by Hinotori (火鳥) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/90008.html) “OK, guys, time for a break.” Jamie didn’t sound frustrated or annoyed, just enthusiastic with an edge of tiredness. Ri put his guitar down and stretched, cracking his fingers noisily before attempting to rub feeling back into them. He could hear the other guys doing the same. Jamie took it […]
Author Archives: ssbb-admin
22
Jun
Songs You Know by Heart
by Dr. Noh (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/90404.html) Author’s note: Many thanks to Flower of Carnage, not just for betaing, but also for letting me use her character, Daniel, and for writing the bit of this story in which he appears. — ONE David detached himself from a woman dressed as a drooping rose. Her costume wasn’t the […]
22
Jun
Götterdämmerung
by Critical Strike (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/91388.html) Smoke curled in a lazy haze, tendrils slowly tripping over themselves and forming shapes like sleepy thoughts in the wee hours of the morning. It was actually early afternoon, and the smoker in question was feeling as lazy as the smoke itself. It might have been the lack of sleep […]
19
May
We Are More
by Tsukizubon Saruko (月図凡然る子) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/82283.html) May, 1996 The attic was going to be hell. Katie stood in the middle of it, turning a slow circle with her hands on her hips. Old steamer trunks with garment bags stacked up on top of them, cobwebs sealing them to the floor like tape across the door […]
19
May
Heat
by newtypeshadow (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/82446.html) When the servant opens the door to her private library, Lady Catherine thinks it is Tessa with the lemonade. Instead it is one of the maids, come to say Tessa has taken it to the parlor, where Lord Seaton is waiting. “How does he look?” Lady Catherine is certain he plans […]
19
May
Splash
by Purrsia illustrated by susieoh (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/82758.html) I woke up with a mouth full of sand. The plane. Something had happened…. I sat up, spitting sand out as I went, and my head told me just what a shitty idea that had been. The plane had crashed. Shit. I went on a flight to Tahiti […]
19
May
Like Many Hopeless Romantics
by veryshortlist (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/83112.html) Like many hopeless romantics, Sara had been so disenfranchised by the whole business of love and dating that she tried to convince herself that she did not even want a lover, a partner, a man to take care of. Like many hopeless romantics, also, Sara kept a vain hope that this […]
19
May
Fieldwork
by Matty Groves (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/83570.html) “I say,” said Miss Evans, looking over the jalopy’s windshield. “Is that Kaoru Watu?” “‘At’s it, miss,” the cockney driver said. “Th’ main village of the ‘ill tribe is just on top of that ‘ill.” The hill, a rolling green mass capped by the set, shorn, eerily regular bands of […]
19
May
Sweet
by Yoshiyo Hotaru (昌夜 蛍) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/83759.html) The air is so thick with the smell of honey that Anave can hardly breathe. The walls are sticky with it. She hurries through the twisting corridors, barely keeping sight of the worker escorting her to the center of the Hive, where she will be introduced and begin […]
19
May
The Jazzman’s Last Jive
by shukyou (主教) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/84468.html) She walked down the stairs into the dark, smoke-filled speakeasy like water, each long leg cascading down past the other as her pale blue skirt swirled around her knees, the light from the outside streetlamps catching and lighting her snow-blonde hair like a halo, and Nell took a drink of […]
19
May
Luxury Interior
by Flower of Carnage (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/84624.html) Amber noticed the car first. It was a white Mercedes convertible, done out with a bright red leather interior. No one drove a car like that in Western Helm. Amber had only ever seen things so luxurious at the county motor shows that Uncle Jimmy used to take her […]
19
May
Newton’s Third Law
by xahra99 (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/84859.html) ‘To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ -Newton’s Third Law of Motion. “Don’t tell anyone.” Dorothy hissed. Her voice drifted up the stairwell to where Lillian stood. Lillian paused instinctively, her hands clutching the banister, one foot dangling in midair. Far above her head, a startled pigeon fluttered […]
5
Mar
It Started With A Kiss
by The Autumn Poet (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/81105.html) The waiting area of the Mactan International Airport was nearly empty. Tourists usually stopped by Cebu during the summer to enjoy its many beaches; however this day seemed to be an exception. Only the resounding voice of the airline traffic managers and the characteristic beep of the announcing board […]
5
Mar
Colourful
by Seiwa Kaiyura (性和 界由来) illustrated by lumlumfrog (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/81748.html) Maybe, if he had actually remembered why the hell he had banned hair dye from his bathroom, Esteban would not have let his crazy boyfriend talk him into helping. His wonderful, aggravating boyfriend who had brought cake and had given him lots of nice scratchies […]
5
Mar
Secrets And Lies
by hColleen (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/78285.html) “Tom. Tom, are you awake in there?” The web of fantasy shattered, Tom bit back a groan of frustration and disappointment. “Yes, I’m awake.” “Ken’s here.” A string of profanities formed on Tom’s lips as he struggled to regain something resembling composure. Ken had held the star role in the daydream […]
