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sickle_stories ([personal profile] sickle_stories) wrote2007-05-12 07:11 pm

Bits of Fics

300 Dilios fanfic - Chapter: One Man Army

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Servants of the Dark

“But it’s never safe to sit out the door, m’dear.”

Nit, Prologue or Subclause of SotD

stripped of harp,
halo and wings
then sent hurtling
into darkness”


- August 2002 Review in “Books” Section of Globe and Mail (can't recall neither title nor poet)

In the light of the body is the eye.
If, therefore, thine eye be clear,
thy whole body shall be full of light,
but if thine eye be evil,
thy whole body shall be full of darkness.


- Mathew VI 22

Into the dark places, the boggy places, where night came upon me and would not let me go.

- Snow in Summer, Sister Emily’s Lightship and Other Stories by Jane Yolen

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All those time-traveling occasionally-or-cyclically amnesiac Mary Sue stories deserve this sorry little quote from “The Traveler and the Tale”, by Jane Yolen, in Sister Emily’s Lightship and Other Stories:

I am a traveler,” she would cry out, and weep.

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I really ought to make the whole Floyd subclause of A Tricky Business into an original story. By which I mean, the whole Floyd-backstory, his entrepreneurial aspirations and pimping-on-the-side.

Consider:

Names found in the staff of the film The Number 23:

Rainer Wolfe

Degrees of Freedom:

“My father was the Keeper of the Truth.”
“But that truth has been revealed.”