Leja

telling our stories, an uneven bootleg of memory and mythology, to anyone who will listen: the River Oaks story, the Galveston story, the romantic subplot in League City that changed ...

*flail* I have to decide what I'm sending! But I shall be sending something . I hope. XD

The picture could be too big to be an avatar; maybe you could try resizing it in paint?

It seems... very prosaic. And naming the old man as a Holocaust survivor, right away, seemed to almost ground it too much, in my opinion. Then, there wasn't really much ...

:bounces off the walls: One week!! *pokes Suzanne* me thinks I need a ranting buddy!

Third person, definitely! Easier to show relations between the character and the world around them, I think.

... when you deconstruct the things others say because you can totally build up the imagery they didn't even know they were using. Don't you just love countable and non-countable ...

Stay careful, ya'll, ya?

When you speak totally in words with alternate meanings and giggle when the people around you don't get it. When "purple" is not only a color, but now a verb ...

*I have the same problem; can you let me know how it turns out?*

Maitre D'Ombre

I was once shrouded in shadows so dark and deep that it seemed light could never peirce them. These shadows were unlike any you've ever seen. They had a life ...

141 abstract nouns x 236 concrete nouns = 33,276 possible combinations. XD "Irritation is like a table. Loss is like a can of Diet Coke. Pessimism is like a chocolate-chip ...

This is a really great idea! :D A FOURTH-GENERATION DRIFTER NOW LIVING IN CIRCUMSTANCES OF GREAT OPPORTUNITY IN A WONDERFUL PLACE [AND PLANNING TOO GRANDLY], WHO, AS AN AMERICAN STUDENT ...

Four! :D