Memento

Little bit of a fic clearinghouse activity today... I'm transferring some past ficlets that were posted to my personal journal, but never made it over here to my writing journal, where they really belong. So- clean-up today, since the little imp I live with is making it clear that there will be no actual writing done until she's tucked into bed tonight. Oh well...

So... first up is a piece that I wrote for the Fahrenheit 107 Fic challenge. evil_whimsey and me make these things up all the time; we're good at amusing ourselves. She gave me a prompt to work with (Roy keeps a secret scrapbook of Fullmetal's newspaper clippings), and this is the result. Came out pretty good, despite being unpolished and short. Meh. Whatever. It was kinda fun, all the same.

Memento

( Alchemist Rebuilds Bridge, Saves Twelve... )

And Miles To Go

Here's one from Whimsey's Haiku Challenge. This was a particularly fiendish- and brilliant- exercise in stretching your creativity. The way it worked, was that we each chose several haikus, and they were randomly combined with thematic prompts. The combined result was used to write the ficlet. We also did a few where we exchanged haiku pieces- somehow, I got stuck with several food-related haikus, which messed with my head something fierce. But... that's a good thing, I think. It forces you to work outside of your comfort zone, and even though I wracked my brain for weeks over a few of these, I ended up being pretty pleased with the results. Funny how that can work out.

So anyway. This was one of those exchanged haiku prompts, and it actually went quite awry. It was supposed to be limited to 350 words, but I had been experiencing quite a period of writer's block, and when the idea for this one finally came through, it went completely out of hand. And after suffering a drought of words, I wasn't about to trim it back, or do anything to curtail the flow. And so this 1242 word FMA piece landed in its stead.

(Ed Elric, Winry Rockbell, genfic)


And Miles To Go

Prompt: After the argument

Wrapping dumplings in
bamboo leaves, with one finger
she tidies her hair

( Three hundred feet to go... )

FMA ficlet without a good name

That's not to say that it has no name, just that it has no good name.

See, evil_whimsey made a request last winter, for a fic involving Edward Elric, cocoa, and someone perving on him at Briggs. And this is what I came up with.

She's such a dear, patient person. She didn't even bash me after reading it.

See, this is a perfect example of how messed up my brain is. Given a lovely opportunity to write fluffy gorgeousness, I turn around and pull this piece of depravity out of my brain, which must be the polar opposite of what was intended. So here you have it. Ed, cocoa, and- of all people- Kimblee.

(for the record, I think Kimblee is a complete freak, and I don't like having him in my head)


Spoilers for manga chapters 70 and 71. The italicized quote at the beginning of the story is from Kimblee himself.

( Kimblee Is a Sick Fucker )