SGH:SLDKFJ FINALLY, OMG. just two left, bbs!

title: the fair in the park by the sea in the dark
rating: pg
summary: for dogdaysofsummer, prompt day 29. also, apologies for any discombobulated-ness! /o\ (i wasn't originally planning to do this one; it sort of snuck up on me!)

( Sirius bounces impatiently, craning his neck to watch the (agonizingly slow) progress of the queue. )

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V IMPORTANT PS:
1. bigbangblackout is UP AND RUNNING, BBS! &hearts come and get your dose of Sirius.
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title: colder seas behind
rating: pg
summary: for dogdaysofsummer, prompt day 31. (no, i am not done yet; earlier prompts are still in the works!)

( He emerges from the sea at sunset, a bedraggled, salt-encrusted mess of black fur. )

title: just can't find the words
rating: pg-13
summary: for dogdaysofsummer, prompt day 15.

( Remus wakes as Sirius rolls out of bed, eyes tracing the familiar line of Sirius's back over the edge of his pillow. )

title: lord knows it would be the first time
rating: pg-13
summary: for dogdaysofsummer, prompts 6 & 7. title borrowed from The Smiths' "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want."

( Remus wakes to sunlight, nudging insistently through the half-drawn curtains. )

title: light dissembles the sky
rating: pg-13
summary: for dogdaysofsummer, prompt day 1.

( Past midnight, and they're outside, climbing awkwardly onto the roof of Remus's dad's car, an island in the tall grass. )

title: summer haze
rating: g
summary: for dogdaysofsummer, prompt day 5. i'm terribly out of practice; sorry! :S

( summer haze )

Title: down under and away
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: G
Word count: 281
Summary: OH so late. For dogdaysofsummer, prompts days 29 (Steven Wright) and 30: postcards. Inspired by pictures courtesy of my friend Sarah, who is studying abroad in New Zealand (and will be arriving back soon, whee!). Note: click the numbers if the pictures aren't working!

( The sound of the sea is the same here )

ETA: I tried reuploading the pictures to a different site; hopefully they work now!

Title: rule britannia
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: PG
Word count: 314
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, prompts days 8 and 9.

( He eyes the glass, and then Sirius' grinning face over the top of the glass, dubiously. )

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Author: glass_icarus
Rating: G
Word count: 86
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, prompt day 28.

( From the window, Remus watches him spinning: )

Title: la couleur du ble
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: G
Word count: 251
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, prompts days 26 & 27. Hogwarts-era; title borrowed from Le Petit Prince.

( The curve of the earth, he thinks, tilting his head back to gape at the scorching blue bowl of the sky. )

The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer -- all worked painfully upon the young man's already overwrought nerves. The insufferable stench from the pot-houses, which are particularly numerous in that part of the town, and the drunken men whom he met continually, although it was a working day, completed the revolting misery of the picture.

--Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment [1917]

Title: miserere mei
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: PG
Word count: 415
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, prompts days 24 and 25. Post-Hogwarts.

( Everywhere, he looks for the Order's man, finds only the ghost of Remus. )

the first humans landed on the moon in the early dawn hours of july 21, 1969, greenwich mean time.

Title: i was on the moon when [we] were born
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: G
Word count: 230
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, prompt day 21.

( Moony! Moony, look! )

"Presently we drove on and in another hour were hungry. We stopped at an inn, which was half farm also, and ate eggs and bacon, pickled walnuts and cheese, and drank our beer in a sunless parlour where an old clock ticked in the shadows and a cat slept by the empty grate."

--Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited [1944]

Title: le petit prince
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: PG
Word count: 355
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, prompts days 22 and (vaguely) 17. Post-Hogwarts-era.

( Remus gives it a dubious glance, but Sirius smiles and says it is perfect. )

"Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room."

--Annie Dillard, The Writing Life [1989]

Title: absence
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: PG
Word count: 198
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, prompts days 19/20.

( sweat-sheened skin starting on a summer glow )

But I love it, I love this city
How slender is the space between love, mercy and ill will
I love to live inside its flesh and blood
To feel its ailing pulse in its hidden veins

--Abd al-Sabūr, Ibhār [1940]
tr. from the original Arabic unknown

Title: (cette ville etait faite) a la taille d'amour
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: PG
Word count: 382
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, prompt day 7. OotP-era, with a slight GO crossover. ;) Title borrowed from Hiroshima Mon Amour.

( He sits on a bench in St. James' Park, watching the rain fall into the pond, the ducks paddling by with grave tranquillity despite the rising storm. )

alas, i am behind again! but at least this time i have the excellent excuse of having spent the weekend at the beach, which was joyous and inspirational and all manner of good things. :D except in the losing of my keys/IDs/laundry card/bank-related things because :O !!! (oh, and the sandflies, because- ITCH.)

Title: the other taste in sorrow's cup
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: PG-13 for nudity.
Word count: 464
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, prompts day 14 and 15: unfortunate tans and sunburns. MWPP, slash implied; title borrowed (once again) from Guy Gavriel Kay, The Last Light of the Sun.

( Sunscreen's for ponces. )

Covent Garden at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain. Cab whistles blowing frantically in all directions. Pedestrians running for shelter into the market and under the portico of St. Paul's Church, where there are already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress. They are all peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with his back turned to the rest, who seems wholly preoccupied with a notebook in which he is writing busily.

--Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion ACT I [1916]

Title: electrostatic
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: PG
Word count: 582
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, prompt day 13, above. AU.

( Arrivals in Heathrow have been delayed an hour. )

"Summer afternoon--summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

--Henry James

Title: passing afternoon
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 388
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, days 11 (above) and 12. Title stolen from Iron & Wine's song of the same name. Continued from here.

( Go t'sleep, Pads, she'll wake us when it's time. )

"My mother, who hates thunder storms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, lest swarms
Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there"

--Philip Larkin, Mother, Summer, I

Title: suddenly, out of the blue
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: PG-13? for a shameless (but non-suggestive) Sirius.
Word count: 545
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, prompt day 10. Hogwarts-era.

( Storm's coming. )

Previous prompts have eluded me thus far, but I promise I am working on them, oh yes. :D

"All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came."

--John F. Kennedy [September 1962]

Title: the long shore
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: PG
Word count: 433
Summary: For dogdaysofsummer, prompt day 6. PoA-era; title borrowed from a verse in Guy Gavriel Kay's The Summer Tree.

( Looking for a message in a bottle, Moony? )