[je] arco iris
who is dancing with these rainbow colours in the sky? – Tsuyoshi starts his mornings looking at the sky. He sits in the back of manager-san’s car, Koichi sometimes beside him. Outside, the sun is not up yet, the skies still dark and hushed. Koichi, too, is quiet in his seat, slumped against the headrest and … Read more
[je] valse
Koichi did ten months at Julliard, in the dance department. He didn’t much like ballet or tap and was too short, frankly, for competitive ballroom. “You understand,” his advisers told him, “it would look very strange to lead a partner taller than you. The aesthetics of it,” they said rather mournfully. And Koichi said yes I … Read more
[naruto] and my path crossed yours (though we never met)
There are only three stripes of sunlight between them, red and gold like sunset-blood soaking into the forest floor. “Oh,” she says; and then: “Hello.” – Sakura never sends them, never tells anyone, but she writes letters to Sasuke, every week for three years. Dear Sasuke-kun: they always begin, and then a carefully drawn smiley face. … Read more
[gokusen ii] where you stop your story
“The best stories have no ending,” Hayato read in a book once. It was a quotations book, given to him by his third grade teacher when Hayato had had to transfer schools again. Inside, it was full have weird sayings like ‘never rely on the glory of morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law’ or … Read more
[band of brothers] i say no world can hold a you
Lewis (he’s Lewis these days, uncomfortable and awkward, no longer Lew but not yet Nixon) marries Cathy on a Saturday in mid-autumn. His mother sits in the front pew, elegant and poised and thin-lipped, with her perpetual air of vague disapproval. Lewis doesn’t look at his father. Cathy’s pretty and radiant, of course–she’s not beautiful … Read more
[je] tomorrow is something we remember
Koichi’s relativity phase lasts for a few months before he moves on to quantum theory. Tsuyoshi makes faces about it over lunch to Kamisen: Ken, who does not pay any particular attention; Go, who nods at the right places and so makes a passable pretense at listening; and Okada, who as ever looks on with … Read more
[je] 10 songs meme
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like. 2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle. 3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. 4. Do ten of these, then post them. note: all the songs are on imeem: i, ii, iii, iv, v. translations to i, iv, and … Read more
[je] la cosa nostra
The extortion cases are easy. Taichi does most of the talking; smiles honey-sweet, pushing papers and contracts across glossy oakwood tabletops. “Sign here,” he says, “and here. And here,” pointing with a pen. (Pelikan’s Souveran 805 fountain pen, dark blue with a rhodium-designed 18kt gold nib. Taichi pays attention to details.) Nagase stands behind Taichi, … Read more
[je] death to the french is italy’s cry
No one in la cosca really knows how Nagase became sotto capo. He’s not particularly bright to begin with; bad at basic arithmetic, even worse at political subterfuge and intrigue subtleties. He laughs too loud and has no sense of discretion and frequents seedy clubs and wears his suits rumpled. More thug than mafia, really. … Read more
[p&p] one art
one art is about 1. Fitzwilliam Darcy, a brilliant astrophycist from CalTech. He’s in Switzerland at CERN, doing some very smart-people and very esoteric research on particle physics and dark matter and black holes. He thinks String Theory is silly and ridiculous, because, really, eleven dimensions?; has his own “Theory of Everything”; does not believe … Read more
