Taming the Muse

Title: Return of the Sky Pirates
Fandom: Original
Prompt: Dirigible
Warnings: None
Rating: G
Summary: The only answer was a string of cursing -- not particularly creative cursing, but very loud.


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Title: Resting in the Sky
Fandom: Original
Prompt: Apotropaic
Warnings: Description of a dead body
Rating: PG-13
Summary: If the great is the good then the good is the great, the good is the good, if the good is the great and the great is the sweet then the good is the sweet.

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Title: Respite
Fandom: Original
Prompt: Hinterlands
Warnings: None
Rating: G
Summary: Recoiling, Cassandra nudges her plate away. “You can eat that? Isn't it, well, pointy?”

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Title: Dark as Moonrise
Fandom: Original
Prompt: Keloid
Warnings: None
Rating: PG
Summary: “Swallowing ponds, if I’m not mistaken,” Steel replies, indicating the sinkholes. “Just don’t go near, don’t touch them, don’t set foot by the edge. Eat you up as soon as look at you.”

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Title: Darkening her Doorstep
Fandom: Original
Prompt: Architecture
Warnings: None
Rating: G
Summary: “I’m not people. I like you, but I don’t want to kiss you.”

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Title: Balloons and Ballooners
Fandom: Original
Prompt: Nerve Gas
Warnings: Implied character death
Rating: PG
Summary: Cassandra’s eyes were watering, but it wasn’t sympathy. It wasn’t even tears. It was just the terrible, inescapable burning gases that filled the room, choking her on every breath.
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