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"Compass Rose" Shard“Thank you.” I bowed as the twilight watchman handed me two mugs of hot chocolate. He grunted his reply and turned to the next shivering traveler. It wasn't snowing. Not yet. But the grass slumbered beneath a curtain of ice, which luminesced in the frothy moonlight, crunching beneath my feet. The air was too still and frigid for clouds. My nose had long since decided the world was too cruel and abandoned the warm reassurance of my nerve endings. I sniffed against the cold. From all around me came the clinking of silverware, the comfort "Compass Rose" Shard
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The Time DanceSleet lashed the windows with frothy whips, making the tap-tap sound of a childhood friend throwing pebbles from the sidewalk below. Rumors of a wooden desk, the hint of a chair--they swam up from the dark like rickety buckets, drunkenly hauled from the depths of a stone well. Where the rusty squawk of an ancient pulley should have penetrated the night, Raewyn instead heard the shrieks of the weathervane on the roof, the creaky complaints of wooden cross-beams as her home subjected itself to the whims of a winter wind.

Raewyn struggled awake, swimming up from her own personal darkness. The hairs rose on the nape of her nec The Time Dance
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An Informational Update!

Tue Mar 17, 2009, 7:02 AM

The Rose project has about two chapters left on it! (Announcer Voice

Now, the race is on... Sam must finish his manuscript before the hacker competition on the 26th... or risk losing his groove... FOR EVER.

Okay maybe not forever. But after three solid days (NO SLEEP!) of network attack and defense, it's hard to think about imagery and story rhythm instead of SSL hijacking and Apache vulnerabilities. Wish us luck!

In other news, now you can follow me on Twitter and hit me when you don't think I'm writing enough! [link]

In other-other news, people are complicated. Maybe I'll have to bake some cookies and eat them all alone. Take a bubble bath. Write some poetry.

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Mood: Neutral
Listening to: Francesca Battistelli - Free to Be Me

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Favourite movie: Either "The Illusionist" or "Sleepless in Seattle", I can never decide which.
Favourite band or musician: Addison Road
Favourite poet or writer: Too many! It changes on a weekly basis. Right now it's probably Jeanne DuPrau.
Operating System: Ubuntu! <3
Skin of choice: ...This is such a weird question.
Favourite cartoon character: The terror who flaps in the night! But I identify with Wile E. Coyote.
Tools of the Trade: Pen and paper, keyboards of various sizes and colors, Writer's Bludgeoning Tools™

Website: http://avalon-skies.blogspot.com

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~thebodzio Nov 7, 2008, 5:35:54 PM

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Qui et quamobrem?

~AwkwardSylence Oct 7, 2008, 12:45:45 PM

You should put Time Dance on here or something.

~AvalonSkies Nov 6, 2008, 10:44:08 PM

Hush, you.

~AwkwardSylence Nov 7, 2008, 1:25:51 AM

It took you a month to put it up here. Not bad.

~cmdrkettch Sep 22, 2008, 3:43:28 AM

*waves fist* Happy now? :-P

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Carry on.

~AwkwardSylence Sep 16, 2008, 1:57:32 PM

You should put stuff on this site, mate. Just a thought.

~AvalonSkies Sep 21, 2008, 4:22:58 PM

Yeah-yeah, I will, worry not. But you know I'm working on DAT OTHA PROJECT right now. I'll ink something and tack it up when I need a break. (Which may be soon...)