| Something Stupid |
[11 Oct 2006|09:54am] |
Title: Something Stupid
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi and Rents
Prompt: 077 - What?
Word Count: 977
Rating: R
Notes: Malachi doesn't drink. Usually. Malachi, Rents, mention of Paul and Joshua. Brief mention of masturbation. Language. Bodily fluids.
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| Close |
[24 Sep 2006|10:18pm] |
Title: Close
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi, Paul and Andy
Prompt: 002 - Middles
Word Count: 485
Rating: PG
Notes: Malachi, Paul, and Ren and Stimpy
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| Bug Eyes |
[01 Sep 2006|12:00pm] |
Title: Bug Eyes
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi and Paul
Prompt: 009 - Months
Word Count: 635
Rating: PG
Notes: Malachi is around 22-years-old. He and Joshua live in a small apartment in NYC. Paul and Andy are married and have recently had their third child, a little girl named Michaela.
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| Malachi - Twenty-four Hours Later |
[29 Aug 2006|10:42pm] |
Title: Twenty-four Hours Later
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi and Paul
Prompt: 024 - Family
Word Count: 700
Rating: PG-13
Notes: After weeks of traveling, Joshua and Malachi squat in a run-down motel and make an unlikely friend. This takes place after they've settled in there and Joshua has called Malachi's older brother to let him come and visit. He hasn't seen his brother in over four years.
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| Malachi - Hedge-forts and Rocket Ships |
[23 Mar 2006|11:40am] |
Title: Hedge-forts and Rocket Ships
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi
Prompt: 007 - Days
Word Count: 824
Rating: R
Notes: Malachi is eighteen-years-old. He's been in the park for about 4 weeks, spending his time tricking to score drugs, doing drugs, wash, rinse, repeat. If this intro note sounds familiar, it should. I've been struggling with this portion of his story and re-tooling things a bit. Previously, Malachi made a very conscious decision to get off drugs and head home. (Home being his not-quite-boyfriend's place.) I've since questioned the likelihood of a kid with a 6+ year heroin habit being able to make that decision and force himself to travel all the way across town to a place where he knows he's going to have to detox. (Especially when he's failed at it once.) So! Things are a little different. He will go back, but he'll go back because he needs help and at this point in his life, he is still caught up in a cycle of using. (Using drugs and using people who will help him.) He'll make the choice to detox--but it won't be a choice he has very long to think about. He needs a little push--or in this case a heavily locked door. At any rate, here's a bit leading up to that. Warnings for violence and rape, drug use, and prostitution.
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| Malachi - It's Good to Have a Plan |
[01 Feb 2006|12:39pm] |
Title: It's Good to Have a Plan
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi
Prompt: 008 - Weeks
Word Count: 513
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Malachi is eighteen-years-old. He's been in the park for a few weeks, spending his time tricking to score drugs, doing drugs, wash, rinse, repeat. His muse mommy is disappointed in his behavior. Warnings for mention of prositution and drug use.
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| Malachi - Sidewalks and Footpaths |
[28 Dec 2005|03:04pm] |
Title: Sidewalks and Footpaths
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi
Prompt: 063 - Summer
Word Count: 1650
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Malachi is eighteen-years-old. After trying and failing to detox on his own, getting in a huge fight with Joshua, and leaving his dealer's house after a confrontation, he's living in a park on the other side of the city. This is probably the first first-person piece I've done for him that isn't something he 'wrote' himself. So I'm nervous about it. There aren't really any warnings. Vague mention of drug use and prostitution.
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| Malachi - Rattling |
[19 Dec 2005|03:53pm] |
Title: Rattling
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi and Rents
Prompt: 006 - Hours
Word Count: 1062
Rating: R
Notes: Malachi is eighteen-years-old. For the first time in six years, he's trying to break his heroin addiction. The way he sees it, if he can do this on his own, he'll be 'good enough' for Joshua. Joshua, on the other hand, just wants him safe, and healthy, and clean. This is a look at Malachi's solo attempt, the first in a life-changing series of events.
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| Malachi - Prism |
[02 Dec 2005|11:35am] |
Title: Prism
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi and Don
Prompt: 085 - She
Word Count: 181
Rating: G
Notes: At around 17-years-old, Malachi lives in a cheap hotel room with a drag queen named Don. This is a small vignette, Malachi thinking about Don and the room.
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| Malachi - Not Enough |
[01 Dec 2005|08:28pm] |
Title: Not Enough
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi and Joshua
Prompt: 034 - Not Enough
Word Count: 916
Rating: R
Notes: After hanging out with Joshua for a long afternoon, Malachi returns to the house he's crashing in, gets high, and wangsts about their friendship and his life in general. He's 18-years-old.
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| Malachi - Everything Buzzes |
[28 Nov 2005|01:02pm] |
Title: Everything Buzzes
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi and Joshua
Prompt: 087 - Life.
Word Count: 415
Rating: G
Notes: After months of living out of Joshua's old Volkswagon bus on a cross-country meandering journey, Malachi and Joshua settle down at a run-down hotel in the Florida panhandle. Malachi is 19.
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| Paul and Andy - My Parents Fell in Love Over Dirty Socks |
[21 Nov 2005|03:12pm] |
Title: My Parents Fell in Love Over Dirty Socks
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Paul and Andy
Prompt: 027 - Parents.
Word Count: 1087
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Michaela's parents meet in New York. Paul Bridget is Malachi's older brother. When Paul is 20, Malachi (then 14) has been missing for two years.
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| Malachi - Tip Toe |
[11 Nov 2005|11:45am] |
Title: Tip Toe
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi
Prompt: 033 - Too Much
Word Count: 257
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Malachi reacts (or doesn't) to witnessing a drug overdose.
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| Malachi - Apples from Chile |
[01 Nov 2005|04:27pm] |
Title: Apples from Chile
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi
Prompt: 035 - Sixth Sense
Word Count: 925
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Malachi spends windy afternoon at the docks with an older girl he calls Piggy--after the way she wears her hair. They talk about wishes and senses.
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| Malachi - Wish Fountain, 16 or so |
[01 Nov 2005|04:23pm] |
Title: Wish Fountain
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi
Prompt: 048 - Diamond
Word Count: 215
Rating: PG
Notes: He stops at fountains, studying every breathing arch and flow and the wishes below the surface.
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| Malachi - Mirrors Make my Stomach Hurt, 13 or so |
[27 Oct 2005|04:04pm] |
Title: Mirrors Make my Stomach Hurt
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Malachi
Prompt: 040 - Sight
Word Count: 357
Rating: PG
Notes: Malachi was away for more than a year before really looking closely at the boy in the mirror.
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| Michaela - Detention Essay, Eighth Grade |
[27 Oct 2005|02:56pm] |
Title: About Me
Verse/characters: Rare Birds, Michaela
Prompt: 001 - Beginnings
Word Count: 762
Rating: PG
Notes: The story begins in the middle. Michaela Bridget writes a detention essay about herself--and her parents--and her uncles.
At five-thirty in the afternoon, the sun started to warm the fifth-story eighth grade classroom to a dull, dusky orange. Sitting in the back row, a girl with long curly hair considered the gap that the open window left. If she threw an eraser, could she make it through? Would it fall? How far would it fall? What would it land on?
"Miss Bridget?" the detention counselor reminded her. "We're writing essays?"
"Yes ma'am," she mumbled, heaving a slow sigh and looking back down at her college-ruled notebook paper. She doodled a circle around each punched hole down the left side of the paper and started writing.
( About Me )
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