Title: Kumo
Author: goodbye_sun
Rating: For the first time ever - G
Warnings: None.
Created for a monthly challenge at: simhaven
Prompt: Pick any myth, legend or fairytale and provide an interpretation of the events from the point of view of one of the central figures.
Summary: The Japanese word kumo carries with it two meanings. This tale explains why it is one word is both spider and cloud.
Authors note: Even as a child, long before I learned to weave, this was one of my favourite stories. In fact, this is the version I read.

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Title: Speechless
Author: goodbye_sun
Rating: M
Warnings: Course language.
Created for a monthly challenge at: simhaven
Prompt: Write a first person narrative about being, or having a secret admirer.
Author's Note: This is part of the world created for my minirimo. This takes place prior to Shape Shifter.

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Taken for a monthly challenge at simgenix. Give me your heart – complete a photo shoot that features at least four different hearts in each image.
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Title: Shape Shifter
Rating: M
Warnings: One occurrence of course language, sexual references.
Created for a monthly challenge at: simhaven
Prompt: Incorporating the three words - cross, ship and book into the context of a story.
Summary: Some things are best left unsaid; others should never be said in anger.
Author's Note: November’s challenge, but just a bit longer. This is part of the universe I created for my minirimo. There are excerpts posted if anyone wants to just to get a better feel for this world.

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Taken for a monthly challenge at simgenix - Interpretation of the meaning and of a flower. Of course I have to be annoying and pick a plant rather than a flower...the fern is magic and fascination.

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Taken for the monthly challenge at: simgenix
Prompt: red is…
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Title: End of the Line
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Created for a monthly challenge at: simhaven
Prompt: Theme - horror & supernatural. Write an entire plot within one sentence. To showcase this plot more fully, you're asked to take three screencaps.
Summary: She thought she knew these roads like the back of her hand…
Author's Note: So technically it’s more thriller than horror but it’s the story that got stuck in my head.

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Taken for the monthly challenge at: simgenix
Prompt: red is…
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Taken for the monthly challenge at: simgenix
Prompt: Interpretation of a song.
Song: Holly Throsby - Making A Fire
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Title: Sunburn
Rating: M
Warnings: course language, sexual references
Written for monthly challenge at simhaven
Prompt: Interpret the following quote - He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Summary: Rowan’s train journey yields a life changing experience.
Author's Note: It ended up different than I intended, so I will claim it has a dream like state that sort of complies with the prompt. Maybe. Characters portrayed are over the age of consent.

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Rating: M
Warnings: language, violence, simulated blood
Written for a monthly challenge at simhaven
Prompt: Write a letter or read a letter. The letter should describe a recent pivotal event that has affected the writer and be in the First Person Narrative Form
Summary: Just a small glimmer into a dark world where personal freedoms and information are tightly controlled.

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