Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations.
SGA Shepfic x 1
Where the hell is he and which way should he go? Which way is safe? He staggers off anyway desperate to keep moving and quieten the noise in his head. Not safe. Run. Hide. Go. Don't go home. Hide.
SG1- Jackfic x 7
The thing about the blindfold was that you never knew from what direction the next blow would fall although sometimes he could sense the warmth of breath or a body close to him.
He stared at his reflection in the mirror and didn’t like what he saw.-the man in the mirror was scared.
“Yes sir. Just peachy. A little dinner and conversation followed by a trip to the local waterworks. Fine- General- just fine,” O’Neill replied squelching his way out of the Gate room handing his vest and weapon to the waiting SF's.
The General felt something else was going on here, the Colonel was wound up like a tightly coiled spring and it was sapping his energy.
Feverish and in pain, he was not a happy camper. He would pick up by morning. He just didn’t know it yet. Janet inspected the wound again, making Jack fling an arm out in response.
“Morning squirt,” he said as he pulled the curtains open with one hand. Charlie just gurgled and butted against his t shirt, one cheek red with teething.
Anyway, so he was about to set off for
Mag 7-Chris Larabee fic x 4
He felt out of balance, teetering on the edge of something unnamed, lurking beyond reach.
Chris’ eyes slid shut, lingering illness tugging his bones, but he nodded once before his breath slowly eased into deep slumber, knowing his friends were there for him.
“You’ve got flour on your nose.” he murmured, trying to halt her nervousness at his leaving, her worry that she wasn’t a perfect cook and one hundred other things he could never guess at
"You don’t know what you're asking me to do- it isn't going to be pretty. They’ll never forgive me for this."
The Sentinel- Jim Ellison fic x 1
“Sandburg, I can hear your brain working. Give it a rest will you.”
Okay so this entailed delving into very old fic on my pooter- as in 4 years old! I would love to finish some of these fics...
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alipeeps page a while back and onsheafrotherdon's today.The Listeners by Walter de la Mare
‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
‘Is there anybody there?’ he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
’Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:—
‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,’ he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.
Borrowed from
alipeeps. Who snurched from wraithfodder. And yes, I've watched way too much t.v, like that's a surprise. Many of the shows on the list are American and from over 35 years ago- so there are some I've never heard of let alone seen here in the UK...I added some to the list.( list of shows )
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celievamp via mrswomanI didn't realise how much Dickens I had been forced to read at school! There's still many "classic" books I want to read..eventually.According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
*5) star (*) them if you hate them.
( 100 list )
1.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien .
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte .
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling .
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee .
6. The Bible (and the Koran) .
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte .
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell .
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens .
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott .
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy .
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare .
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier .
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien .
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot .
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell .
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens .
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy .
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll .
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame .
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy .(think i HAVE to read this one ;-)
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens .
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis .
34. Emma - Jane Austen .
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen .
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis .
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini .
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres .
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden .
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne .
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell .
* 42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins .
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery .
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy .
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding . (I was at a girls school- so this didn't go over very well..)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan .
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen .
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens .
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck .
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt .
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie .
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville .
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens .
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker .
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett .
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath .
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome .
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray .
80. Possession - AS Byatt.
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens .
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro .
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert .
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton .
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad- but I have read Under Western Eyes
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Expury.
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams .
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas .
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare .
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl .
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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