one thousand and one nights

Tarte's Story Blog

don’t panic

sometime in the interim after “Cut Loose” but before “Drift” by asherdashery, although kind of different and weird, because we didn’t have all these characters before, and Kaleb was Dog. i feel like we should title this series, but enh.

i don’t know what to do with this anymore blaaaahhh get out of my drafts

“‘Cause yeah, everybody here’s got somebody to lean on.”

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the dryer is broken

Stark and new and white,

the linens flap in the crisp breeze,

waving like kerchiefs

from the deck of a departing ship.

Their clean whiteness

contrasts with the cloudless blue of the sky.

We sit between the rows of laundry,

you and I,

ignoring our other work

(the sun rising higher in the sky)

and watching the sheets flutter like birds’ wings,

wondering if it’s warmer

in Florida.

we look like animals

wow the pacing for this is really weird

also it ends kind of abruptly, but i can’t think of how to keep going

From the moment he’s known Lyall Sinclair’s secret, Simon hasn’t really been able to reconcile that huge lanky beast with the tall, rather forgettable doctor, which is maybe why one night after they tear apart twenty or so zombies between the two of them, he reaches out and ruffles the wolf’s ears.

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Eight Months

“It’s very nice,” Steve says dutifully, and Nat rolls her eyes extravagantly, dropping her arms.

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finish it

i had so many feelings i just up and wrote a thing

Set during Civil War, based on the events of Civil War #7, Tony’s PoV

Tony Stark is just so tired.

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nightlight

“Didja know,” says Holly conversationally one morning as they lie companionably together, “that your eye can like, kinda shine through your eyelid?”

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