I had a completely draining day involving a lot of mail. But my good twin artaxastra asked for drabbles, and lo, two came forth. (Well, very short ficlets slightly over 100 words, to be precise.) They start with sentences of hers, for she has reactivated the first line meme, which we did last year.

No spoilers beyond the third season of...

( Angel the Series drabble, featuring Justine )

And as this is my day for secondary characters who don't get much fanfic love, how about someone in the GFFA?

( Star Wars drabble, featuring Jocasta the Librarian and Dooku )


And now, since I'm now completely out of energy and need to be resupplied by other people writing stuff, I'm doing the meme as well:

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a drabble with the same first line as one of my stories, and leave it in my comments here. Any fandom, any pairing or gen, and you can interpret "drabble" as loosely as you want.

Some lines of my stories written since artaxastra and self last did this meme:

Standing on a boat on a windy day in March, you feel the cold creeping up your fingers.

Adjusting to the new life in the Roanoke Colony was not easy for any of the new arrivals, but Petros and Wanda were more lost than most.

Later, G’Kar never was quite sure what came first: deciding that Londo Mollari was the most irritating man alive, or deciding to seduce his wife.

She liked secrets.

Now that he has no fingers made of flesh left and what remains of his skin will never feel anything but the metal of medical droids and the suit they keep him in, he seems to remember every single thing he ever touched.

Last night I got the news that my grandfather had died.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that the last thing a ship on a covert mission needs is an unannounced visitor.