by Shuua (シューア) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/6490.html) It was a late November evening, and already wreaths hung from streetlamps and a variety of Christmas decorations adorned the window displays of shops. As if to encourage the illusion, snow was falling picturesquely in thick, fluffy flakes. A lone figure made his way through the streets, a muffled crunching […]
Category Archives: Bang*Bang no. 3
22
Dec
Red Coat
by Roselia Grimm (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/6760.html) In the upper part of the town there is a school where all the boys wear red coats. The coats are made of thick wool, crimson and soft, lined with black satin and fastened with grey steel toggles down the front. The boys of the lower town shuffle and mutter […]
22
Dec
Folie à Trois
by Shikagawa Hebiko (鹿皮へび子) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/7034.html) Summer school at St P___’s always felt like a bad idea; lazy and yellowed and made forlorn by too much sunlight at ten in the morning, the echoes of the emptier corridors, the sound of other people having fun punting down the river at the end of the football […]
22
Dec
Wires
by Shiretoko (知床) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/7251.html) Joss doesn’t understand why he’s here. He doesn’t understand why he’s walking down these streets, at this hour, smelling of someone else’s blood and dying to drown in the shower. This evening has been unkind to him. His mark was a fighter. Even as wire wound tight around the straining […]
22
Dec
Saturnalia
by Tohsei Suoh (土星 朱) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/7491.html) I spot the redheaded kid as I’m walking home from one of my later classes, and it’s that time of year where it’s four in the afternoon and the sun’s already squatting on the horizon like a fat, rotten tomato about to explode. It’s around four-thirty now. Everything […]
22
Dec
White Rabbits And Black Russians
by Nara Kagerou (奈良蜻蛉) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/7994.html) The wind howled like a symphony of sick dogs trained to sing commercial jingles. Jason slumped into the ski lodge, cursing God, snow and his uncle Errol, for sending him to some god-forsaken corner of the world where they still had fresh-air and blindingly white snow, which usually came […]
22
Dec
Lunch Money
by Tsukizubon Saruko (月図凡然る子) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/8265.html) “What are you doing?” Keitaro was already calling, as he broke into a jog across the parking lot, his furrowed brow sharpening into a full-fledged scowl. “Stop that! Let him go!” At the sound of an adult’s voice the boys broke apart, milling away from the one at the […]
22
Dec
Man’s Best Friend
by Natsuno Owari (夏野オワリ) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/8675.html) A small shop in Harajuku, he’d been told, down an alleyway between a crepe stand and that store which sold those disgusting lacy maid outfits. All lace and sex, she’d said, bought by young girls who had an inappropriate desire to express themselves… Tanaka-san valued her pet dog as […]
22
Dec
Wintering
by Koizumi Shinme (恋墨新芽) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/8740.html) Outside, a Gulf wind blew the rain into sheets like some old B movie effect, lines of water rippling and splatting against the storm windows, gusts rattling the back door where the latch still held, barely, fingers of damp wind trying to sneak in where it was warm and […]
22
Dec
Reunion
by Morokoshi Katsura (唐 桂) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/8978.html) For the first few weeks on Alba Venne dressed in layers: woolen stockings and quilted silk jackets and rivers of sable fur, long gloves and tall boots. The attire was necessary, as much for form and semiotics as the function of the outdoor ceremonies that marked his arrival, […]
22
Dec
Under The Mistletoe
by Tamari Erin (玉里えりん) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/9225.html) Bobby stared at himself in the bathroom mirror and adjusted the headband another time. try as he might, he just wasn’t able to get the mistletoe to hang straight. When it wasn’t listing to the left or to the right, it drooped down in front of his face, which […]
