Odd Girl Out ([info]strawintowords) wrote in [info]paintbyletters,
@ 2006-11-27 17:41:00
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Your prompt for the... week, I suppose, is

TOUCH


Touching fabric or skin or someone's heart, touched in the head or by an angel. Take any spin on the word you like. Have fun with it and try to approach it in as inobvious a way as possible, or just go with whatever first pops into your head.

♥ Stefanie

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[info]justawetdream
2006-11-27 09:14 pm UTC (link)
There was no such thing as God. There was no god, there were no angels, there were no demons, and there was no devil. That was what Tobin believed. That was what he believed before he entered his first relationship. After that, he believed in the devil, and the devil had a name -- the name of an abusive lover, or the name of his own father. Sometimes he woke up and his skin still ached from remembered bruises.

When he left high school and entered college, he met demons. Demons were people who were awful and horrible to those they looked down on, and put on pedestals by those who looked up to them. Demons were the people who shouted at him, slashed his tires, stole his books (and burned them), and who tried to beat him up. But Tobin had learned from his mistakes, and now he knew how to inflict a few bruises of his own.

When he found his next lover, he believed in angels -- or just one angel. The angel that he woke up next to every morning, the angel he wished he could protect, the angel who put him to sleep with a word or caress. Someone who reminded him of who he had been before he met Satan and fled from his demons. This was a touch he didn't flinch from, as he had from all the others before. This was one he was willing to return, willing to give himself up to.

He waited, now. He saw his angel cornered by the demons and hurt. He helped him heal, and he sat up nights waiting for God to show. He believed in everything else, now it was God's turn. After all, someone had to save angels if humans couldn't. He waited patiently, watching over his sleeping lover, and waited for a God to believe in.

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[info]justawetdream
2006-11-27 09:16 pm UTC (link)
Note: -- and I totally swear I got all that out of touch. My drabbles never look like my prompts. For the fail, me.

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[info]dreamsofstars
2006-11-28 01:15 am UTC (link)
That's /beautiful/. Hot damn, Gryphy!

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[info]justawetdream
2006-11-28 06:50 am UTC (link)
♥ Dovey. ^_^

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I hope you don't mind...
[info]coffeewimp
2006-11-30 09:43 pm UTC (link)
that I linked to this prompt from my writers' exercises blog. It's a wonderful one--both the prompt and the above response!

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Re: I hope you don't mind...
[info]justawetdream
2006-12-01 12:34 am UTC (link)
... Mind? XD You just made my week.

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Re: I hope you don't mind...
[info]shelightsupwell
2006-12-01 12:38 am UTC (link)
I don't mind at all! I hope it elicits more lovely responses.

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