[Prompt] #53: Darkness

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If you're visiting us for the first time, we're glad to have you. Feel free to jump in and have a go at our latest prompt.

This week's prompt is... #53: Darkness.

If you'd like to read over the definition of the word "darkness", click here for Merriam-Webster's official write up.

Please follow the posting format in the official fiction_drabbles profile, and remember to keep it to 100 words!

reaching an understanding.

[lovepeaceohana]

Title: reaching an understanding.
Challenge/Prompt: #53: Darkness
Fanfiction: The One Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin
Characters: Nahadoth, Sieh
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimer for fanfiction: I didn't create these characters or this world; they belong to N.K. Jemisin (nojojojo ). I make no profit from playing in her (totally wicked awesome) sandbox.
Summary: Nahadoth and Sieh reach an understanding.
Author's Notes: A "missing moment" from the canon. Also: GO READ THIS BOOK NOW KTHANX.

( A son did not defy his father. )

Title: jealousy.
Challenge/Prompt: #53: Darkness
Fanfiction: Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber
Characters: Meg.
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimer for fanfiction: I didn't create these characters or this world; they belong to Gaston Leroux, Andrew Lloyd Weber, and other assorted copyright-holders. I'm making no profit from this.
Summary: Meg's curiosity gets the better of her.
Author's Notes: There's a sequel coming out. Didn't you know?

( let your fantasies unwind... )

impromptu city lights with inks and ashes on them

[delight]

Finally I am actually posting to this community! -- with stuff I wrote on a tiny pad of paper while working and wrote by hand. What are lunchbreaks for if not posting stories?


Title: city lights
Challenge/Prompt: #53, Darkness
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original
Characters/Pairings: Casey and Wilson (mentions of Kevin)
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Kevin, who is only talked about, is distractionary's.
Summary: There are still lights on outside at 3am.

( Outside, everything was still alive. )

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Title: Impromptu
Challenge/Prompt: #46, Mistake
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original
Characters/Pairings: Lee (Ryan/Lee)
Rating: G
Warnings: Consensual adult/teenage relationship; one is 16 and the other 28.
Disclaimer: Ryan is also distractionary's.
Summary: Lee's been wrong a lot.

( This, she knew, was wrong. )

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Title: ink & ashes
Challenge/Prompt: #44, Home
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original
Characters/Pairings: Nostariel (but actually about her parents)
Rating: G
Warnings: None unless grieving is not your thing.
Disclaimer: I bet you are not surprised to know that the father in question is also distractionary's and all other characters are mine.
Summary: Grief itself can gather dust.

( The old house was like a shrine -- or, to be more honest, some of it was. )