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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2007-05-01 12:20 am

Stories I want to read


Stories I Want Someone To Write

Your story is a romance between a quiet and angsty boy and a person without a home. The lovers experience the haunting sound of a bamboo flute and the fine line between pain and pleasure while in a graveyard. (addendum by [livejournal.com profile] oyceter: "OMG that is great. Except the bamboo flute quite clearly needs to be a flute made of bone (a la [livejournal.com profile] yhlee), especially if it is made of the bone of some beloved person who died mysteriously and always compels people to sing the truth.")

Your story is a romance between a person without a home and someone who saves people who don't deserve it. The lovers experience a pyrrhic victory and a hopeless crusade while in a dying civilization.

Your story begins with family that holds together come hell or high water. In a ballroom full of swishing skirts and duplicity there is a commanding officer who has bare feet. The protagonist experiences things like slavers and the inner beast barely held in check. It finally ends with leaves blowing in the wind.

Your story is a romance between a tough woman in a dangerous situation and a cold and deadly courtesan. The lovers experience wistful glances and a wordless look that communicates meaning while in a dark alley.

This narrative is a supernatural thriller. It starts in Heian Japan with a quiet and angsty boy. The antagonist is a demon and the plot involves elements like secrets within secrets and the texture of warm stone.

The story begins with sacrificing everything to save the world, and ends with a satisfyingly organized sequence of events. It features someone who appreciates life's small things and a kick-ass woman, but the overall narrative is about what happens after the revolution.

Your story begins with kneeling in solitary prayer. In a city with a long history there is a priestess who has a long coat a little too long in the sleeves. The protagonist experiences things like vehicles in motion and a wordless look that communicates meaning. It finally ends with being stuck in a confined space with something trying to kill you.

The story starts as a priest encounters a swordfight while in a large city. The overall narrative is about the edge between civilization and the unknown.

The story starts as a person so reserved just the touch of a hand speaks volumes encounters role reversal while in Heian Japan. The overall narrative contains the non-human as genuinely strange and incomprehensible.

Your story begins with a tough woman in a dangerous situation in Heian Japan. The villain is a woman who dresses sensibly for battle who has spy gear. Plot elements include exotic perfumes and a bewitching scent.

Your story begins with a cat lover in the ruined parts of a city. The villain is a straight boy in a skirt who has a thigh holster. Plot elements include crushing secrets and a secret identity.

The story begins with fighting the inevitable, and ends with a pyrrhic victory. It features a scholar and a person torn between two paths, but the overall narrative is about the moments before an era fades away.

This narrative contains themes and imagery of flight. It starts in the mountains with a quiet and angsty boy. The antagonist is a boy who cries and the plot involves elements like martyrdom and the haunting sound of a bamboo flute.

The story begins with moving water, and ends with swashbuckling. It features someone who lives in the moment and a person who lives on the edge of society, but the overall narrative is a picaresque novel.
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[personal profile] oyceter 2007-05-01 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Your story is a romance between a tough woman in a dangerous situation and a cold and deadly courtesan. The lovers experience wistful glances and a wordless look that communicates meaning while in a dark alley.

I think that is a near perfect summary of my cool bits fic. Or possibly the cool bits manga I was thinking up with [livejournal.com profile] vom_marlowe with floaty hair and cross-dressing and cold and deadly female assassins.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Another one for you:

Your story begins with hot against-a-wall sex. In a landscape lost in mist there is a misanthropic loner who has trailing sleeves. The protagonist experiences things like offering a handkerchief and polyphonic choral bits. It finally ends with a broken taboo.
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[personal profile] oyceter 2007-05-01 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
The story begins with fighting the inevitable, and ends with a pyrrhic victory. It features a scholar and a person torn between two paths, but the overall narrative is about the moments before an era fades away.

This one is really lovely. Hrm. I wonder if I can make that fic or something...

[identity profile] wyrdness.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'd like to read that story :)
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Your story is a romance between a tough woman in a dangerous situation and a cold and deadly courtesan. The lovers experience wistful glances and a wordless look that communicates meaning while in a dark alley."

But that's already been written: It's the Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop!

[identity profile] fmanalyst.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The first one seems like it could be a sequel to The Twa Sisters, in which a fiddle is made of the bones of a girl drowned by her jealous sister. In fact, it just occurred to me that the Child ballads would be a great source of stories for fiction.
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[identity profile] batwrangler.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this! (And Cherie Priest does, too!)

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! XD
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[personal profile] chisotahn 2007-05-01 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
In a ballroom full of swishing skirts and duplicity there is a commanding officer who has bare feet.

That's actually a really cool sentence all on its own. o_o It's kind of profound in a way.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I really like it. And it ending with It finally ends with leaves blowing in the wind. just adds to the profundity.


(I envision it being read out loud by someone who narrates movie trailers.)

[identity profile] loligo.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The CBSG is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.

[identity profile] sleary.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
This narrative is about the family you choose. It starts in turn-of-the-century Europe with a clairvoyant. The antagonist is a tall man in a dark Armani suit and the plot involves elements like secrets within secrets and a lonely scream in the darkness.

That would be fun to write. Unless it's been done as a Buffy fanfic. (The actual show could never afford Armani.)

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That Armani suit gets around; it showed up in Meiji-era Japan in what sounded like a Rurouni Kenshin episode.

[identity profile] rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com 2007-05-02 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
The story starts as a person so reserved just the touch of a hand speaks volumes encounters role reversal while in Heian Japan. The overall narrative contains the non-human as genuinely strange and incomprehensible.

I think I could make a fairly good case for this being Kij Johnson's Fudoki.

Also, the world needs more straight boys in skirts with thigh holsters!

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-05-02 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, you're right. On both counts. :D