Friday, May 17, 2013

TLS's Flash-Fic Fridays are in full effect! Come and see who's flashing us this week: 5/17 - 5/24

FLASH FIC FRIDAY IS HERE


PLEASE JOIN US EACH FRIDAY TO SEE WHO'S FLASHING US

Each Friday a new prompt will be posted along with the previous week's winners

What exactly is a Flash-Fic? It's pretty much a spur of the moment, tiny story, prompted by words, images or silliness. Not sure if you've ever been on twitter when this has happened, but it's pretty awesome when it does. It also happens often in threads, with a combination of people contributing. 

How does it work? Each Friday one admin of TLS posts a picture prompt here to the blog. Using this image, entries are created. Entries must be 100-300 words ONLY. No more, no less. The entries are then judged and we post the winning submissions here, each Friday, to share with all of you.

THIS WEEK'S NEW PROMPT ... and yes I'm going dirtay!




Picture prompt and judge the week of 5/17 - 5/24 is by Jaime Arkins.


You will have until next Wednesday at 9 p.m. EST to submit your entry.



 Please leave your submission in the comment section at the bottom of the post using this format:

Your name (use your Twitter, Facebook or FFN name)

Your link to your FFN profile if you choose to share it

Number of submission. Example: #1

Submissions will be judged on Thursdays and on Friday the winning entry will be posted here, on the TLS blog. 

This feature is open to everyone, so come one, come all!


LAST WEEK'S PROMPT AND WINNERS




.FIRST PLACE WINNER

PrimaryColors
@primarycolors1
 word count: 300


We were always outside when the streetlights lit up, prowling the neighborhood in a pack of banana seat bikes and skateboards, popping wheelies behind the mosquito truck, light-headed, silly, laughing as we sped past the cemetery.

Edward and I rested on the hill behind the gas station, letting the others go.

I was glad I’d left my hair loose. Sometimes, if I stood close enough, Edward curled his fingers ‘round the ends. I’d loved him forever and he probably knew it, but nothin' had ever been said or done.

“What’d y’have for dinner?” Edward asked, squinting into the sky like he couldn’t care less. He did though. He liked to live vicariously through my dinnertimes since he never had a proper sit-down himself, his mom working so much.

“Daddy’s outa town,” I answered. “Em said I could do whatever I wanted so long as I don’t blab that his girlfriend is sleeping over in his room.” I cut my eyes over. “Maybe I’ll stay out all night. Smoke cigarettes and have Krispy Kreme for dinner.”

“Nah you won’t,” he said, laughing.

“I will!" I punched him on the arm for emphasis.

He sat up suddenly, holding my hand tight to keep me from hitting him again. My stomach flipped at the way he leaned over me, eyes bright.

“You won’t. You’re so…” he trailed off, swallowing hard.

“What?” I frowned. “Goody-goody? I’m not, I—“

“Pretty,” he said softly. “You’re so pretty.”

“Shutup! That’s a lie, Edward Cullen.” My face was hot.

He shook his head, bemused. “If you say so.”

“Alright then,” I whispered. “Lie to me again.”

Leaning close to my ear, “I love you.”

“But--”

“Shh,” he said, kissing the corner of my mouth. “Forgot to mention it’s opposite day.”

“So that means—”

“Not a lie.”


SECOND PLACE

Sparrow Notes
@sparrownotes24
 Word Count: 300


I beg you to save me from this. From him.

The man who's trapped me in his underworld nightmare for years.

His dark and cold sharklike eyes watch you. Waiting.

He smiles when you press cold steel to my temple. 

My breath catches, blood freezes, hope dies.

"Why?" I ask you.

The sharp click of the safety deafens me.

"Collateral damage. You know too much."

"You were never going to help me?"

"No." Your voice is black ice. Treacherous.

"Everything was a lie?"

"Yes."

A laugh bubbles up, choking me. "Lie to me again."

"I love you."

You both laugh at the cruel words, and I know I'm going to die. 

I close my eyes to the curled sneer of the man I'll never be free from. To look at him is unbearable.

"I trusted you."

"You shouldn't have."

I see now every whispered word, every secret shared, was a stroke of ink on my death warrant. 

You are my fatal attraction.

"Kill her," he says.

My heart collapses.

Tears fall as memories disintegrate to dust. The heat of your lips against my skin, touches that consumed me as much as your promises. Too much and not enough.

A thousand decibels rip through me.

.

.

I wake with you by my side, reaching to trace my finger along the dark line of your jaw, making sure this isn't a dream.

"You said you didn't love me?"

"Bella, I fell in love with you the moment you smiled at me." 

You brush the back of your fingers across my cheek to ease my confusion. "The truth was less dangerous than the lie."

"What was the lie?"

"I was."

You show me your badge.

Detective Edward Cullen.

You tell me it's over. I'm safe. 

You killed him. You broke your cover, for me.

THIRD PLACE

Boom-Boom Jones
@boomboom_jones
Word Count: 300

His wife died. Her husband did the same thing.

Car accident. This big pile-up on the one-oh-one. 

They left them to fend for themselves. 

If only she hadn’t told him to hurry up and get home.

If only he hadn’t fought with her that morning.

Their hearts were open and full but then their hearts were ripped out of their chests and all that was left was a gaping hole and inside that hole a constant ache. 

They were told to try a support group, because alcohol and pills weren’t the answer. His sister made him go. Her therapist strongly suggested it, after her own accident. “Just go once, twice,” is what they said.

It’d taken four meetings for her to say anything. He listened to some of it.

After the fifth it’d rained, asphalt glistening beneath streetlamps. He sat on the curb outside the church, smoking. His pack was almost empty. He ignored the others as they dragged by to go to empty homes. She stopped and bummed a cigarette, and then they went to a bar.

Support Group. 

Bar.

Their routine for weeks until they quit group. 

They said fuck it and drank at home. 

They did this for months, a year.

He stayed over. Her sheets smelled of him, distracting. 

His sister loathed her. Said, “You’re not moving on.”

Her therapist said, “It’s self destructive.”

They closed the door on the sister and the therapist. 

Numbness stitched up holes that choked.

They had their unspoken rules. Knew what they needed. 

Another year and they still functioned. Still had jobs. Paid their bills, taxes. Ate.

They had rules.

Naked backs touched. “Lie to me again,” she whispered.

“I love you,” he said.

“Now the truth,” she said, phantom heart thumping.

He couldn’t breathe. “I really don’t.”

“Me either.”

HONORABLE MENTION

Agrutle on twitter/ffn and Gayle Whitlock on FB
 Word count: 298

I had known Edward Cullen since he and I were eight years old. He was my brother Emmett’s best friend, so he was around all the time. It was about that time that I became fascinated with him. I wouldn't call it love, more like hero worship. 

He thought I was the biggest nuisance in the world up until we were in high school. It was there that the hero worship became a teenage crush and consequently lust. We couldn't keep our hands off of each other. I knew we would last forever, go to college together, get great jobs,get married and live happily ever after. 

Sometimes though that isn't the way things go, other forces choose the way things happen. We did go to college together but Edward got a great job after in another state and he told me that the space would be good for us, and he didn't want me to go with him. He said he didn't love me anymore. 

He left and I was heartbroken. I went to work and I came home, and that is all I did. How could he say for so long that he loved me and then just leave after all we had shared? 

Two years passed and I was on my way back to our home town for my brother and his sister’s wedding. I knew I would see him and it scared the hell out of me because I still loved him even after all he’d done and how long it had been.

When I saw him, and the look in his eyes I knew he still loved me and had lied. He reached for me and we fell into each others arms. 

“Lie to me again” I cried. 

“I love you.” he whispered. 

HONORABLE MENTION

Honeybeemeadows
Word Count: 297


Let’s face it. 

If I am a garden, my heart is full of weeds. 

The kind with pretty flowers that you don’t mind so much until there’s no stopping the ravenous consumption. There’s nothing left in my chest but a knotted ball of roots and dirt. My rib cage is held together with vines and when I wake up in the mornings, marigolds bloom out of my eyes. 

Sugar blossom skin that bruises easy as a poppy and tears that taste like candied violets.

You can’t see past the flashy petals. 

------------------------------------------

“I have to tell you something.”

“What’s that, Sugar Plum?” I lick my lips while she fiddles with the hem of her tank top and pulls it over her head.

“I’m not who you think I am.” She drops it to the floor and I clamp my mouth shut, eyes on her face. “I’m a fake.” Off comes the short sleeve and she peels herself from her long sleeve. “It’s all just a show.” Reaches behind herself, unclasps her bra and dangles it from one finger before it joins the growing pile between us. 

Rose colored nipples and peach flavored skin.

“Bella,” I try but she shakes her head. Drops her skirt and then her lacy slip. Pulls off her leg warmers. Struggles out of her tights. Steps free of her panties. Stands there with her eyes on the mountain of clothing between us. 

“I’m a liar.”

“Honey, if this is lying, I hope you never stop.” I shake my head at her. 

“I’m too broken for you.”

“Lies. Do it again.”

“I can’t love you,” she pleads.

“Again.”

“I’m not worth this.”

“You’re such a liar.” I catch her in my arms before she wilts away. “I love you. And I’m not a liar.”
HONORABLE MENTION

Musical_Voice on TwitterMusicalVoice on FFN (http://www.fanfiction.net/~musicalvoice)
Word count: 274
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“The date was awful,” she said as she stripped off her shirt. “Total dud. I don’t know why Kevin was under the impression I wanted to hear about rebuilding his engine, but he was seriously deluded.”

Edward watched her take off each heel and her jeans without breaking stride. He lied when he promised himself he wouldn’t let this happen again, that he needed for her to see how much he cared about her. In the end, Bella won out. She always did.

“I couldn’t wait to get to your apartment,” she said, pushing him back onto the bed and roughly taking off his shirt. “You don’t know how much I needed this. Needed you.”

“I always need you,” he said as he firmly held her shoulders and looked into her eyes. “It should’ve been me taking you out tonight.”

“But I came home to you, isn’t that what matters?” she asked, slipping out of his grip and grinning slyly as she deftly removed his belt and jeans. 

Three weeks. Three weeks in a row Bella had gone out with men who meant nothing to her only to show up at Edward’s apartment and spend the night with him. She knew how he felt, but it wasn’t enough for her. This would have to be enough for him until she changed her mind.

“You’re the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen,” he said as she straddled him, lightly cupping the side of her face as he finally slid into her.

“Lie to me again,” she whispered.

“I love you,” he said sadly.

He knew she didn’t believe him yet, but someday… someday she would.

The Lemonade Stand would like to also thank all of the participants. We thoroughly enjoyed ALL of the entries!


The Lemonade Stand would like to thank all of the participants. We thoroughly enjoyed ALL of the entries!

See you next week!

XOXO

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

LEMON DROPS: 5/15/13



Man, oh man, have we got an assortment for you! We've got sensual exploration, some library lovin', contractor connecting, musician mmmm's, and dirty domination waiting for you this week. Pick your poison, pervs, and please remember to leave our authors some love.
xoxo
Mel

Everything by MarLea Pie
www.fanfiction.net/s/9280108/1/Everything
Is it possible for me to love you more? Is there a way I can show you how much you mean to me? Because you are everything. And everything is what I'd give to you.  Fiction M - English - Romance - Edward & Bella - Words: 3,489

Of Bookstacks and Hockey Pucks by Sunsetwing
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6747700/1/Of-Bookstacks-And-Hockey-Pucks
Bella is a librarian with a chat room addiction. This is what happens when she comes face to face with the University's Hockey coach, and the guy she's been speaking to online. Fiction M - English - Romance - Bella & Edward - Chapters: 2 - Words: 7,708

Rare Sunny Summer by glorydays
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5309786/1/Rare-Sunny-Summer
When Bella's grandmother passes away, she leaves her house in Forks, which is in shambles to Bella in her will. What happens when Bella hires sexy contractor Edward Cullen to fix the damages? Entry for the Summer of Smut Contest - ONE OF TWO WINNERS - Fiction M - English - Romance/Humor - Bella & Edward - Words: 7,201

Shrines by ordinary vamp
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9254908/1/
The story of his Cinnamon Girl and her prettyboy Drummer.  Fiction M - English - Romance - Bella & Edward - Words: 4,577

Turnabout by coldplaywhore
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9275825/1/Turnabout
Turnabout is fair play. After all, Isabella Swan has been nothing but demanding, relentless and difficult since he began working under her. Now it's Edward's turn to control her. Rated M for Mature Audiences. Fiction M - English - Romance/Drama - Bella & Edward - Words: 10,152

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

TLS Fics of the Week 5/14 - 5/20/2013: The Sexy Six are up!



Penalty Shot by Edward’s Eternal
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9203413/1/Penalty-Shot
Recently divorced, Bella struggles to find a new life for her and her son Jake. Enter Edward and his son, Emmett. Used to being alone, finding Bella is an unexpected surprise for Edward. Blending their lives together sometimes requires an extra shot on goal to even things up. A simple, heartwarming story of two single parents finding love again, healing and building a new family. Rated M

Review by Mizzez Pattinson

If you've read Edward’s Eternal previous fics, then you know the excitement you felt when she started posting this new Hockeyward story. Anything Edward's Eternal writes is pure genius and her Edwards are goose-bump inducing and swoon-worthy!!

We start with Bella, a newly-divorced single mom to Jake. After her husband, William, runs out on them, they start over, tumbling Bella into uncharted territory. Being a single mother is challenging, however, being a single hockey mom is a whole other universe – Trust me, I am one! The uncertainty and roller coaster of emotion is captured well in the first couple of paragraphs.

I trailed behind Jake who seemed to know where he was going and walked into the arena. Nervously, I looked around. Aside from sitting in the stands, I had never been part of this world. It was a father and son thing, I had been informed. William took him to practices and all the team stuff. I was expected to show up and cheer occasionally, bake vast amounts of cookies for the bake sales, and kiss and bandage any small scuffs that occurred. William was always very firm about that, as it was simply how it was done. He was all about doing things the way they should be done, but now it was just me.

We start off when Bella and Edward’s lives collide with one another…literally. Emmett is Edward’s son and nearly bulldozes into Bella at the hockey rink. Enter Mr. Firm Chest a.k.a Edward to the rescue. I think he sneaks his way into Bella’s mind and heart just as quick as it took Em to nearly knock her over!! This Edward made me swoon and this was only chapter one!! As we progress, Bella and Edward form a friendship because of their boys newly formed bond. Sexual tension and assumptions fill the next few chapters, but the locker room starts to heat up as these two find themselves alone in a heated situation.

I giggled at how flustered he had become. Without thinking, I leaned up and kissed his cheek; his skin warm beneath my lips. 
"It's okay, Edward. I had sort of figured that part out on my own. Alice might have mentioned you were rusty at this," I teased him gently.
His hand touched his cheek where I had kissed him. 
"Oh she did, did she? I'm not that rusty, I'll have you know."
""No?"
He moved, bringing us even closer so now his firm chest was flush against mine; my heartbeat quickening at the feel of him pressed into me. Once again, his warm breath floated over my face. His hand dropped from my neck, the coolness of the cloth disappearing as he leaned forward, both hands now holding my hips as he stared at me.
"No. I'm not. In fact, we're gonna do things a little different, Bella."
"Oh?" My voice squeaked at him, every sense I had suddenly awake and yearning.
"Normally, I'd take you out and we'd both spend the evening wondering."
"W… wondering?"
His voice dropped even further. "You'd be wondering if I was going to try and kiss you at the end of the night, and I'd be wondering if you'd let me."
"We're not going to do that?" I whispered; my eyes locked with his.
"No," he stated firmly, "we're not."
And then his lips were on mine.

If you have read any of Edwards Eternal’s other fics you know that she does not disappoint. I am excited to see where this date will take them, and what happens with their future. How will they make out with two kids in the mix? Will Edward or Bella’s ex’s come into play? We are only eight chapters in, so I am sure that we have a lot more in store for us!!


The Boy At Table Seven by LyricalKris
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9169277/1/The-Boy-At-Table-Seven
Life for a young waitress can be pretty mundane. The highlight of Bella's week was the lunchtime visit from the three sexy mechanics from across the street. Then one day there was a little boy at her table left alone. Rated: Fiction M




Fix You by Chocaholic123
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8877174/1/Fix-You 
Two lives. Different worlds. The ripples from this twelve year collision course will last forever.  ExB, AH, Rated M for a reason.




Glass House by Livie79
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8412484/1/Glass_House 
Edward and Bella had it all, but one night changed everything. How will they survive when it all comes crashing down? Love, lies, loss...life. This is that story. Fiction M



Something True by BelieveItOrNot
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9103200/1/Something-True
With too many secrets and a haunting past she'd love to forget, at seventeen, Bella is sure love doesn't exist.  College dropout Edward Cullen can't seem to keep hold of love, or his music.  A cottage, a lake, a tree, a muse, wrong choices, and heartache.  How will these two cope with life and keep afloat?  A daily word-prompt WitFit. Alternates between past and present.  AH E/B Rated M




Dirty South Drug Wars by Hoodfabulous
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8964195/1/Dirty-South-Drug-Wars
Bella and Edward meet at age twelve after the death of Bella's father, a death blamed on the Cullen family.  Their families are sworn enemies, fighting for territory over their rival drug trafficking businesses. Bella and Edward meet again at age eighteen and their attraction to one another is undeniable.  Will their forbidden love destroy them both? A Dirty South Fanfic. AH/OOC Rated M

Meet the Poll: What we read in TLS this week




Each week we share with you what we are reading and enjoying. The following made the top of our lists last week. Please help us determine which 5 of these will be featured as fics of the week, next week, by choosing FIVE from the poll on the right!


Bird Girl by TheQueenWriter- rec'd by Evilnat
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8263129/1/
The small town girl who doesn't care about his celebrity status. Can Edward change Bella's mind? Rated M

Bite Club-You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having by Honeybeemeadows-rec'd by PawsPeaches
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9149354/1/Bite-Club-You-Can-t-Imagine-How-Much-Fun-We-re-Having
This is your life, and it's ending one moment at a time. I know this because Masen knows this. Rated M for blood and bad language.  Rated M

Broken Serenade by Dydear-rec'd by Susan Q Susan
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8946195/1/Broken-Serenade
Bella is scarred by an event that changed her life years previously. After seven years with no word from Edward, a Christmas card arrives that causes her to leave for Forks, and changes everything she thought she knew about her past, present, and future. Rated M

Caged Skylark by Quinnlark-rec'd by MizzezPattinson
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8786875/1/Caged-Skylark
Journalist Bella Swan is assigned to work with the new guy, Jacob Black, on her own entertainment column. There is no way she can turn it down; it's the dream of a lifetime. However, Bella didn't bargain for the beautiful man she would work with, nor Edward—the sexy lead singer of the band they are to follow. Will she fly or come crashing down? Rated M

Capital E, Everything by fortheloveofdaisies- rec'd by North Caro
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9027709/1/Capital-E-Everything
Meet Edward and Bella, two best friends who share some stupid jokes, a lot of silly banter, and even more sexual repression. A story about standing on the edge of a leap that could risk, well, everything. Rated M

Crash Zone by JiffyKate–rec’d by MagTwi78
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9141640/1/
The Crash Zone is a buffer zone outside the perimeter of the track. It's purpose is to insure the safety of the fans from skaters falling out of bounds. Is it enough to keep hearts from being broken? Rated M

Curve Ball by Staceleo- rec'd by HisMysticMuse
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9102043/1/Curve-Ball
Opposites attract don't they? Not in Bella Swan's world. Unfortunately, the Captain of the baseball team has other ideas. A short chapter tale written for mauigirl60. Rated M

Deadly Obsession by WitchyVampireGirl–rec’d by Misty H
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9160772/1/Deadly-Obsession
All I wanted was to be loved by you, but you ruined that. Now you have left me no choice. Rated M for language and adult themes, AH. Rated M

Getting Warmer by Eiluned price-rec’d by Melissa Duncan Jones
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5499346/1/Getting-Warmer
After their honeymoon on Isle Esme, Bella gets to spend more time being human with Edward as they travel cross-country to New Hampshire and beyond, and learn about art, love and temperature differentials. AU. BxE. Newlyweds being newlyweds, so lemons.  Fiction M

Heart of Stone by Coldplaywhore-rec'd by Twific Crackmum
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8874407/1/Heart-of-Stone
Edward, in an effort to make use of his ability to read minds, uses his gifts to rid the truly evil people in the world and protect the innocent. Unfortunately, he never expected her to come along and change his life so drastically. Nothing will be the same. AU Vampward. Rated M

Higher by SexyLexiCullen-rec'd by Mercyrus Tales
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9254112/1/Higher
Summer of 1994: Dial-up internet. Pagers. Walkmans. AOL chat rooms. O.J in a white Bronco. And blazingly hot weather in Brooklyn where eighteen-year-old Bella Swan is filling her days making ice cream sundaes before she starts college. But one long night – full of Ecstasy, subway rides, dark dance clubs, and a boy she doesn't want to stay away from – may change everything. Rated M

House of the Horde by Raggdolly-rec'd by Pawspeaches
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5447521/1/House-of-the-Horde
Bella endures the dark side of LA. After being abducted and taken into the Hollywood Hills, she learns that humans are not at the top of the food chain. Can she escape or will she fall victim to a treacherous vampire? Rated M

I Fell in Love by Anhanninen-rec'd by Susan Q Susan
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9247324/1/I-Fell-in-Love
Set in her ways and believing that the world only takes, reclusive Bella finds her life turned completely around when she meets a handsome and compassionate man. Love doesn't happen in one moment. It happens in every moment. Rated M

In Pursuit by Sarge’s Girls- rec'd by MizzezPattinson
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9154475/1/In-Pursuit
A normal night out changes everything for two innocent sisters, who stumble upon something that will change their lives forever. Two brave U.S. marshals have to keep them hidden and keep them safe. How far are they willing to go to do what's right? Are the consequences worth it all? AH/Canon Couples/Rated M

Shifting Gears by ChocolateSparrow- rec'd by MagTwi78
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9113467/1/Shifting-Gears
A race. A cyclist. A physio. He wants to win the Tour de France at any cost. She just wants to make it through without getting burned. A birthday gift for the lovely Erron. Rated M

Straight Up Interference by savannavansmutsmut-rec'd by Evilnat
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9166325/1/Straight-Up-Interference
Bella befriends Marcus, a mobster's son, and ends up interfering with a federal investigation. She's sent off to stay with Marcus's geeky antisocial uncle, who lives in a remote cabin, until things cool down with the Feds. It starts a little Marcus & Bella, but this is definitely a Bella & Edward story. AH Rated M for Lemons and Language. Rated M

The Bad Vampires Handbook by maxigrumpling-rec’d by MagTwi78/Evilnat
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9133049/1/The-Bad-Vampires-Handbook
Turned by accident, nerdy loner Eddie faints at the sight of blood and wakes, often, at the morgue. There's no handbook for what he's become. When the Cullen's discover him he needs a total vampire makeover and the OCD, hypochondria and his image of what he is all have to go. Bella is given the task of educating him. She thinks he's a joke, but likes the glasses. E/B HEA assured. Rated M

The Hole Shot by foreveraddicted-rec’d by Nic
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8080986/1/The-Hole-Shot
Bella Swan still woke up everyday. She went to work. She went out with her boyfriend. She kept breathing. Kept moving. But her heart? It doesn't beat, doesn't feel anything but pain. Anything but that hole that Edward Cullen left there five years ago. Rated M

The Songs of Our Lives by Luvtwilight4eva-rec’d by Rose Arcadia
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9125724/1/The-Songs-of-Our-Lives
This life is not an easy one. It's marked by two consistencies: life and death. Everything in between those are just...songs of one's life. Follow Edward and Bella as they contend with the various songs that have marked their lives. Copward, Cheaterward, Daddyward, Teacherella. Warning: major character death but a certain HEA is promised. Still interested? Happy reading! AH/AU/OOC. Rated M

Violent Delights by JadoreJAC-rec'd by Remmykins
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8915085/1/Violent-Delights
The world isn't so cut-and-dried; bad people can do good things and good people can be evil. He was everything. Beautiful, sharp, and intelligent, with a black heart that burned red just for me. Not everything that's real can be seen with the naked eye. Rated M

Friday, May 10, 2013

TLS's Flash-Fic Fridays are in full effect! Come and see who's flashing us this week: 5/10 - 5/15


FLASH FIC FRIDAY IS HERE


PLEASE JOIN US EACH FRIDAY TO SEE WHO'S FLASHING US

Each Friday a new prompt will be posted along with the previous week's winners

What exactly is a Flash-Fic? It's pretty much a spur of the moment, tiny story, prompted by words, images or silliness. Not sure if you've ever been on twitter when this has happened, but it's pretty awesome when it does. It also happens often in threads, with a combination of people contributing. 

How does it work? Each Friday one admin of TLS posts a picture prompt here to the blog. Using this image, entries are created. Entries must be 100-300 words ONLY. No more, no less. The entries are then judged and we post the winning submissions here, each Friday, to share with all of you.

THIS WEEK'S NEW PROMPT



You will have until next Wednesday at 9 p.m. EST to submit your entry.

Picture prompt and judge the week of 5/10 - 5/15 is by Obsmama.

 Please leave your submission in the comment section at the bottom of the post using this format:

Your name (use your Twitter, Facebook or FFN name)

Your link to your FFN profile if you choose to share it

Number of submission. Example: #1

Submissions will be judged on Thursdays and on Friday the winning entry will be posted here, on the TLS blog. 

This feature is open to everyone, so come one, come all!


LAST WEEK'S PROMPT AND WINNERS



FIRST PLACE WINNER

 DH78 on FFN, DH__78 on Twitter, Diamond Hart on FB
http://www.fanfiction.net/~dh78
Word Count: 297

Eighteen years.

It took us eighteen years to get here.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

You were ten and I was eight. Our parents took us to see it.

We were obsessed and you swore you were Buzz.

“To infinity and beyond!” We’d shout.

A sort of affirmation of being best friends.

I loved you then. You didn’t. I’m certain of it. But I didn’t mind.

Best friends. To infinity and beyond.

Years later, you took her to prom. Not me. But it didn’t matter because at the end of the night, it was you and me, drunker than drunk off your big brother’s stash, at the tattoo parlor.

It was so stupid... but so, so perfect.

To infinity and beyond. You said it was the right way to end this era and move on to our new lives miles apart.

I was losing you. I loved you then. You didn’t. I know it.

We moved on.

Emails, texts, phone calls. At once so frequent, then not.

Years went by without a word from you.

All the others were mere poor imitations of you.

Then...

Your brother’s wedding. I’m invited. I wonder if I’ll see you, if you’ll be different.

If this love is just an exaggeration of my memories.

But then, it’s so not.

You see me, I see you... from across the room. Like magnets.

You’ve changed, but you’re the same.

Words, apologies, and electricity. That’s what we are.

“I love you then,” you say. And I’m floored.

“I love you still,” you say, much later when we’re skin to skin.

Your fingers trace the words on my skin, trailing delicious fire, and I trace your words.

The branding of our skin echoing what’s been branded in our souls.

To infinity and beyond.


SECOND PLACE
@primarycolors1
http://www.fanfiction.net/~primarycolors
Word Count: 300

He was seventeen when she met him, all loose limbs and sweat and red dirt, a faded Cubbies shirt, baseball cap spun backwards while the pitching machine hummed. His jaw edged so dark she could almost feel the sandpaper rasp on her fingers, hair damp and curled up the sides of his hat, the pink of his tongue wet as he tensed for the next pitch.

She stood shy behind the bleachers. Breathless.

"Come here," he called softly, watching her too.

He made a show of twirling the bat before solemnly pointing it into the sunset. "For you," he said, winking, when a tremendous crack echoed around the field and then the ball was soaring, soaring into infinity and she bet no one ever found it.

They were lying on his bed when she asked why he always did that, what it meant to point his bat toward the heavens.

“To infinity and beyond,” he’d answered, green eyes playful. A Sharpie cap bobbed from the corner of his mouth as he drew a tiny baseball on her stomach. “It’s my thing... like a promise. I aim, then I hit a home run." He'd shrugged and nibbled his artwork.

Two years later she watches TV as she packs away her childhood. Youngest player ever to be signed, ESPN says. 9.9 million for five years.

She already knew.

Swallowing hard, she wonders how much of him she'll be able to keep.

“They called me Roy Hobbs,” he says, shining, bursting through the doorway. “The best that ever was.”

“Cuter than Robert Redford,” she adds with a watery smile, loving him too much. “To infinity.”

He sobers, his gaze holding a promise so rich her heart twists, almost afraid to hope.

“Beyond,” he whispers, pulling her in, kissing, pressing a ring into her palm.


THIRD PLACE 
   hallejaymes
www.fanfiction.net/~hallejaymes
Word count: 227

Finding relief under the warm spray, my fingers find the words.

To infinity.

My half of the promise.

The promise of us.

And I’ve come to learn, we are infinite.

Never ending.

~

And beyond.

Beyond.

The words you took with you.

They couldn’t be any truer. And now, they’re all I have to hold on to.

I know you’re still here.

Some nights I wake to the feel of fingers.

Gentle.

A whisper on my skin where the other half of us lies marked.

The way my skin responds, I know.

At times I think I’m dreaming. So I lie there, oh, so still. Desperate to stay in an alternate reality.

A reality I yearn to have back.

Last night I woke to the sensation of my hair being smoothed over.

The softest touch.

The most calming.

And I know.

I know what I have to do.

~

My last hope sits before me on the bed.

The beyond that took me a long time to come to terms with.

It had to be here.

This is where we knew each other best.

Where we learned everything there was to know about one another.

Inside and out.

Shaking, I place my fingers on the planchette, ready.

With a heart that’s about to beat out of my chest, I take a chance.

“Edward."


HONORABLE MENTION
Boom-Boom Jones
www.fanfiction.net/~boomboomjones
Word Count: 300

She’s been in remission for a year now. Her thinner hair touches her shoulders and her skin finally resembles what it was before. She can breathe and sleep and eat. At twenty-six, her bones are healthy as they can ever be, and it is a gift.

She’s promised herself she won’t ever be afraid.

The plane ascends, jostling passengers as it breaks through a layer of clouds. Her ears pop. She plugs them with her fingers, widens her jaw in a way that is unattractively excessive. The man across the aisle throws a crooked grin her way then offers up a stick of gum.

A flight attendant solicits snacks, and the man hands over ten dollars for two rum and Cokes.

Pretzels, too, please.

He moves to the empty seat next to her.

A child’s movie plays on the screen – something about a cowboy and a spaceman. She’s not really sure. Neither is he.

They talk about little somethings. Her ribs cage in acrobatic butterflies. He wonders where she’s staying, if she’s meeting anyone there.

Five hours later they awaken to the announcement that the weather at Heathrow is a perfect thirteen degrees Celsius. They’ll be landing shortly. She slides open the shade, peers through the window.

He cranes his neck, searching for proof they truly are over part of Europe. He’s not disappointed when he catches a glimpse of the Thames. It’s his first time, too.

“I am in love,” she says, staring out at the rapidly approaching city.

“How many times do you plan to fall?”

The question doesn’t catch her off guard.

She turns to him. “So many.”

He slides his hand over hers.

She’s been in remission for nearly two years. He slips her shirt over her head, traces the words scripted over her butterfly cage.


  HONORABLE MENTION
Honeybeemeadows
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/3889311/Honeybeemeadows
Word Count: 262

I shoot myself up with heroin and fuck a girl who looks just like you.

Her brand tastes like shit.

Her pussy smacks of low grade trash someone cooked in a bathtub. Her mouth is a big black hole. Her tits are lopsided and her hair isn’t long enough, but she has your eyes and a ring through her clit and I just can’t fucking help myself.

You always accused me of being an addict. I never told you that you were better than any drug.

I dig my fingers into her, bite her, treat her worse than I ever treated you but only because she’s asking me for it. Begging. Relishing every painful mark I leave behind. I slap her hard enough to leave a bruise and think about the one you left on my face, just before you vanished.

Since you’ve been gone, I’ve replaced all my blood with chemicals. All my love with lust. All my decency with this strung-out version of me and I can’t even bring myself to give a shit.

If I squint, I can pretend that she is you.

If I bury my face deep enough, I don’t have to squint at all.

Nothing relieves the ache. Nothing compares to your poison. Even when she cums on my face, it’s your taste. Even when she moans my name, it’s your voice. Over and over and over and I’m shooting for infinity. Shooting for beyond. Shooting for a million more moans. I don’t want to hear anything else, ever again.

Her words. Your voice.

BellaBellaBellaBella.


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