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[in_the_blue]

Writing Challenge!

Last month I asked for feedback on the challenge guidelines themselves and got some suggestions. I liked some of what I got and didn't like some other bits of what I got and really, since I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul, I've made just one change: upped the word count to 400. The point is that this is still a short-short themed fic challenge; there are many opportunities for writing longer pieces of work and there are many opportunties for including specific phrases in challenges. So to keep this different I'm still keeping the theme; I won't dictate anything beyond that for this time around.

This month's theme is falling (in honor of autumn, in an oblique kind of way).

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Rules (remember, they're more like guidelines):

• Fandom: any, so long as it's one you know well.


• Word count: 400 or less


• Main theme: Falling.


• Ratings: No restrictions.


• Duration: Challenge opens today and closes at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, September 24. A week and a day so we have two Saturdays at our disposal.

Post your short-fics as comments to this entry. Feel free to do as few or as many as you want, and if you see one you really like, be sure to leave a review or a comment.

Write, write, write. It's good for you.

Comments

[forbiddensailor.livejournal.com]

They're staring at me.

They always do that.

They plead.

"You're the one?..." they say. "We... we didn't know...! We take it all back!"

"You're not supposed to be here!"

"Please, no, not that, anything but that...!!"

I can't hear them.

Silence is overwhelming.

My fingers grip the staff.

That is when they understand.

It is over.
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The Glaive fell then
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Young Hotaru Tomoe.

Never destined to live.

She was destined to die six years ago. This is meant to be your Silver Millenium, as you thought.

My path does not lie here.

I will go to the invaders' universe.

Always remember.

I am the death and destruction necessary for rebirth.

Always, with death -- comes hope and rebirth.

Do not forget your hope. It lives, and so shall you.

My path... does not lie here.
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The Glaive fell then
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Silence conquers all. To live is to die. What is the meaning of these words?

Who have I come to be?

The Glaive fell (black and smoothed stone pole, white fingers intertwined). It destroyed our civilization.

The Glaive fell (sharpened curved bright edges against the dark of space). It destroyed myself and evil alone.

The Glaive falls now (it sweeps before me, swift clean death to all, no one to tell the difference when they live again).

Who am I?

I am the last, forbidden Sailor Senshi. She who must never be awakened. But I live, and when the Glaive falls, it brings hope.

These days... (thank you)

Sincerely,

Hotaru Tomoe.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Sche, that's... just about a piece of poetry the way you chose to write it. I'm so glad you played.