#week 73

Week 73 Prompts:

“Sometimes I can’t believe that you actually chose me.” -> “I have great taste.”

“That was way out of line.”

“What do you mean ‘maybe’? That was a yes or no question.”

If I Lie (Maybe I'll Believe It) by weepingvirtue

15/?

At sixteen years old, Tommy knew so many things.

He knew that people were predictable and selfish. He knew not to trust, not to take, and not to get comfortable for too long. He knew that the concept of family was as fake as the highlights in his foster mother's hair.

Tommy had known for years that life was painful and had no extra love for some ratty foster kid like him. He knew that it was him and his copy of The Odyssey against the whole world. He knew that he only had to survive long enough to make it to his eighteenth birthday before he could escape.

But when Tommy ends up fostered in the Watson household completely by chance, he finds that maybe he never knew anything in the first place.

or, the one in which Tommy Innit has never really experienced love, family, or belonging, and is suddenly surrounded by it all at once.

Forfeit by SilverWing15

5/5

The crowd that had gathered to see two Brutes fight is already dissipating, going back to trading now that their entertainment is gone. One of them snorts, “you accepted the Forfeit. That Runt is yours now.”

“What?!” the Brute demands.

“You should not have caught it if you did not want it,” another piglin says, a grizzled Elder, one ear torn in half, leaving a twisted, scarred stump. There is still an earring pierced through what remains of it shining with gold and gems.

“She threw a baby,” the Brute holding the Runt says. “I was just supposed to what--let it hit the ground?”

The one-eared Elder shrugs.

wander by wednesdayevening

1/1

“Hold hands,” says Kristin.

Tommy scrunches up his nose, like holding Kristin’s hand is the most detested thing in all of time and space. “I most certainly will not,” he says, and then scampers off.

CONFESSIONS ★ WEEK 73: @iridescentides

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Here is week 73, Everlark lovers! As always, thank you to these amazing authors who provide me with endless amounts of entertainment. You are all amazingly talented! Readers-please make sure you show these authors some love!

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On Borrowed Time - panskiss123

My Fate is in Your Hands - @historywriter2007

A Tangled Web - llmarmalade

A Different Way - @everlarkingjoshifer

Discord and Rhyme - Ally147 aka @ally147writes

Cosa Nostra - @shesasurvivor

Elsewhere - jennajuicebox aka @everafter37

Blessing of a Lifetime - everlarklover1960

Mail Order - @gabzep

Ellipses - @geekymoviemom

The Redo - redheadedflame

Feast Your Eyes - @savvylark & lovelytothebone aka @lovely-tothe-bone

Get What You Want? - llmarmalade aka @demisexualkatnisseverdeen

Sister Wife - alliswell aka @alliswell21

Within These Walls - @ryrous

Waiting by Ha Jin (哈金), né Jin Xuefei (金雪飞). 1999. 

Prolific Liaoning-born Chinese American poet and novelist Ha Jin is known for his connection to the Misty Poetry movement and compelling fictional narratives. Many of his books are set in the fictional Chinese Muji City and explore themes of military, sacrifice, love, and fragile humanity framed within politics. 

Recipient of the 1999 National Book Award, Waiting is based on a true story Ha Jin heard from his wife’s family when they were visiting at an army hospital. An army doctor waits nearly two decades to divorce his wife to marry his longtime girlfriend, an army nurse. Lin Kong, the army doctor, is portrayed as a well-meaning but weak-hearted man incapable of fully separating himself from his wife Shuyu while romantically pursuing nurse Manna Wu. Waiting is an empathetic and critical character study, navigating the changing emotions of these three central characters, their tenuous but irrevocable interdependence.