UnHinged - Chapter 3 by XTheAuthoressX, literature
Literature
UnHinged - Chapter 3
In Which There Are Doctors and Tuna Sandwiches.
The bed was cold when Casey woke up the next morning. Sunlight streamed in the balcony doors, filtering through the curtains and casting a soft light against the floor. The clock said 12:21 in its large red block numbers. Casey yawned, stretching his arms out and taking up the entire bed, before sitting up. "God, what a night." He murmured, rubbing his eyes. After a moment, he peered over the side of the bed, expecting to see Hanna still sleeping.
Except, the pillow-mattress was empty. Hanna wasn't there.
Casey fought the urge to swear. Hanna was probably just somewhere in the house. He prob
Up in Smoke -HINABN by DesdemonaKakalose, literature
Literature
Up in Smoke -HINABN
Summary: when the world is falling apart around you, somebody's got to hold the seams together. Plot heavy, I think. Warning, this product may contain Conworth- don't get your hopes too high though. Preslash is preslashy at most
Doc Worth lights himself a cigarette. His fingers are cold, but they don't fumble with the gears. The movement is perfected by more than a decade of practice, and the sweet little snick is the only thing that's right these days. He looks up at the stars—so much brighter tonight, there's got to be more stars in the sky than there were pages in all his college textbooks combined. He can see a stripe of dust acros
What Fools These Mortals Be 1 by HosekiDragon, literature
Literature
What Fools These Mortals Be 1
Dusk was falling and the streets were mostly empty. A fine mist had started creeping across the cobbled streets and the yellow-ish street lights cast everything into hazy shadows and sharp white-yellow shapes. In this hour just before dark fell, the towering brick houses with their drapes drawn across the windows and their iron fenced gates chained shut seemed to loom hauntingly above the narrow streets where, hours earlier, steam-powered carriages and cars had zipped back and forth. But now, everything was silent.
In fact, the only people walking down the street were a tall man and his rather short companion. To be more precise, the short o
The Silence Is Never Empty by silverhelme, literature
Literature
The Silence Is Never Empty
The silence is never empty.
Prometheus perched at an accounting desk is
Offering a heartbeat in return for a saner existence
And a handful of gears, ticking and clicking and tapping.
If only the eagle that comes to purge your body
Far more frequently these days than you'd prefer
Was not your own hand, pale and fragile and shaking.
Fingers curling clockwise around an oily scalpel,
Trunks of music and novels and things you once loved
Forgotten like so many joys, sanity and safety and silence.
Your gift was once intelligence and for it you suffer now
Perpetually forced to rewire a failing body and not miss
The things you are replaci
You're pretty sure babysitting is a little girly. But you need a quick way to make money for that video game you want and at the age of fifteen your only options are mowing lawns in the hot summer heat or babysitting. So you take the latter. Which brings you standing nervously in front of a small bulletin board at the local supermarket. It's covered with fliers for lost dogs and people giving away kittens. But that's not why you're here, you're looking for an easy babysitting gig. You pass over one looking for someone to watch triplets, because one brat is more than enough. So you take a number tab from the ad about a five year old and run ou
He'd lived in this apartment for several years now, and ever since the first night he spent there, he'd been plagued by that goddamn nightingale. 'Will you shut UP?!' he thought at it angrily, as he buried his head under his pillow every evening. The stupid thing must have been out to annoy him, for it perched right on the telephone wires right outside his bedroom window and began to sing its ridiculous song exactly two minutes after he went to bed. Every single night.
His methods of dealing with the creature differed depending on his mood. Most nights he tried to ignore it, and succeeded in falling to sleep in maybe half an hour. Other time
HiNaBN: Shallow water blackout by hiccoughing, literature
Literature
HiNaBN: Shallow water blackout
Pairing: None. (Mrs Hatch/The Ocean?)
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Vignette / The kind where a magical creature tries to drown herself
He calls her Myfanwy. Welsh. 'My woman.'
She tries to drown herself in the bathtub. It's happened a few times before.
She locks the door to the bathroom and empties the whole carton of table salt into the Atlantic-cold bathwater. It reminds her of home to do a thing like that.
"Open this goddamn door, woman," he shouts, pounding on it like a storm. "Myfanwy. Please."
"I'm taking a bath," she says. She chooses her words so carefully. "I'll be out soon."
"Like hell you will." But he goes away anyway