SONG STORY CHALLENGE: Desert Rose by Sting

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Happy May everyone! Here's our first Song-Story Challenge of the month. Posting begins on Friday and runs through Sunday and beyond.

It evokes exotic and emotional possibilities perhaps? Let the music take you away...and Napoleon and Illya along with you.

                                                                                                                   

( The lyrics: )

SONG STORY CHALLENGE~ Desert Rose by Sting

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Happy May everyone! Here's our first Song-Story Challenge
of the month. Posting begins on Friday and runs through
Sunday and beyond. 

It evokes exotic and emotional possibilities perhaps?
Let the music take you away...and Napoleon and/or
Illya along with you.

"Sting - Desert Rose original song" (Watch on YouTube)

( The lyrics: )

"Occam's Razor"~ A new story by Lindafishes_8

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Lindafishes is having trouble figuring out how to post and asked
me to publish this for her. She's very excited as it's her first MFU fic,
so please give her a warm welcome to the community of writers
here on Dreamwidth.

 

                                                                                        

                                                Occam’s Razor *

     All things being equal, sometimes the simplest explanation is the correct one.


It was hard to believe that anyone could have a care in the world on a day such as this. The sky was bluer than he had ever seen it and knowing exactly why it was this particular shade of blue detracted nothing from it’s beauty. He slowly sat up and adjusted the back of the cushioned lounge chair he’d been lying in and wiggled the sand out from between his toes.

The morning was comfortably warm and he could almost taste the salty ocean breeze. This slice of tropical paradise was for his own private use and he felt no need to share it with anyone. Well, at least not for the present.

Then he noticed her.

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"Occam's Razor"~ A new story by Lindafishes8

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Lindafishes is having trouble figuring out LJ and asked me to post this for her. She's very excited as it's her first MFU fic,  so please give her a warm welcome to the community of writers here on Live Journal. ( I had a devil of a time formatting and posting this, so if Lindafishes tried, she would have been pulling out her hair) Another lovely LJ glitch?



               



                                             

Occam’s Razor *

All things being equal, sometimes the simplest explanation is the correct one.

It was hard to believe that anyone could have a care in the world on a day such as this. The sky was bluer than he had ever seen it and knowing exactly why it was this particular shade of blue detracted nothing from it’s beauty.

He slowly sat up and adjusted the back of the cushioned lounge chair he’d been lying in and wiggled the sand out from between his toes.

The morning was comfortably warm and he could almost taste the salty ocean breeze. This slice of tropical paradise was for his own private use and he felt no need to share it with anyone. Well, at least not for the present.

Then he noticed her.

( Read more... )

Free of body, free of soul Part Six and news about Suezeeque

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Only two more parts left of this story. I do hope that those reading will enjoy them. Here's part six ...
http://archiveofourown.org/works/1550876

As I think I said a few days ago on the Canteen, Sue is now at home after her treatment. Luckily, the recovery from this kind of keyhole surgery of the liver is quicker than a full-scale resection would be, so let us hope she is up and doing her usual early morning walk and bird spotting routine very soon. Incidentally, I am aware that in this country the NHS is far from perfect, but at least we are spared from the experience of lying on a gurney whilst our doctor argues about our treatment with the Insurance Company? I don't mean to criticise, but really ....!

I didn't realise until now how much the illness, and in some cases, mortal illness of those we love can affect us. Visiting another friend in the last stages of lung cancer and finding out about Sue has affected me badly, more than I could have believed. I went for my usual session with PT at the gym and just couldn't do it. I began to feel that in some way my health was not deserved while others suffered so much. I am pretty much back to normal now, my usual reasonably happy self reasserting itself. Am I being pathetic, or just normal?