Ficlet: Trip

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Here's another surprise. Watched The Virgin Suicides last night, and today I got this...

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Trip
by Serai


Jeanine flies out the door and down the driveway. I watch through the windows as I wash the dishes. He meets her halfway up the asphalt, and I size him up. Of course he doesn’t live up to her gushing praises – they never do. He’s pretty enough, flashing a bright smile whose charm he’s obviously rehearsed, but there’s something about his lanky, hipshot walk that unsettles me. The affected way he bobs his head as he approaches her, and the curve of his neck when he looks down into her eyes… Looking up at him, she sees the Cutest Boy Ever, but I see a snake, a cobra or a rattler hypnotizing its prey. Rattlesnakes aren’t evil, they’re just doing what they do. Things turn out pretty badly for whatever crosses their path, though.

Now he touches her nose with a fingertip, and I can easily imagine her expression that I’m too far away to see. I sigh, wondering if they make snakebite kits for a broken heart.

Shiner - C/Z (Preslash PG-13)

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Shiner
by Serai


Ten o’clock is a free period for Zeke, so he uses it to restock and take care of any other errands. Today, he’s passing by the old, disused tennis courts ( when he sees Casey Connor )

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Chapter 7 of High Contrast
Chapter 8

Cross-posted to jacked_up

Unafraid

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Oh, my god.

Roger Rees has gone on to the footlights in the sky.

He was lovely. Like a lot of people, I knew of him first as Nicholas Nickleby, in the mammoth nine-hour production of Dickens's novel. Although he was clearly too old for the role, he captured the sweet honor and despairing compassion of the character, as well as his hopefulness, dreams, and courage. That he went on to so much success never surprised me at all.

Finale (Good Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen) - from The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby


If you haven't seen this, you should. It's out on DVD. A great thing to make part of a holiday tradition, I think. I watch it every year around the holidays.

Thank you, good man, for all your great work. You'll be so missed.