005: Tea theory; good tea is always like beauty
18 October 2005: Tao
19 October 2005: Birds in your garden
20 October 2005: A spy of the old school
21 October 2005: Son vent
22 October 2005: Jesus etc
23 October 2005: La primavera
24 October 2005: The pavilions of love and the tents of war
25 October 2005: Coca neon kamera sutra
26 October 2005: Lover/fighter
27 October 2005: Cloud, castle, lake
28 October 2005: Miss Machine
29 October 2005: Evensong
30 October 2005: This world my prison
31 October 2005: Thus with a kisse I die

1 November 2005: Things you've never seen
2 November 2005: Life imitating art imitating life
3 November 2005: The story of a flower that has made men mad
4 November 2005: Why I'm not where you are
5 November 2005: A series of unlikely but significant events
6 November 2005: Notes on the revelation of an unknown dissident
7 November 2005: Gloss on a decision of the council of Nicea
8 November 2005: Lost to the crush of anonymity
9 November 2005: An electric Michelangelo [WIP; Prince of Tennis, Eraser]
10 November 2005: The brightest heaven of invention
11 November 2005: Life in the subjunctive case
12 November 2005: A kiss, and the end of the world
13 November 2005: Biochemistry as an art for aliens
14 November 2005: Shedding light on fire
15 November 2005: A travelogue for exiles
16 November 2005: Wilful creatures
17 November 2005: Dear love, I've never had to write a letter like this
18 November 2005: Bring you to your knees
19 November 2005: The solemn geography of human limits
20 November 2005: Hope not built on blindness
21 November 2005: The real world is out there somewhere
22 November 2005: I dwell with a strangely aching heart
23 November 2005: Still the blood in your veins
24 November 2005: Domestic moments among the exquisite dead
25 November 2005: Riot on an empty street
26 November 2005: She will remember his heart
27 November 2005: And the feeble brain scrambles desperately to translate
28 November 2005: Visions of Damascus
29 November 2005: My dear lady disdain
30 November 2005: This is the house of your desire

1 December 2005: E come vivo? [And how do I live? (from La Bohème, "Che gelida manina")]
2 December 2005: Their days are like grass
3 December 2005: A delicate child of life
4 December 2005: Like seven stone statues
5 December 2005: The boy born with no father
6 December 2005: At the very hub of systems
7 December 2005: You're the swingingest thing [WIP; Prince of Tennis, OT5]
8 December 2005: Imaginary ordinary
9 December 2005: Perché un di m'hai sorriso [Because one day you smiled at me (from Turandot, "Gira la cote")]
10 December 2005: The most ill-regulated memory
11 December 2005: The sound of droned sea song
12 December 2005: A drop of lantern oil
13 December 2005: Of un-kissed kisses [WIP; Prince of Tennis, OT5]
14 December 2005: Enchantment passing through
15 December 2005: Its breath kindles coals
16 December 2005: This is how we walk on the moon
17 December 2005: Meine Tochter nimmermehr [My daughter nevermore (from Die Zauberflöte, "Der Holle Rache")]
18 December 2005: Art is far feebler than Necessity
19 December 2005: The anatomy of a Minotaur
20 December 2005: Scylla and Charybdis (link)
21 December 2005: This place that was no place
22 December 2005: Like yellow parchment is his skin
23 December 2005: What's the use of feet
24 December 2005: Seule en ce lieu sauvage [Alone in this savage place (from Carmen, "Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante")]
25 December 2005: The tale is the map that is the territory [WIP; Prince of Tennis]
26 December 2005: When I walk crazy, I walk right
27 December 2005: Three darts of mistletoe
28 December 2005: Furnished with the dusty wind
29 December 2005: Here they sang about tomorrow
30 December 2005: Your lips are like a crimson thread
31 December 2005: Time travel is lonely

COMPLETED: 44/153 (28.76%)

31_Days Prompts 2006;

31_days prompts;


1 January 2006. Don't go (girls & boys)
2 January 2006. Battle without honor or humanity
3 January 2006. She's in fashion
4 January 2006. No good advice
5 January 2006. Pagan poetry
6 January 2006. Valsa de Eurydice / Samba de Orfeu [Waltz of Eurydice / Samba of Orpheus]
7 January 2006. Cactus
8 January 2006. Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen [Pure reason must never win] (lyrics)
9 January 2006. All this useless beauty
10 January 2006. Private investigations
11 January 2006. Country of the wolves
12 January 2006. What the snowman learned about love [WIP; Prince of Tennis, OT5]
13 January 2006. A red letter day
14 January 2006. Me plus one
15 January 2006. Cosmic dare (pretty with a pistol)
16 January 2006. Your cover's blown
17 January 2006. Gold for the price of silver
18 January 2006. Power out (neighborhood #3)
19 January 2006. Losing my edge
20 January 2006. Cyberabad
21 January 2006. Joy in repetition
22 January 2006. Dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts
23 January 2006. Lost in the supermarket
24 January 2006. Elegy of armistice (lyrics)
25 January 2006. From the edge of the deep green sea
26 January 2006. Cavaleiro monge [Monastic knight ("Cabalo de Sombra, Cavaleiro Monge" by Fernando Pessoa)] (lyrics).
27 January 2006. I'm your villain
28 January 2006. Hallelujah / True faith
29 January 2006. Southern belles in London sing
30 January 2006. Radical dreamers (without taking the jewel)
31 January 2006. ??????? [If I could live with you]

1 February 2006: long lost fables
2 February 2006: child found crying in the winter tree
3 February 2006: lemongrass summer
4 February 2006: drowned fields
5 February 2006: midnight market
6 February 2006: the lady that found the moon
7 February 2006: cross my palm with silver, I cannot tell a lie
8 February 2006: the concubine's laughter
9 February 2006: mad in the teahouse
10 February 2006: pick my love up with chopsticks
11 February 2006: at the sight of the ki-lin
12 February 2006: the chrysanthemum promise
13 February 2006: a killing dance
14 February 2006: 4
15 February 2006: embroider me with tears
16 February 2006: ghost bride
17 February 2006: unbound hair
18 February 2006: bone flute
19 February 2006: the fairy's wish/demise
20 February 2006: the blood that drips from heaven
21 February 2006: a thousand li
22 February 2006: the ox's kindness
23 February 2006: a bridge of magpies
24 February 2006: candlelight under the waters
25 February 2006: the sea king's palace
26 February 2006: tricked fox
27 February 2006: the filial child
28 February 2006: return my heart when I am dead

07. cross my palm with silver, I cannot tell a lie
It's more of a gypsy thing than an actual wuxia theme, but it deals with fortunetelling on the streets, usually.

08. the concubine's laughter.
It's an old myth. The Emperor made his favourite concubine his wife, but she never smiled. He took her on a trip and she saw signal fires being ignited and began to laugh. People thought that they were being summoned to war, and thus came, but were angry that the fires were being ignited for nothing. As time passed, the Emperor discovered that his Empress would never laugh unless the signal fires were lighted, and it got to a point where when invaders really DID come and the fires were ignited, the people did not gather together and thus China was conquered.

11. at the sight of the ki-lin.
Confucius' mother was said to have been visited by the ki-lin, the Chinese version of the unicorn. She was told that her son would grow up to be a king among men, but without a throne. Generally speaking, the ki-lin is said to be a good omen and would appear to select people on rare occasions.

12. the chrysanthemum promise & 21. a thousand li
"The Chrysanthemum Promise" is the name of a folktale. I know there's a Korean version of it, and I think there's a Chinese one as well, though the variations are pretty similar, I believe. The story goes: a scholar falls gravely ill while in the Capital, and is nursed back to health by a fellow scholar and friend. He recovers, but not long after, is summoned back to his home province and must leave. Before his departure, the friends make a promise to meet again one year later in the Capital.
One year later, the friend prepares for this meeting, laying out a feast and waiting. The scholar finally appears in the hours before morning, and reunited at last, they speak together. As dawn approaches, however, the scholar must take his leave again, and even as the morning light falls on them, the friend realises that he is a spirit. He tells his friend that caught up in the affairs of his home province, he had forgotten of their promise, and remembered only on the night itself. With no other way to travel a thousand li ('li' is a way of measuring distance) in a single night and keep his vow, he had slain himself on his sword, that his spirit may keep his promise for him.

14. 4
The number 4 in Chinese sounds very similar phonetically to the word "death." It's considered a bad luck number.

19. the fairy's wish/demise
The Jade Emperor issued an edict in Heaven that no one may fall in love, and that the punishment for falling and acting on their love would end in death.

22. the ox's kindness
Again, several myths associated with this. In the story about the zodiac, the rat leaps onto the ox's back, which enables it to take first place. In the myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver, the ox tells the Cowherd to kill it so that the Cowherd could make a skin that would enable it to go to Heaven.

23. bridge of magpies
Related to the story of the Cowherd and Weaver, it is said that once a year, magpies would fly to Heaven and form a bridge so that the Cowherd and Weaver may meet

27. filial child
This is really a dimly remembered story from the depths of my childhood imagination, but I'm pretty sure this is a legitimate myth. XD It's the story of a wicked woman who was sent to the eighteenth level of hell for her ways, but her son, a pious monk and faithful son, descended into hell and said that he would take her place. They were both eventually released, and the mother was reformed.

28. return my heart when I am dead
As crazy as this one is, it's said that when someone dies, all their organs must be with them at the time of burial.

1 March 2006: Yes is a pleasant country
2 March 2006: Nothing false and possible
3 March 2006: A sunbeam's architecture; a mountain's heartbeat
4 March 2006: The truth to summer's lie
5 March 2006: A good universe next door
6 March 2006: Shall hate confound the wise? doubt blind the brave?
7 March 2006: Hate blows a bubble of despair
8 March 2006: I say no world can hold a you
9 March 2006: Nothing quite so least as truth
10 March 2006: Praising a forehead called the moon
11 March 2006: To fabricate unknown-ness
12 March 2006: Eternity's a five year plan
13 March 2006: To morning's beautiful friend, twilight
14 March 2006: His autumn's winter being summer's spring
15 March 2006: The silent whys of such a deathlessness
16 March 2006: The music of spring lives
17 March 2006: Eat of her voice
18 March 2006: God's terrible face
19 March 2006: The image of one fatal word
20 March 2006: Eyes which are really petals
21 March 2006: Frailer than most deep dreams
22 March 2006: Your body's whitest song
23 March 2006: The ragged meadow of my soul
24 March 2006: What could be more beautiful than these heroic happy dead?
25 March 2006: Bring forth your flowers and machinery
26 March 2006: She being brand new
27 March 2006: Nobody loses all the time; there is no excuse for May
28 March 2006: You of my heart; Spring is like a perhaps hand
29 March 2006: Accept all happiness from me
30 March 2006: Into the silver dawn
31 March 2006: Thy fingers make early flowers of all things; to be thy lips is a sweet thing

1 April 2006: Dinner for three*
2 April 2006: I am more land than water*
3 April 2006: Etc.*
4 April 2006: When in doubt, gallop!*
5 April 2006: Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls*
6 April 2006: Mad-lib communication*
7 April 2006: And Venus loved Mars*
8 April 2006: The world through my feet*
9 April 2006: Hunting with cats*
10 April 2006: We used to be friends, a long time ago*
11 April 2006: Meaningful violence*
12 April 2006: The apple does fall far from the tree*
13 April 2006: When are you going to love you as much as I do?*
14 April 2006: Caught in a catch-22*
15 April 2006: Beep beep yeah!*
16 April 2006: I will show you fear in a handful of dust
17 April 2006: Dollar diplomacy
18 April 2006: (in parenthesis)
19 April 2006: Strangers in the dark
20 April 2006: Into every young man's bedroom you gave it up
21 April 2006: The rain my drink*
22 April 2006: Of cabbages and kings*
23 April 2006: Better be unpredictable*
24 April 2006: Shall we dance?*
25 April 2006: Like reading Proust in Chinese*
26 April 2006: Clueless*
27 April 2006: You can total what I hold dear*
28 April 2006: On an ever spinning wheel*
29 April 2006: Rainbows, all of them*
30 April 2006: Some like it hot*

* - Broken Links

1 May 2006 - It don't go nowhere but damnation
2 May 2006 - And it's one for the morning glory
3 May 2006 - about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters
4 May 2006 - Dealing futures from the deck of swords
5 May 2006 - What do you think is the moral of the story?
6 May 2006 - Your masterful hand with whip or sword
7 May 2006 - Came out of their trance into time again
8 May 2006 - she has a brother who believes in hope
9 May 2006 - Watch your chance and hit him with a brick.
10 May 2006 - the night grows darker yet
11 May 2006 - I am the spirit that denieth all things
12 May 2006 - Open, locks, to the Human's hand
13 May 2006 - Love passed into the House of Lust
14 May 2006 - the finely detailed insanity you've come to expect
15 May 2006 - a little taste of power and a shiny uniform
16 May 2006 - with infinite regret but negligible hesitation
17 May 2006 - The coldest eyes and the cruellest hands
18 May 2006 - Madame was very particular about her bedchambers
19 May 2006 - Who's reflected in the broken glass?
20 May 2006 - I am the right hand of vengeance
21 May 2006 - I chose to do wrong in the hope that right might come.
22 May 2006 - in the gate of broken seals
23 May 2006 - sooner or later he brings up the Templars
24 May 2006 - Discretion, I said, was not the same as lying
25 May 2006 - If God must take, she thought, let him take all...
26 May 2006 - We only come to sleep, we only come to dream
27 May 2006 - I am the lover whom you will betray
28 May 2006 - One does not say must to princes.
29 May 2006 - And the white light can be broken.
30 May 2006 - The dose makes the poison.
31 May 2006 - There are traces of blood in a fairy tale.

1 June 2006. wind chimes moved by solar winds
2 June 2006. in search of me
3 June 2006. touch of moonlight madness
4 June 2006. the book of questions [from the poetry of Pablo Neruda]
5 June 2006. a single soul dwelling in two bodies [part of famous quotes from Aristotle]
6 June 2006. the world is mine
7 June 2006. numbers game
8 June 2006. love me, love my dog
9 June 2006. in the sea
10 June 2006. love until it hurts
11 June 2006. shoot to kill
12 June 2006. kissing number
13 June 2006. a sound not fit for human ears
14 June 2006. stone shadows
15 June 2006. shaved ice, slow fan, summer heat
16 June 2006. like a heart that stumbles into knowledge
17 June 2006. a waking dream
18 June 2006. snow on the mountains, flowers in the fields
19 June 2006. frozen watermelons
20 June 2006. snow and ink
21 June 2006. ring of wild roses
22 June 2006. silhouette of your wings
23 June 2006. Love, unconquered in the fight [from Antigone by Sophocles]
24 June 2006. in fire and in blood [from the poetry of Pablo Neruda]
25 June 2006. messages in the sand
26 June 2006. night of exile
27 June 2006. secret story
28 June 2006. until our souls disappear
29 June 2006. a day to live and die
30 June 2006. moon animals

1 July 2006: Calling all avenging angels
2 July 2006: I got my secret weapon
3 July 2006: This is a mystery not to be solved
4 July 2006: A vision to illuminate your mind
5 July 2006: You're my front-page story
6 July 2006: You will succumb to me
7 July 2006: Racism in among future kings can only lead to no good
8 July 2006: Ignoring your conscience allows you to justify everything
9 July 2006: Am I encased in this devil's plan?
10 July 2006: The woman in me shouts out
11 July 2006: Put away my black book
12 July 2006: The censorship of my skin
13 July 2006: This pain in our hearts
14 July 2006: I can’t stop hungering for otherness
15 July 2006: God made the distance between me and you
16 July 2006: Born through the winds of time
17 July 2006: All the dreams sing their song
18 July 2006: Days of grass and sun
19 July 2006: To stand on the line of hope
20 July 2006: But if you've known love like the jokers before
21 July 2006: Treat him like a lady
22 July 2006: I'll throw you to the floor
23 July 2006: Wait for other bedtime treats
24 July 2006: How does it feel when you're inside me?
25 July 2006: An electric love in her eyes
26 July 2006: Your companion of soul understanding
27 July 2006: There's something magic in the air
28 July 2006: To go where all the strange ones go
29 July 2006: Let the world around us fade
30 July 2006: Remember the old days
31 July 2006: The past is a well-closed book

1 August 2006: Disparagers of love, now hear my song.
2 August 2006: There is a palace, and the ruined wall/ Divides the sand, a very home of tears,/ And where love whispered of a thousand years/ The silken-footed caterpillars crawl.
3 August 2006: This is the turbulent sea of your night seething, cross over.
4 August 2006: Tell him who looks for heaven to run along to hell.
5 August 2006: Make up for that one: a courageous heart, a bare blade, and a long and/ yellow bow.
6 August 2006: Armed with love's weaponry he rides on beauty's steed.
7 August 2006: You would think that she is walking upon eggs and green bottles.
8 August 2006: To love is to kiss, to touch hand or arm or to send letters whose / spells are stronger than witchcraft. Love is nothing but this.
9 August 2006: I am he whom I love and he whom I love is I.
10 August 2006: Quick at your word, all skill, grace,/ He is, but for death his passion, flawless.
11 August 2006: Recalling a house and a lady, dismount where the winds cross.
12 August 2006: Listen to the shiver of wings at your side--it is my desire, and/ still, still, I am shaking with it.
13 August 2006: Believe me, moonlight is the stuff whereof/ My lady's limbs are made. I offer proof.
14 August 2006: And my grief at parting from you is like that of the turtle-dove,/ which brings pleasure to the hot listener, retired in a thickly-leaved/ tree from the heat of summer, like a singer behind a curtain.
15 August 2006: You recognize the fragrance of one you desire and a less obvious sadness.
16 August 2006: I go blindly,/ As if I am pursuing the beauty of something/ Before me but unclear.
17 August 2006: As for refined love -- let others claim it./ May God, instead, give me contentment.
18 August 2006: My heart is capable of every form:/ Pasture for deer, a monastery for monks,/ Temple for idols.
19 August 2006: Injustice calls to God for pardon; ask him to pardon your injustice.
20 August 2006: I have tasted the bitter and the sweet of affairs/ And walked over the rough and smooth path of days.
21 August 2006: Strange things they declared time would reveal in direful summer/ months.
22 August 2006: Sword tells more truth than books; its parting wisdom from vanity.
23 August 2006: The sun was a flower, the evening, crescent moons, the arrows were/ rain, and the swords were lightning flashes.
24 August 2006: So keep your silence, and know: This man, unless slain, is fated to die.
25 August 2006: May the morning clouds refresh you at this distance,/ and may abundant rains comfort you forever!
26 August 2006: Your place in my heart is the whole of my heart.
27 August 2006: Where now are kings and where/ are the men who passed this way before you?
28 August 2006: In sorrow to be here again, I am loving you.
29 August 2006: Coloured is the rose of spring, white the rose of December.
30 August 2006: How strange that we, perambulating dust, should be the vessels of/ eternal fire.
31 August 2006: Peace it is, till the rising of the dawn.

1 September 2006. and the hearts of all mankind can be embittered
2 September 2006. yours till hell freezes
3 September 2006. engineering consent
4 September 2006. objects reflected from the impassioned imagination
5 September 2006. between two worlds I do belong
6 September 2006. remember this day
7 September 2006. leapfrog technology
8 September 2006. the wild purple of the glowering sun
9 September 2006. represented by the phallic mother
10 September 2006. the flying redhead
11 September 2006. Prague Spring
12 September 2006. the inflexible, the irreconcilable, the stubborn
13 September 2006. I am following the enemy
14 September 2006. Orinda and Lucasia
15 September 2006. you and the piece are at the same point of unfolding
16 September 2006. a psychopathic god
17 September 2006. the dead of Stalingrad adjure us
18 September 2006. such is the bondage of folly
19 September 2006. relational aesthetics
20 September 2006. lettres de cachet
21 September 2006. Greece with its immortal glories
22 September 2006. between Cinderella or Kafka's Cockroach
23 September 2006. shed blood becomes a sea
24 September 2006. bioremediation
25 September 2006. as the looms on which men wove
26 September 2006. Game and set to you, Quicksilver
27 September 2006. the seductive degradation of knowledge
28 September 2006. a world order governed by rules
29 September 2006. immigrants and revolutionists
30 September 2006. beyond the sky

1 October 2006. coffee and a kick in the pants [WIP; Prince of Tennis, Eraser]
2 October 2006. hello darkness my old friend
3 October 2006. snow white rose red
4 October 2006. wherever this may find you
5 October 2006. swing low sweet chariot
6 October 2006. overwork
7 October 2006. a light called you
8 October 2006. worse than his bite
9 October 2006. every day is the end of the world
10 October 2006. suicide is painless
11 October 2006. take one and call me in the morning
12 October 2006. what you pay for
13 October 2006. feel my heart beat
14 October 2006. cure for the itch
15 October 2006. things I will regret
16 October 2006. you looked better on mySpace
17 October 2006. Jerusalem syndrome
18 October 2006. good cop, bad cop
19 October 2006. we'll go no more a-roving
20 October 2006. all the king's horses
21 October 2006. how many miles to Babylon?
22 October 2006. a dark and stormy night
23 October 2006. fairy tale ending
24 October 2006. it is the eclipse
25 October 2006. your unknown colour
26 October 2006. -- but I'm having your baby!!
27 October 2006. vade mecum
28 October 2006. jam tomorrow
29 October 2006. RTFM
30 October 2006. you might as well live
31 October 2006. what goes bump in the night


1. Way back when dinosaurs ruled the earth Meg was in college and one of her advisors had a sign that said, basically, TEA AND SYMPATHY IS SOLD OUT, NOW SERVING COFFEE AND A KICK IN THE PANTS.

02. Sound of Silence, by Simon and Garfunkel

17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_syndrome.

24. As the gate clanged open to let them out, they stepped into a wan and awful darkness. The June day had risen long ago, but only a pale and yellowish gleam lit the half-deserted streets. And it was bitterly cold and raining.
"What is the matter with the day?" said Wimsey. "Is the world coming to an end?"
"No," said Parker, "it is the eclipse."
--Dorothy Sayers, Unnatural Death

25. From COLORS by Utada Hikari. Actual quote goes something like "ima no watashi wa anata no shiranai iro".

27.vade mecum: a book or other thing that one regularly carries about.

28. "It's very good jam," said the Queen.
"Well, I don't want any to-day at any rate."
"You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said.
"The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday, but never jam to-day."
"It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day'," objected Alice.
"No, it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know."
-- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

29. Read The F(lipping) Manual

30. Resume
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
-- Dorothy Parker

1 November 2006. the heart asks pleasure first
2 November 2006. animal presence
3 November 2006. my pillow won't tell me where he has gone
4 November 2006. un-trodden ways
5 November 2006. white in the moon the long road lies
6 November 2006. come with me, under my coat
7 November 2006. sashimukau kokoro / the heart facing mine
8 November 2006. the hardcore and the gentle
9 November 2006. scattered pearls
10 November 2006. who rode in defence of your queendom
11 November 2006. wind-time, wolf-time
12 November 2006. little anodynes that deaden suffering
13 November 2006. could you endure such pain at any hand but hers?
14 November 2006. thieves in the temple
15 November 2006. old maid in the garret
16 November 2006. he wishes for the cloths of heaven
17 November 2006. I do not bite my thumb at you, sir
18 November 2006. bergamot and vetiver
19 November 2006. god's lioness
20 November 2006. the village awaits the new moon
21 November 2006. yumeji ni wa / on the path of dreams
22 November 2006. softness, compliance, forgiveness, grace [WIP; Prince of Tennis, girl!OT5]
23 November 2006. o love, be fed with apples while you may
24 November 2006. I bear your colours everywhere
25 November 2006. electric blue
26 November 2006. a thinking woman sleeps with monsters
27 November 2006. why should I leave you, to wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?
28 November 2006. father figure
29 November 2006. the heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking
30 November 2006. and the little ones chewed on the bones

1 December 2006. Happiness/ I want happiness
2 December 2006. 2gether/(Even though I didn’t know we’d come to be, it is like fate that we met)
3 December 2006. L'amour et la Morte/ And I don't know if it's a miracle or just chemicals in us
4 December 2006. Self Preservation/ But let me just stress we're both at our best in a tight spot
5 December 2006. Close to You/(The radio plays that song you like)
6 December 2006. Sweety/ (If it’s a day like today, we’ll likely meet)
7 December 2006. (You Drive Me) Crazy/ I just can’t sleep
8 December 2006. Laid/ The neighbours complain about the noises above
9 December 2006. U/ (I’ll give you the ring hidden in the heart of the red rose)
10 December 2006. Heartbeat/ Making me ashamed to feel the way that I do
11 December 2006. I Get a Kick Out of You/ I’m sure that if I took even one sniff, that would bore me terrifically too
12 December 2006. Space Age Love Song/ For a little while
13 December 2006. Paris/ (I threw away my wings)
14 December 2006. Elevator Love Letter/ It’s a nuclear show and the stars are gone
15 December 2006. I’d Rather Dance With You/ The only film I saw I didn’t like it at all
16 December 2006. Waterloo/ I feel like I win when I lose
17 December 2006. Cool/ Now you call me by my new last name
18 December 2006. In My Life/ There are places I remember
19 December 2006. I Want to Break Free/ It’s strange, but it’s true
20 December 2006. Know Your Chicken/ He said, “2 for 1 but 3 for 2.”
21 December 2006. Remind Me/ Where love that traveled far had found me
22 December 2006. Mad Dog/ Don't need a credit card to make my charge complete
23 December 2006. Fantaisie Sign/ C'est la seule fantaisie ici pour toujours (It is the only fantasy here forever)
24 December 2006. Married With Children/ Your music is shaite, it keeps me up all night
25 December 2006. Nice Work if You Can Get It/ And if you can get it, won’t you tell me how
26 December 2006. Not My Slave/ You’re missing the point, you’re not my little pet [WIP; Prince of Tennis, Purgatory]
27 December 2006. Desafinado/ Like the bossanova, love should swing
28 December 2006. Being Boring/ I never dreamt that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be
29 December 2006. Burnt out car/ A change of hair colour, Clairol Baby Blond
30 December 2006. Isobel/ In a forest pitch dark, glowed the tiniest spark
31 December 2006. Dream Attack/ I can't be owned by no one



COMPLETED: 67/365 (18.35%)

31_Days Prompts 2007;

31_days prompts;


1 January 2007. The date is long done.
2 January 2007. Going to bed early doesn't help much.
3 January 2007. ...Still can't remember the last time you slept.
4 January 2007. Keep away from my troubles, please.
5 January 2007. You're so messy. Please, marry me.
6 January 2007. Reaping nothing from this helps everything.
7 January 2007. Don't remember and don't repeat.
8 January 2007. "A Little Night Music"
9 January 2007. What child? There was no child.
10 January 2007. Meditate
11 January 2007. Farm Dog
12 January 2007. Stroke his fur, it feels really nice.
13 January 2007. Wine not found.
14 January 2007. Try again later.
15 January 2007. The Doctor isn't here.
16 January 2007. Psychiatrist, at your service, not at your convenience!
17 January 2007. He went down the well.
18 January 2007. Would you like to go after him?
19 January 2007. No, no, thank you.
20 January 2007. Make someone else do the job.
21 January 2007. Did you know there's something growing between your toes?
22 January 2007. I happen to have noticed several days back.
23 January 2007. I thought I'd tell you now,
24 January 2007. before it got any worse than it already is.
25 January 2007. Oh a god's sake is good. [Interpret this any way you want.]
26 January 2007. A god's cake is better.
27 January 2007. The Angels can only get leftovers today.
28 January 2007. Before you ask me, I want to tell you something.
29 January 2007. I'll make you honest.
30 January 2007. I'll make you true.
31 January 2007. But, I won't stay with you.

1 February 2007: a beastly proposal
2 February 2007: three seeds
3 February 2007: the wicked daughter
4 February 2007: before the world was created
5 February 2007: the golden apple
6 February 2007: the spell that cannot be broken
7 February 2007: the white lady
8 February 2007: fool's reward
9 February 2007: the wandering wife
10 February 2007: the lost husband
11 February 2007: a pound of flesh
12 February 2007: dreamtime
13 February 2007: ragnarök / the end of days
14 February 2007: three aspects of one whole
15 February 2007: candles for the dead
16 February 2007: the (wo)man who walks like a beast
17 February 2007: spirits in the water
18 February 2007: how the trickster stole the moon
19 February 2007: paths into the underworld
20 February 2007: the false man
21 February 2007: bones powder and blood
22 February 2007: a ribbon around her throat
23 February 2007: three drops of blood
24 February 2007: the clever son
25 February 2007: a measure of beauty
26 February 2007: things made of glass
27 February 2007: thieves and liars
28 February 2007: wild children

1 March 2007. the heart knows the world's disguise
2 March 2007. leave the lies ill-concealed and the wounds never healed and the games not worth winning
3 March 2007. my cage has many rooms, damask and dark
4 March 2007. however you live, there's a part of you always standing by, mapping out the sky
5 March 2007. I am nothing, you are wind and devil and God
6 March 2007. no more curses you can't undo, left by fathers you never knew
7 March 2007. you impersonate a person better than a zombie should
8 March 2007. demons'll charm you with a smile for a while
9 March 2007. the challenge: bring order to the whole
10 March 2007. look into their eyes, and you'll see what they know: everybody dies
11 March 2007. once the words are spoken, something may be broken
12 March 2007. I would murder him right there, but first I die
13 March 2007. and what if none of their souls were saved?
14 March 2007. tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight
15 March 2007. I don't know how I let you so far inside my mind
16 March 2007. gods are crumbling somewhere, machines are rumbling somewhere
17 March 2007. no arguments, shut up and dance
18 March 2007. with so little to be sure of in this world, hold me
19 March 2007. how painful dreams can be unless you know they're merely dreams
20 March 2007. what was just a world is a star tonight
21 March 2007. you just shed a little blood, and a lot of people shed a lot of tears
22 March 2007. the farther you run, the more you feel undefined, for what you have left undone, and more, what you've left behind
23 March 2007. I'd want you beautiful and pale, the way I've dreamed you were
24 March 2007. forever, which is maybe the most horrifying word I ever heard of
25 March 2007. I can slay a dragon any old week
26 March 2007. too many people muddle sex with mere desire, and when emotion intervenes the nets descend
27 March 2007. sometimes when the wrappings fall, there's nothing underneath at all
28 March 2007. they do an awful lot of dancing, the dead
29 March 2007. take my blood and my body for your love
30 March 2007. so there's hell to pay and until I die, I'll die day after day
31 March 2007. it's the last midnight, it's the last wish

1 April 2007: Homeland
2 April 2007: In the sunlight
3 April 2007: Nostalgia
4 April 2007: Under the shade of flowers
5 April 2007: Whispers
6 April 2007: Leisurely encounter beside a stream
7 April 2007: To bloom
8 April 2007: Companion
9 April 2007: Silent passage
10 April 2007: Recollection of light
11 April 2007: Existence
12 April 2007: A beautiful day
13 April 2007: Across the bridge
14 April 2007: Reflections in the water
15 April 2007: Dreaming of angels
16 April 2007: Time
17 April 2007: As one wishes
18 April 2007: Spring song
19 April 2007: By the window
20 April 2007: Sisters
21 April 2007: Love and hatred
22 April 2007: Coming back
23 April 2007: Real happiness within reach
24 April 2007: Listening to the rain
25 April 2007: Heaven sent
26 April 2007: After the rain shower
27 April 2007: At dusk
28 April 2007: Belong
29 April 2007: In the garden, like an immortal
30 April 2007: Searching for the future

1 May 2007: between the click of the light and the start of the dream
2 May 2007: one by one the nights will fall
3 May 2007: e la chiamano estate! [1]
4 May 2007: a heavenly stench
5 May 2007: put on your red shoes and dance the blues
6 May 2007: metempsychotic break
7 May 2007: would that I had discovered you, like America
8 May 2007: sun and ice
9 May 2007: I'm like, you're like, he's like, she's like
10 May 2007: the understudy
11 May 2007: all other perils and misfortunes of the sea
12 May 2007: his early adventures
13 May 2007: angel food
14 May 2007: a city wall and a trampoline
15 May 2007: je te dis vous [2]
16 May 2007: we share our mother's health
17 May 2007: heart wrecker, heart wrecker, make me delight
18 May 2007: a laboratory for thought experiments
19 May 2007: der Tod und das Mädchen [3]
20 May 2007: ROI [4]
21 May 2007: the chocolate revolution begins
22 May 2007: onomatopoe(t)ic
23 May 2007: I will put Chaos into fourteen lines
24 May 2007: blue, like an orange
25 May 2007: force majeure
26 May 2007: blood and love without the rhetoric
27 May 2007: speaking of Cao Cao [5]
28 May 2007: Casanova in Hell
29 May 2007: blow out the candle, I will burn again tomorrow
30 May 2007: there is a crack in everything (that's how the light gets in)
31 May 2007: I'd rather leave while I'm in love

[1] and they call it summer
[2] I say "vous" to you ("Vous" is the formal 'you' in French, but the sentence itself - "I say to you" is informal. This is difficult to translate as such. ^^;)
[3] Death and the Maiden
[4] return on investment
[5] the Chinese equivalent of "speak of the devil..."

1 June 2007: A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse;a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
2 June 2007: When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things
3 June 2007: without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep
4 June 2007: O ye simple, understand wisdom:and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
5 June 2007: my people shall never be ashamed
6 June 2007: There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off
7 June 2007: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
8 June 2007: for he that is not against us is for us
9 June 2007: For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known
10 June 2007: I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
11 June 2007: ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends
12 June 2007: Heaven and earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away
13 June 2007: Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way
14 June 2007: the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth
15 June 2007: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal
16 June 2007: And their eyes were opened, and they knew him
17 June 2007: the day-star arise in your hearts
18 June 2007: Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision
19 June 2007: but the greatest of these is love
20 June 2007: Strengthen me with flagons of wine, refresh me with apples; for sick of love am I
21 June 2007: the stars shall withdraw their shining
22 June 2007: But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law
23 June 2007: Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
24 June 2007: rend your heart, and not your garments
25 June 2007: And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission
26 June 2007: that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition
27 June 2007: Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
28 June 2007: For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed
29 June 2007: I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full
30 June 2007: work out your own salvation with fear and trembling

1 July 2007: Real men wear pink.
2 July 2007: Some girls spit fire.
3 July 2007: Everybody knows the frog gets the girl in the end.
4 July 2007: Ponderosa
5 July 2007: Run him like a blade
6 July 2007: Dysfunction is a function
7 July 2007: One albino doesn't a summer make
8 July 2007: Just pack it.
9 July 2007: Walk like a Tengu.
10 July 2007: Writing straight in crooked lines.
11 July 2007: Size was never so daunting.
12 July 2007: ...For a different sort of man.
13 July 2007: God - 1. You - 0.
14 July 2007: Like the brick wall to your sports car.
15 July 2007: Me talk pretty one day.
16 July 2007: She is parallel to her rectum at all times.
17 July 2007: Carve your name unto my arm.
18 July 2007: 100 Questions.
19 July 2007: Your notes on his margins.
20 July 2007: In iambic pentameter I will speak.
21 July 2007: Look for the one with her head in the oven.
22 July 2007: Circle of echoes
23 July 2007: Deciphering hieroglyphics, and here we are, without the Rosetta Stone.
24 July 2007: You are second hand smoke.
25 July 2007: Anarchy at its most orderly.
26 July 2007: Space up for rent if you'll be an animal sort of Companion.
27 July 2007: Their story is in every bullet fired down the barrels of their guns.
28 July 2007: The quiet things that no one ever knows.
29 July 2007: Head up high, hopes down low.
30 July 2007: This is not a love song.
31 July 2007: Our time is running out.

1 August 2007: Who knocks at my heart?
2 August 2007: If it’s endless love you wish, ask for it aloud
3 August 2007: In my eyes reside dreams of you
4 August 2007: Hearts here are skipping a beat, O beautiful one
5 August 2007: Oh yes, with a gust of wind/Will come the one you seek
6 August 2007: For I offer my worship only to you
7 August 2007: Poetry just dawned upon me
8 August 2007: There’s intoxication in the air
9 August 2007: I can’t say which of me is in you and which of you is in me
10 August 2007: My heart sways slowly, ever so slow
11 August 2007: You weave the magic of your love around me
12 August 2007: Tinkling in melody to wound the heart of millions
13 August 2007: Let loose your moorings, ride waves of ecstasy
14 August 2007: We will now take the path of courage
15 August 2007: Mine is a crazy heart/What has it to fear?
16 August 2007: There’ll be no end to the rock ’n roll
17 August 2007: We’re drowned in merriment
18 August 2007: The throb that sways my heart, my soul
19 August 2007: Your kohled eyes speak a mysterious language
20 August 2007: The colours of our souls have melted into one
21 August 2007: Nights drenched in passion’s colour
22 August 2007: Take a sip, give in to its powers
23 August 2007: Look at the follies of love
24 August 2007: Be sweet, be false
25 August 2007: My songs are mute with defeat
26 August 2007: Someone’s world destroys itself for love
27 August 2007: My poor little heart you have plundered
28 August 2007: You’ll remember me only when I fall apart
29 August 2007: The woes of my heart having glimpsed you
30 August 2007: My life is but under your shadow
31 August 2007: Who knocks at my heart?

01 September 2007: The words you’ve borrowed
02 September 2007: You illustrate the sun’s true candor
03 September 2007: I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
04 September 2007: The great bewildering city that you live in
05 September 2007: You’re the miss that misses
06 September 2007: Used to your streets
07 September 2007: You look a little bit older, a little bit colder
08 September 2007: Dovetailed solution of your heart
09 September 2007: You’re the model of a charmless man
10 September 2007: To me, my fair friend, you can never be old
11 September 2007: Your name begins with a distinct color
12 September 2007: An ode to your innocence
13 September 2007: You’ve given me the answer
14 September 2007: This road is all you’ll ever have
15 September 2007: Your secret of a clandestine autumn
16 September 2007: Why do you keep counting?
17 September 2007: You bring out the sunshine underground
18 September 2007: Holding your poly-morphing opinion
19 September 2007: The hustle and bustle of the traffic greets you
20 September 2007: Your heart is an empty room
21 September 2007: I'm sick of waking up on your floor
22 September 2007: Your spectrum’s a to z
23 September 2007: If you find yourself caught in love
24 September 2007: The sudden wave of silver born in you
25 September 2007: Are you on Melrose Avenue?
26 September 2007: Your hair was long when we first met
27 September 2007: The complexity of your twilight
28 September 2007: To name the sunrise in you
29 September 2007: Your red tresses, my little tower
30 September 2007: You are my country

01 October 2007: the beauty and the beat
02 October 2007: good monsters
03 October 2007: a ghost in daylight
04 October 2007: clouds of witness
05 October 2007: rejected goods
06 October 2007: it's a small world
07 October 2007: yes! we have no bananas
08 October 2007: five ways to die trying
09 October 2007: the definitive history of nothing in particular
10 October 2007: nice weather for ducks
11 October 2007: a deer in the headlights
12 October 2007: angel of the morning
13 October 2007: typhoon generation
14 October 2007: a kiss in the corner of your mouth
15 October 2007: you damn kids
16 October 2007: the day dies easy
17 October 2007: the boy who could not shiver and shake
18 October 2007: locked in a cage
19 October 2007: everything's eventual
20 October 2007: a flower called heartsease
21 October 2007: instant karma
22 October 2007: in the belly of the whale
23 October 2007: inside and out
24 October 2007: so much for the afterglow
25 October 2007: chess piece
26 October 2007: while my darling one sleeps
27 October 2007: the lint of love
28 October 2007: mirrors and smoke
29 October 2007: on the radio
30 October 2007: the first frost
31 October 2007: ofrenda

1 November 2007: -
2 November 2007: -
3 November 2007: -
4 November 2007: -
5 November 2007: state of urgency
6 November 2007: more than a memory
7 November 2007: neglected souls
8 November 2007: everything you can imagine is real
9 November 2007: inflate my ego
10 November 2007: a kiss to build a dream on
11 November 2007: nothing could be better than that
12 November 2007: do you know what it means to miss you
13 November 2007: popsicle toes
14 November 2007: on a little street in Singapore
15 November 2007: I hate quotations
16 November 2007: helpless
17 November 2007: why not?
18 November 2007: as steady and as bright
19 November 2007: you preferred life plain
20 November 2007: all I had so far were endless beginnings
21 November 2007: who slid out of my heart
22 November 2007: sweet potato pie, green beans and stuffin
23 November 2007: solstice children
24 November 2007: like wolves do
25 November 2007: born under a bad sign
26 November 2007: forget love, do it for the money
27 November 2007: green, I want you green
28 November 2007: caduceus
29 November 2007: all that and then some
30 November 2007: the sea was empty

1 December 2007. Piece by piece by piece
2 December 2007. Failure to communicate
3 December 2007. Losing streak
4 December 2007. When all else fails
5 December 2007. Give me something to look forward to
6 December 2007. --Fool me thrice, shame on me [WIP; Prince of Tennis, girl!OT5]
7 December 2007. Single digits only, please
8 December 2007. Marriage without consent [WIP; Prince of Tennis]
9 December 2007. In love on Fridays
10 December 2007. Where the river goes (song by Stone Temple Pilots)
11 December 2007. A smile is always the best
12 December 2007. Collecting memories in a rainbow pot
13 December 2007. Like toothpaste, smooth and minty
14 December 2007. I love you in different languages
15 December 2007. Swimming backwards, with your eyes closed
16 December 2007. Everyday is the yesterday of tomorrow
17 December 2007. Brush it off like lint
18 December 2007. Her own brand of sanity
19 December 2007. Separation anxiety
20 December 2007. Beast versus beast
21 December 2007. Make war, not love
22 December 2007. As unique as white bread
23 December 2007. Do I want to know?
24 December 2007. All senses busy, come back for attention later
25 December 2007. Commitment is a sin unto one's self
26 December 2007. Tell me, is pain to be cherished?
27 December 2007. Eating outdoors one cold winter
28 December 2007. Watching through a veil
29 December 2007. The sweet and the bitter
30 December 2007. Idiots will be idiots
31 December 2007. Here is to the New Year



COMPLETED: 26/361 (7.2%)

31_Days Prompts 2008;

31_days prompts;


1 January 2008: this universe we cannot control.
2 January 2008: conjoined by mystery and fate
3 January 2008: a mountain of violent sins
4 January 2008: foreshortened view of everything
5 January 2008: emotions and hunches
6 January 2008: ambiguity
7 January 2008: motionless at 9:10, freezing time when it happened
8 January 2008: beyond the sphere of human vision, we met and embraced
9 January 2008: “Who in the world am I?” Ah, that’s the great puzzle.
10 January 2008: the simple and loving heart of childhood [WIP; Prince of Tennis, Eraser]
11 January 2008: Life, what is it but a dream?
12 January 2008: one thing I can treat myself to, and if it's to be had I mean to have it
13 January 2008: the best article in the market
14 January 2008: no longer have the capacity to feel anything
15 January 2008: desire of the artist to express himself
16 January 2008: It’s sane enough what I’m asking.
17 January 2008: I can only tell you my side of the story
18 January 2008: something familiar about the way they fit together
19 January 2008: in absentia
20 January 2008: bejeweled with diamond droplets
21 January 2008: this is the very ecstasy of love
22 January 2008: a friendly eye could never see faults.
23 January 2008: if music is the food of love, play on
24 January 2008: I'll note you in my book of memory
25 January 2008: I like your silence; the more it shows off your wonder
26 January 2008: better three hours too soon than a minute too late
27 January 2008: the private wound is deepest
28 January 2008: but what can you do when you have to deal with people?
29 January 2008: contradictions do not exist.
30 January 2008: the formula defining the concept of existence
31 January 2008: vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing

1 February 2008: “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
2 February 2008: “What feeds me destroys me”
3 February 2008: “Hell hath no limits"
4 February 2008: "When all the world dissolves"
5 February 2008: "And hold there is no sin but ignorance"
6 February 2008: "The justice of my quarrel"
7 February 2008: "Virtue is the fount whence honour springs"
8 February 2008: "Accursed be he that first invented war"
9 February 2008: "Yet let me kiss my lord before I die"
10 February 2008: "And are for ever damned with Lucifer"
11 February 2008: "Confess and be hanged"
12 February 2008: "The sweet fruition of an earthly crown"
13 February 2008: "That time may cease and midnight never come"
14 February 2008: “Our swords shall play the orators for us”
15 February 2008: “Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position” [WIP; Prince of Tennis, Purgatory]
16 February 2008: “Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss”
17 February 2008: “All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial”
18 February 2008: "Infinite riches in a little room"
19 February 2008: "And every creature shall be purified"
20 February 2008: "Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars"
21 February 2008: "Love me little, love me long"
22 February 2008: "My heart is hardn'd, I cannot repent"
23 February 2008: "Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do"
24 February 2008: "I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned"
25 February 2008: "What are kings, when regiment is gone?"
26 February 2008: "We deceive ourselves"
27 February 2008: "What shall I do to shun the snares of death?"
28 February 2008: "Time doth run with calm and silent foot"
29 February 2008: "Come give me my soul again."

1 March 2008: Looking forward while moving backwards.
2 March 2008: Running up the tracks for a head on collision.
3 March 2008: Your heaving chest.
4 March 2008: This scar I carry proudly.
5 March 2008: Way of the wise.
6 March 2008: You are everything I--.
7 March 2008: Blessed is the blind, pity is the fool.
8 March 2008: Alone in a crowd one night.
9 March 2008: Beyond your reach.
10 March 2008: Strangers and candies.
11 March 2008: Suck it in and cough it out.
12 March 2008: Too much blood in my caffeine system.
13 March 2008: The rope to the ivory tower.
14 March 2008: Remembering blue flowers.
15 March 2008: Of handsome tips.
16 March 2008: Running late for an appointment with Death.
17 March 2008: Paper-thin smile.
18 March 2008: Word chains.
19 March 2008: Crossing swords.
20 March 2008: Felony is a gift to men who have everything to lose.
21 March 2008: Asskissing not required but appreciated.
22 March 2008: One point shy of winning.
23 March 2008: Heroes have it easy.
24 March 2008: Three ways to Sunday.
25 March 2008: Nine in the afternoon.
26 March 2008: Shut up, I’ve had a harrowing day.
27 March 2008: Willingly walking into a wall.
28 March 2008: Again and again and again.
29 March 2008: Takes one to know one.
30 March 2008: Pitching at birds.
31 March 2008: When in doubt, blame someone else.

1 April 2008: The smell of spring.
2 April 2008: Clay feet.
3 April 2008: Lemon-flavored kisses.
4 April 2008: The cadence of her voice.
5 April 2008: …and a sky so blue that it’ll eat you alive.
6 April 2008: Drinking sunlight.
7 April 2008: Take the long road and walk it.
8 April 2008: Sleeping with ghosts.
9 April 2008: Rainbows and puddles.
10 April 2008: A kangaroo communiqué.*
11 April 2008: On usefulness and the passage of time.
12 April 2008: Battle of attrition.
13 April 2008: Colorblind.
14 April 2008: Switch-hitter.*
15 April 2008: Dying by installments.
16 April 2008: Do not feed the animals.
17 April 2008: Synesthesia.*
18 April 2008: Everybody's stalking.
19 April 2008: Taking time out to forget.
20 April 2008: Mercy is bad for the vision.
21 April 2008: There’s no time for catchy lines.
22 April 2008: Laugh Out Loud.
23 April 2008: You walk like you’re going to fly away.
24 April 2008: Ctrl + Alt + Del
25 April 2008: Rest easy, soldier.
26 April 2008: Fall in, fall out.
27 April 2008: Shitting bricks.
28 April 2008: 11:59 PM.
29 April 2008: Blood and bone and a little bit of night music.
30 April 2008: Summer in the blink of an eye.

* A kangaroo communiqué - This is the title of a short story by Haruki Murakami. It involved a stalker and the tape he sent to a woman that he found fascinating.
* Switch-hitter. - A batter who can bat left or right depending on the pitcher's handedness (baseball)
* Synesthesia. - The sensation of blending sensory experiences (i.e. tasting colors, smelling visions)


1 May 2008: Hey-ho, let's go!
2 May 2008: Hearts have a past that must be reckoned
3 May 2008: I love you when I forget about me
4 May 2008: Sailing seas and climbing banyans
5 May 2008: How terribly strange to be seventy
6 May 2008: They only let him go so wrong out of kindness, I suppose
7 May 2008: The only constant I am sure of is this accelerating rate of change
8 May 2008: You know that ghost is me
9 May 2008: She was my first, she was my last, she was my friend until the end
10 May 2008: It's a dump of a destiny
11 May 2008: These are the days of miracle and wonder
12 May 2008: He was running out of road, he was running out of breath
13 May 2008: Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose
14 May 2008: A head case, but his record was clean
15 May 2008: His dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
16 May 2008: Out of context and beyond all consequences
17 May 2008: Did I dream this belief, or did I believe this dream?
18 May 2008: Many are the dead men, too silent to be real
19 May 2008: I will lie like a rose on your pillow and I will twine laurel in your hair
20 May 2008: Waiting for the sandbox to blow
21 May 2008: Your road to freedom that you build with flesh and bone
22 May 2008: We had such a brainiac amour
23 May 2008: Who can love you and still be standing?
24 May 2008: When a woman learns to walk, she's not dependent any more
25 May 2008: You will excuse me if I skip the masquerade
26 May 2008: The distant thunder of a million unheard souls
27 May 2008: Biding time with the crows and sparrows
28 May 2008: Particle by particle she slowly changes
29 May 2008: Can't you show me nothing but surrender?
30 May 2008: Safe and dry in my sea of troubles
31 May 2008: Wasn't that a time we had, and bless you for it

1 June 2008: unfinished lullaby
2 June 2008: if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free
3 June 2008: fate, like the wind, swept it away
4 June 2008: does anybody wanna buy a memory?
5 June 2008: forever's just a place in someone else's story
6 June 2008: Grace is sometimes, even, a raging fire
7 June 2008: roses can sprout in the concrete streets
8 June 2008: Is there anyone going to listen to my story?
9 June 2008: foul, fetid, fuming, foggy...filthy.
10 June 2008: an operatic tragedy
11 June 2008: You want so much, it makes you sorry
12 June 2008: I should tell you, I'm disaster
13 June 2008: We will buy dishes there, maybe even two sets
14 June 2008: I would love to love you
15 June 2008: Time is never planned
16 June 2008: Practically perfect in every way
17 June 2008: she keeps calling me back again
18 June 2008: Where the irish bagpipes drone
19 June 2008: his accent is hypnotic, but his shoes are pointy-toed
20 June 2008: enchantment passing through
21 June 2008: they go in a two, and walk out a ten
22 June 2008: we both know you're worth so much more
23 June 2008: some girls were just meant to smile
24 June 2008: they slip away, across the universe
25 June 2008: boameria tricuspis, I always knew you'd be this beautiful!
26 June 2008: the past is another land
27 June 2008: the thrill of the kill becomes your only law
28 June 2008: at the end of the day, you're another day older
29 June 2008: for once, I didn't disengage
30 June 2008: a little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now

1 July 2008: _____ is the sign of a stable mind
2 July 2008: All this leads to one outcome
3 July 2008: Preventive measures
4 July 2008: New ways, old things
5 July 2008: Enlightenment in kids
6 July 2008: Will you ever know?
7 July 2008: Domesticity of long-distance relationships
8 July 2008: Widow to be
9 July 2008: Alone in the pale blue morning
10 July 2008: Flipping tables
11 July 2008: Discreetly trying to catch attention
12 July 2008: The perfect knockout
13 July 2008: Dear me
14 July 2008: Only in fairy tales
15 July 2008: Plausible impossibilities
16 July 2008: View from the afternoon*
17 July 2008: Fall from grace
18 July 2008: Marrying pain
19 July 2008: In spite of everything--
20 July 2008: The world in all its colors
21 July 2008: Voicing out the words he cannot say
22 July 2008: Vouching for a stranger
23 July 2008: Wake up kick
24 July 2008: Death by embarrassment
25 July 2008: No matter what
26 July 2008: It’s me and you and our insanity
27 July 2008: Sharing pains and not joys
28 July 2008: Arguing with the insane
29 July 2008: Love is.
30 July 2008: White
31 July 2008: Against all reason

1 August 2008: Trace.
2 August 2008: Visceral love.
3 August 2008: Gravity kills.
4 August 2008: Collateral damage.
5 August 2008: Supply and demand.
6 August 2008: Twenty-seven names for tears.
7 August 2008: Somewhere just left of the point of nowhere.
8 August 2008: The many colors of a bruise.
9 August 2008: White it out.
10 August 2008: Funeral season.
11 August 2008: Trench fever.
12 August 2008: Naughty, naughty.
13 August 2008: Trigger space.
14 August 2008: Raison d’etre. ["Reason for existence" or "Reason for living" in French]
15 August 2008: As I break this chair…
16 August 2008: Evil is a good condition.
17 August 2008: Stop whispering; start shouting.
18 August 2008: Centuries before I come to where you are.
19 August 2008: Bang, bang, blame.
20 August 2008: I am to be pitied, not to be sold.*
21 August 2008: These hands made of splinters.
22 August 2008: Behind closed doors.
23 August 2008: Understand my hate for you.
24 August 2008: The turn of her heel, the nape of her neck.
25 August 2008: God lives underwater.
26 August 2008: You are all I know.
27 August 2008: Slightly out of character.
28 August 2008: This conversation never happened.
29 August 2008: The aftertaste is gonna break your heart.
30 August 2008: beLIEve.
31 August 2008: Forget whatever I said.

1 September 2008. say it again
2 September 2008. none of a kind
3 September 2008. prisoner's dilemma
4 September 2008. happy Thursday to you
5 September 2008. 3am on a school night
6 September 2008. there's an art to this
7 September 2008. but what if it doesn't?
8 September 2008. heroes in times of peace
9 September 2008. the linguistics of emotion
10 September 2008. running barefoot in the grass
11 September 2008. Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
12 September 2008. the one thing that I still know
13 September 2008. yellow, because I don't like green
14 September 2008. me, myself, I, and the space left for you
15 September 2008. ternary logic: 'yes', 'no', or 'what the fuck'
16 September 2008. don't trust a statistic you didn't fake yourself
17 September 2008. everybody knows that I hate you, except you
18 September 2008. it doesn't count if you didn't mean to
19 September 2008. creative interpretation of orders
20 September 2008. not crazy; just a little unwell
21 September 2008. loves thunder, hates lightning
22 September 2008. what will they think of next?
23 September 2008. the downside of amorality
24 September 2008. death is another country
25 September 2008. fluent in bullshitting
26 September 2008. ten out of nine times
27 September 2008. I don't not like you
28 September 2008. the taste of purple
29 September 2008. somewhat damaged
30 September 2008. zero-sum game


1 October 2008. waiting in the wings
2 October 2008. shiny happy people
3 October 2008. forever
4 October 2008. where the wild things are
5 October 2008. bargaining
6 October 2008. are you now or have you ever been
7 October 2008. double or nothing
8 October 2008. power play
9 October 2008. same time, same place
10 October 2008. doppelgangland
11 October 2008. no place like home
12 October 2008. hell’s bells
13 October 2008. fool for love
14 October 2008. the girl in question
15 October 2008. primeval
16 October 2008. redefinition
17 October 2008. listening to fear
18 October 2008. the magic bullet
19 October 2008. lies my parents told me
20 October 2008. gingerbread
21 October 2008. some assembly required
22 October 2008. the killer in me
23 October 2008. the replacement
24 October 2008. once more, with feeling
25 October 2008. the weight of the world
26 October 2008. phases
27 October 2008. parting gifts
28 October 2008. wild at heart
29 October 2008. intervention
30 October 2008. normal again
31 October 2008. conversations with dead people

1 November 2008. you silver tongued, unreliable narrator
2 November 2008. hidden and open subcultures.
3 November 2008. lately you make me
4 November 2008. competence as a compensation for loneliness (how can i possibly be lonely?)
5 November 2008. but not without considerable regret.
6 November 2008. let someone ask my heart about your half-drawn arrow
7 November 2008. magnet theory.
8 November 2008. a history that threatens to repeat itself
9 November 2008. the i accept your apology, but you make me really mad sometimes kiss
10 November 2008. disasterology: the family that schemes together..
11 November 2008. i love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
12 November 2008. back ally (with allies).
13 November 2008. a sharp tongue, an Achilles' heel.
14 November 2008. miniature bridges, your mouth.
15 November 2008. but must I confess how I liked him? [WIP; Prince of Tennis, girl!OT5]
16 November 2008. misunderstandings stemming from contrasting courting styles.
17 November 2008. a slow escalation of yearning.
18 November 2008. rivalry of the superior and inferior.
19 November 2008. villains in love (ulterior motives at cross-purposes)
20 November 2008. _____'s no good, very bad day
21 November 2008. kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases.
22 November 2008. ridiculous romantics, I am judging you silently.
23 November 2008. the end of the world seems much more likely now
24 November 2008. alibi school
25 November 2008. uninnocent these conversations start
26 November 2008. say hello and refuse goodbye.
27 November 2008. you say love is a chemical reaction.
28 November 2008. oh! most beautiful darling.
29 November 2008. doing it for science: geeks in their natural habitat.
30 November 2008. an absent-minded lover's apology.

1 December 2008. let snow and silence mark the site of my unseemly appetite
2 December 2008. make him tame so he can live in peace with the world
3 December 2008. I appeal to your scratches and your tattered fur
4 December 2008. making love in the temple
5 December 2008. glorious eyes that smile and burn
6 December 2008. I'll argue the point no longer, only cry for you a little
7 December 2008. did you find enlightenment in the Western Paradise?
8 December 2008. why should our children learn about monsters
9 December 2008. generations of poison, centuries of poison
10 December 2008. here's vengeance for your story-books
11 December 2008. dying is what, to live, each has to do
12 December 2008. those who early loved in vain
13 December 2008. and you return to us in this condition--!
14 December 2008. who knows perhaps I'll catch me a God
15 December 2008. only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all
16 December 2008. and night with different stars
17 December 2008. but if I try to find you there are only the shadows
18 December 2008. a common passion for the lonely hour
19 December 2008. and he chants the hate of a million years
20 December 2008. far now they be, fierce and free, and tamed is he
21 December 2008. and by dark arts cast a light
22 December 2008. light distilled before his time and ours
23 December 2008. drunk with his own light
24 December 2008. take care of all our dreams
25 December 2008. a thousand sunsets in a box
26 December 2008. come back in joy, come back in pain
27 December 2008. and you honored in blood rite
28 December 2008. grown small and thin with desire
29 December 2008. nevertheless, to be curious is dangerous enough
30 December 2008. the universe plunging at last into its cold decline
31 December 2008. Here Lies a Veritable Dragon.




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Alhambra [Prince of Tennis: Tezuka/Fuji, 31_days prompt]

AU setting (not in any particular verse), Tezuka/Fuji living together. 644 Words. Prompt: 31_days, 20 august 2005.

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Alhambra (signifying 'the red' in Arabic ).
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It's blood, blood everywhere spreading across skin like spilt ink, dripping in a casual way blood never should be allowed to, and he can't help but be reminded of that time when Tezuka had pushed himself too hard and too far in his match, even though they were internal injuries and there had been no blood in sight. In his mind all he'd seen at the time was the world stained red.

He gropes aimlessly for a dish cloth, not remembering where he'd left it; the plain white one with stripes of blue woven through it. He is kind of reluctant to swamp it in his own blood, even if he is losing a lot so quickly, because his mother had offered them all to him as a peacemaking. All the same pattern but in a rainbow of colours. Because I don't know which colour would match your kitchen, she had said, but not accusingly. Just regretfully. If she'd only shown an interest, she would have known sooner.

Fuji laughs to himself as his head begins to pound, but it feels lighter at the same time. Here he is up to his arms in his own blood and he's thinking about the colour of the kitchen walls. He tries to think, to concentrate. He knows he can get up off his knees if he tries, can pull the dish cloth from where it overhangs the cupboard, can use his undamaged hand to hold himself up and to reach for the phone. He's definitely going to need medical attention.

"What happened?"

Tezuka's voice is always so calm, even in the most dire of situations, even when it's something happening to himself. Fuji breathes out. The dish cloth is being wrapped tightly around his palm, and though it hurts he refuses to flinch because lacking blood is worse. Tezuka's hand around his is suffocating, just as it needs to be. In his other hand Tezuka already has his mobile, dialling for an ambulance.

"I was just going to make dinner," Fuji sighs out. "Chop up some vegetables."

"The knife slipped?" Tezuka doesn't really have to ask, but the operator on the end of the phone will.

"Deep." Fuji nods and grits his teeth. Tezuka is squeezing his hand again. There is blood drying into his trousers.

"My partner was chopping up some food and the knife slipped. It's a deep cut; there's a lot of blood. Yes, he's still conscious. Yes, he's talking. Hold on. Fuji, are you feeling light-headed, or dizzy?"

"Yes." Fuji whispers. Tezuka rattles off their address and his thumb digs into Fuji's palm. Fuji hisses but knows it's all an attempt to stop the blood escaping. While the paramedics make Fuji sit on the couch as they clean up the wound, Tezuka mops up the floor.

"Efficient." The woman says with a smile.

"He knows he can't be of any help to you." Fuji says softly enough that Tezuka won't hear. "He'd rather do something productive. He doesn't like feeling useless."

The bleeding stays stopped once it is stilled, and they bandage him up, extract a promise to call again if anything happens, and leave on another emergency call.

Tezuka brings tea for them both, and Fuji takes his with his good hand, the warmth finally allowing the shock to sink in.

"It's such a shame," he says carefully, bringing his drink up to his mouth and blowing. "Now that I've ruined the dish cloths my mother is going to have to buy us a better belated house-warming gift."

He sips at his drink and is grateful to it for keeping a smile from his face. Tezuka's look of disbelief is priceless.

"You didn't do this just for..." He can't finish his sentence.

"Oh Tezuka, no, of course not." Fuji assures him quickly. "It was just a happy coincidence, don't you think?"

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