Ficlet - Powerful Symbol - Star Trek

Symbols
Author - cornerofmadness
Disclaimer- not mine, heck even I wasn’t alive when this started…but I was born with mom watching an eppy! All rights belong to Mr. Roddenberry and his estate
Pairing – None, Spock & Bones friendship
Timeline – does it matter? Could there possibly be spoilers 40 years after the fact?
Summary – It means something to him
Author’s Note – written for the quotation meme I hijacked from lillypuff. This is written for aaronlisa who wanted Spock. Her quote was An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol – Coleridge, Biographia Literaria Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta

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( The <i>Enterprise </i>itself is a symbol )

Fic - To Live Afresh

To Live Afresh
Author – cornerofmadness
Disclaimer – still not mine
Rating – PG-13
Characters- Scar
Time Line/Spoilers – consider there to be spoilers up to the current chapter, definitely mangaverse
Summary – There are many things that he regrets
Warnings – none
Author’s Note – written for the fma_fic_contest for the prompt, Angst. First time for me writing Scar. Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta.
Word Count 646

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“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” – Henry David Thoreau

( Wrath had been branded into his soul )

Quotation Meme Finished

I completed the quotation meme That was fun and hey didn't take me as long as the lyric thing did. Here's the round up


A Powerful Symbol – Star Trek

A Reason to Go On NCIS

The Price of Being Late - FMA

The Bribe - Saiyuki Gaiden

first real day of spring break was gray

seriously, just cold rain for the fourth straight day. Oh well.

Samhain publishing rejected my novella...then again I expected them to. I wasn't expecting quite the hostile form letter though which made it clear I'm never to darken their door with this particularly story again. Blinks. Okay.I would have thought that clear anyhow but listening to some of the agents on my list, probably not.

I'm actually not very sad about it. silvrethorn had several good suggestions for it that I couldn't take because of the word count. I might fluff this up quite a bit and add that on in....maybe. We'll see what other publishers are looking for first.

Went to the doctor. Sigh. I need an MRI on my neck (knew that), need an endoscopy (knew that), need a study to see if my stomach is emptying right.I told her diabetes aside (diabetes slows this down) that it was possible. That's a real issue for BOTH sides of my family. We have bad guts. I'm pushing the stomach stuff until May. I mean I've had issues since I was 12. I'm not so worried about it.

Between my nexium (which ALSO slows digestion) and walmart I dropped 450$. THe one spring breaky thing in there was I treated myself to the NCIS sound track. So far I like it lots. But hell for that kind of dough I could have gone to Vegas or Florida like I had planned.


Finished The Watchmen . I got the feeling I always get when reading Alan Moore. THe emperor's wearing new clothes. I have never gotten his appeal. I've read Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta (which came the closest to me liking it) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...and about the only character I really liked was John COnstantine but not until Moore wasn't writing him.

I didn't hate the story. I was just completely indifferent to it. Now I remember why I expunged it from my mind. I had only Ozymandius and Rorshacks' outfits left in there. Saying you didn't like this in the 80's was like spitting on the flag or something. I think what bothered me was it didn't take me long to figure out the big mysteries in this. Laurie's background, who was the evil mastermind. About the only thing I didn't get right off was how the ending was going to be achieved. I think really the big issue for me is I don't particularly like dystopic texts and outside of Nite Owl, I didn't like any of them.