"while they play mothers and fathers / we play little boys and girls / when we gonna make it work?"

[larryhammer]

The long holiday weekend is nearly over -- the last of my family is gone, the turkey has been reduced to scraps and frozen cubes of stock, and even on my third cup of coffee my brain is loggy enough that I'm switching between four werp tabs getting nothing done on any. That sounds like as good an excuse as any for a meme (first seen from rushthatspeaks but now 'sploded over my f-list like a dropped dish of cranberry sauce).

Tell me about a story I haven’t written, and I’ll give you one sentence from that story.

---L.

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[janni.livejournal.com]

The one about the sentient cherry blossoms.

(I can't remember now whether you decided to tell it in verse or prose.)

[larryhammer]

"Oh, stop waiting for it to fall," she told me, "it's just messing with you."

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

*love*

[janni.livejournal.com]

Ah, so you did go with prose! Don't suppose you still have the haiku (or was in tanka?) version around as well?

[larryhammer]

Waiting and waiting
for the last petal to fall --
I never can tell
whether the flower is strong
or my patience, ah!, is weak.

[janni.livejournal.com]

:-)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

The one with your protag on his pilgrimage to Kyoto, when a quake hits--he falls--he wakes up in Heian Japan, and shortly discovers the real meaning behind certain illusive phrases in the poetry: that everybody can switch gender at will.

[amanen.livejournal.com]

(oh my gosh though, coming from a classical Japanese student can this PLEASE be a real fact)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

elusive. (argh)

[larryhammer]

It would explain SO MUCH, wouldn't it?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

LOL, yeah: amanen said, "OMG listen to this prompt from sartorias" and then read it out, and I said, "Let me guess, it was for lnhammer, right?

(excellent prompt indeed!)

He came to beneath a thick robe on a thin mat to the sound of a floorboard chirping

[larryhammer]

Behind his fan the face blended into another, the way the moonlight outside the veranda merged with the flowering trees.

---L.

Re: He came to beneath a thick robe on a thin mat to the sound of a floorboard chirping

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is quite lovely. And intriguing!

[larryhammer]

It is an intriguing prompt.

---L.

[amanen.livejournal.com]

The one with the girl who could commune with jellyfish, but only when her health was getting worse.

[larryhammer]

She poked it with her fingernail, as if expecting it to do more than just jiggle.

(Isn't that a real manga?)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'd like to hear any quotes from The Antimatter Chronicles

[larryhammer]

She looked at me as if through a mirror, as if that were all that was between us.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Magnifico!

[janni.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh.

[alpha-strike.livejournal.com]

I'd like a line from 'The Origami Giraffes' from your collection of short stories, "Haiku Menagerie". Because I'm demented, and stuff.

[larryhammer]

It listed, one leg just shorter than the others, all but falling down.

[alpha-strike.livejournal.com]

This story is clearly not about one of your origami giraffes. Yours stands faded, but still haughty, on my computer eight years after its folding.

It's a great story, nonetheless.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Do you remember a story about a boy who freed a Kitsune from the warlord's trap?

[larryhammer]

His breath misted yellow in the lantern light.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

That's the one. :)

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

"Comes a Train of Little Ladies" (Gilbert and Sullivan) considered as a Buddhist tract?

[larryhammer]

As she hurriedly repaired her makeup while Wardrobe swapped out her kimono, I realized that in truth the beauty of light opera is indeed a bubble that will eventually burst.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

:-)