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Archive for September, 2008

Midlife Crisis 3

Tifa met me at the door to Seventh Heaven. “That explosion. That was you, wasn’t it?”

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Letters: Unspoken

Neither one of them spoke, as if asking would jinx it. Words and sentences would mean thinking about what was happening. Better to just go with it.
Cloud’s hands were in Vincent’s hair, tightly tangled, but the taller man didn’t care. His attention was on Cloud’s lips and neck, how smooth the skin was.
This wasn’t about [...]

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Vacation

“Next time I take a vacation, I’m going alone,” Hojo grumbled. He was sitting on the narrow bench in the Gold Saucer holding cell and considering the logistics of releasing an airborne mutagen to make them all suffer.
“You’d have to quit before they let you, old man.” Reno laughed, sitting on the floor.
“That’s sounding better [...]

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Letters: Training Exercise

“Don’t miss, pretty boy.”
“Don’t distract me.”
“You have to learn how to work under stress.”
“The entire point of sniping is that I’m way up here, away from anything that could possibly distract me except for a few amorous pigeons.”
“And yet distractions keep coming. Me, for instance. Or that woman in the skimpy bikini behind the target–”
“You [...]

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Nothing

It was quiet here. Peaceful, almost. Squall could appreciate that. After the fighting, the yelling, that indescribable noise at the end- he hadn’t even known what it was, only that it stopped, and the silence was its own kind of noise.
He started walking, having nothing better to do, and wondered where Ultimecia had flung him. [...]

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