heroslayer | Entries tagged with community: the ten spot

1. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (Claire tried to talk me into reading these. I got the first book and didn't get past the first chapter. It read like a sixth grader wrote it)
3. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (Someone who used to come into the shop had a dogeared copy of it he carried around all the time. I thought I'd see what it was about and never got around to reading it.)
4. Intervention by Julian May
5. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande (Bet you can guess why I bought this one. Of course, from what I understand now, it wouldn't have been that great a read.)
6. The Blooding: The True Story of the Narborough Village Murders by Joseph Wambaugh (Might go back and actually read this one sooner rather than later)
7. Bonk by Mary Roach (I didn't actually buy this one -- Baileigh bought it for me for Christmas a couple of years back. I read the other two, but I never did get around to this one.)
8. Nine Lives by Dan Baum
9. Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper by Patricia Cornwell
10. Atlas of Brain Function by William Orrison (Grey's Anatomy had mostly everything I needed in it. Everything else, I figured out on my own)

Current Mood: restless

( Cut for spoilers for Heroes 3x18 - The Wall & 3x19 - Brave New World )

Muse: Gabriel Gray (Sylar)
Fandom: Heroes
Word Count: 71

i.

"I have something for you."

Mohinder looks up, smiling. "What?"

His fingers curl around the box in his pocket. It's not a ring, that part of their relationship almost two weeks behind them, but it's just as good and he's just as nervous. So much so that he finds he can't find the words, no matter how much he wants this.

Somewhere in the distance, bells toll the start of the new year, giving him an out, and he darts around the table to crush his lips against Mohinder's, wordlessly. He has all the time in the world to ask later.

ii.

The new year comes with a raucous cry and an explosion of color, and despite the fact that he was damn sure he wouldn't be awake to see it, the sound is more than enough to rouse him from dozing. He shifts a bit, straying just far enough away from Claire to glance at the clock, and then he curls up around her again.

He waits, counting the minutes until the fireworks stop making the shadows shudder, and leans to brush a kiss over her lips. She smiles against his mouth, never really asleep either, and kisses him back, softly.

iii.

( "It's midnight on the East Coast." )

Muse: Gabriel Gray (Sylar)
Fandom: Heroes
Word Count: 1000
Note: Each of these ficlets are 100 words exactly. May I never, ever decide I want to do something like this again.

1. Considering how many people are already on the planet and how many people are born every day? Overpopulation. It might not be an end to humanity, but it'd sure as hell kill this planet faster than anything else.

2. Back when I was a kid, I remember being told that rainbows were God's way of promising that He'd never end the world in a flood again. I don't buy that. It might not be a rainstorm of biblical proportions this time, but I think the ice caps melting and the seas reclaiming everything still counts as a flood.

3. World War III, anyone?

4. There's a theory known as the Big Crunch theory -- it's basically the scientific opposite of the Big Bang Theory. The universe starts collapsing until all that's left is a black hole singularity. It might take awhile, but I'm pretty sure that'd end the world, don't you?

[Choices; locked] 5. People like Peter not being able to control themselves. I'm not saying it would be Peter, necessarily -- he's learned to keep a handle on himself since Kirby Plaza -- but still. [/locked]

6. Me. Oops?

7. Famine. This sort of goes along with my overpopulation theory. There are too many people and sooner or later, there won't be enough food to support everyone. The rich will hoard everything, the poor will starve to death, and then there'll be no one left to farm. If there's anywhere left to farm in the first place, considering what a good job people are doing raping this planet.

8. ~~Rocks fall, everybody dies.~~ The sun goes supernova, everybody dies.

9. In the history of the Earth, twelve ice ages have occurred. Another one wouldn't necessarily destroy the world, but it would kill everyone, just like it killed off the dinosaurs, and we'd be nothing more than a stain in the history books for whatever species came after us.

10. Not with a bang but a whimper.

Muse: Gabriel Gray (Sylar)
Fandom: Heroes
Word Count: 318

Before people start getting bright ideas, these are in no particular order.

1. Mohinder
2. Claire
3. Adam
4. Molly
5. Baileigh
6. Sark
7. Nathan
8. Peter
9. Nakamura. Not for the reasons you think; I like having the thorn in my side.
10. Angela, I guess.

Muse: Gabriel Gray (Sylar)
Fandom: Heroes
Word Count: 38

1. A cop (age 10)
2. The Grim Reaper (age 11)
3. A knight (age 12)
4. Dracula (age 13)
5. A ghost (age 14)
6. Mild-mannered watchmaker (age 25)
7. Serial killer (age 26)
8. Serial killer again (age 27)
9. The Phantom of the Opera in the Red Death outfit (age 28)
10. Baileigh Solis (age 29). What? She's going as me -- I had to return the favor.

Needless to say, I wasn't the most creative person, growing up -- or my mother wasn't, at least. I like to think I've gotten better as I've gotten older.

Muse: Gabriel Gray (Sylar)
Fandom: Heroes
Word Count: 80

Sylar

Entries tagged with community: the ten spot

for thetenspot: ten books you bought but never read

for thetenspot: ten songs

for thetenspot: ten new year's kisses

for thetenspot: ten ways you think the world might end

for thetenspot: ten people you couldn't live without.

for thetenspot: ten halloween costumes you've worn

Profile

February 2013

Syndicate

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags