Okay, I've seen this meme everywhere

[foolish_m0rtal]

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you between one and three sentences from that story.

Just for original fiction reference, I've written steampunk (Legerdemain, Gunpowder Plots, Castling), gothic horror (Daniel Hamish, Antiquary), hardboiled film noir (Steven Sweeney), superheroes (Septima City), and 1950's urban supernatural (A Series of Proposals).

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This meme is so ambiguous that I will accept anything. Your idea is as good as any. :D

I wish I could speak whale

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I will give you both because you, my friend, are worth it.

It had only been two hours since I'd been swallowed by a grey whale, and Armitage had already crawled into our bed to die. The dear fellow had always been of a dark temperament, much too prone to brooding when left on his own, and I believe he would have killed the whale to avenge me if I hadn't impressed upon him the rarity of the grey whale because of the whaling trade. I suppose he felt a kinship with it, two persecuted victims of the careless cruelty of humans who did not understand them.

Re: I wish I could speak whale

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I really do love these guys. I love how they're both scientists and heart and have no idea what to do with all these FEELINGS, ugh. (This is THEM : http://xkcd.com/55/) I love how Pierre is the level-headed one who treats Nemo's intense ANGST-RAGE like it's just one other ordinary thing to do before breakfast.

I Ain't Got Time to Bleed, (a.k.a) In the Future We Swear in Esperanto

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He had once been on the side of the law when he'd fought in the Lunar Wars. That had been ten years ago when he had been a young man in the infantry, before the horrors of the fikanta Tethys battle had been discovered. Before he'd lost his arm.

He sank further into the bubble bath and made sure to keep his cybernetic arm over the side where it would stay dry. He had paid a pretty credit for it on the black market, and he had custom-installed the caches at the elbow for holding extra magazines.

He heard the front door open and close, and his gun was already up when his mark opened the bathroom door. "Hiya. Nice place you got here."

To her credit, she didn't scream or demand to know what he was doing in her bathtub; she just walked slowly to put the toilet seat lid down and sat on it. "Graham Gigatec," she said. "Are you here for the bounty on my head?"

He pulled back the trigger. "Damn right, honey. A thousand credits alive, five thousand dead."

She nodded to the tattoo on his bicep. "Who's Valentine?"

He moved so the tattoo was out of sight. "None of your business."

She raised an eyebrow. "Maybe it is. I could tell you how to find him."

He leaned forward, and some of the foam ran over the lip of the tub. It smelled like charcoal and eucalyptus. She had good taste for a stool pidgeon. He grinned around the cigarette in his teeth. "Is that a fact?"

Re: I Ain't Got Time to Bleed, (a.k.a) In the Future We Swear in Esperanto

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

I will admit, this is sort of a futuristic version of my Steven Sweeney film noir story, which I really REALLY need to get off my ass and finish.

Re: I Ain't Got Time to Bleed, (a.k.a) In the Future We Swear in Esperanto

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And in case you were wondering, YES. Valentine has a tattoo that says "Gigatec."