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Title: Face Of A Vampire
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Angel.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400
Spoilers/Setting: Angel.
Summary: Buffy is in shock after discovering that Angel is a vampire.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 485: Face.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.

( Face Of A Vampire... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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I hit CVS and Price Chopper while I was downtown (both in order to pick up things for mom), got in a walk around the park, and hit the farm stand on the way home. I’ve been thinking about tomato sandwiches with fresh tomatoes.

I folded last night’s load of laundry, got another washed, and hand-washed some dishes before I left the house this morning. When I got home from downtown I baked a berry cobbler to use some of those berries we’d picked (and put the rest in the freezer), tossed the laundry into the dryer and another load into the washer, hand-washed more dishes, and mixed up some tuna with a nice fresh cucumber (and mayo) for my lunch.

I got to mom’s ~11am and left ~3pm. On the way home I filled my gas tank. At home I put away a load of laundry and tossed the other into the dryer, scooped kitty litter, made an easy supper (Pip had leftover meatloaf I pulled out of the freezer and I made myself open-faced tomato and melted cheese sandwiches with the fresh tomatoes I purchased today), and showered.

I read more in Amelia Peabody and also started and finished another Kindle cozy.

Temps started out at 70.0(F) and reached 92.4.

Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay today. ( more back here )

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What I Just Finished Reading: Since last Wednesday I have read/finished reading: Necessary as Blood (A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mystery) by Deborah Crombie, Lantern in the Lighthouse & Hint in the Hashtag & Pawn in the Pumpkin Patch & Secret in the Santa (The Inn at Holiday Bay) by Kathi Daley, A Bitter Pill (The Bookshop Mysteries) by S.A. Reeves, and Grounds For Murder (Perfect Blend Mysteries) by Emily Brewster.

What I am Currently Reading: He Shall Thunder in the Sky (An Amelia Peabody Mystery) by Elizabeth Peters.

What I Plan to Read Next: The new Rivers of London.

Book 62 of 2025: Necessary as Blood (A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mystery) (Deborah Crombie)

I enjoyed this book a lot! ( spoilers )

This book was really good and I can't wait to read the next. I'm giving it five hearts.

♥♥♥♥♥

Book 63 of 2025: Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries) (Martha Wells)

I enjoyed this! ( spoilers )

I really liked this novelette and am giving it five hearts.

♥♥♥♥♥

Repeating this info in case you missed it previously: If you haven't had a chance to read the new Murderbot novelette Rapport (which is one of those ‘takes place in the Murderbot Diaries ‘verse' stories) you can find it for free at Reactor Magazine or purchase it from Amazon (on Kindle for $1.99). Or both.

Book 64 of 2025: A Bitter Pill (The Bookshop Mysteries) (S.A. Reeves)

This book was just okay, which was disappointing because I really wanted to like it. ( spoilers )

This book was alright and I don't think I'll read more in the series. I'm giving this one three hearts.

♥♥♥

Book 65 of 2025: Grounds For Murder (Perfect Blend Mysteries) (Emily Brewster)

Another book that was just okay. I liked the main characters well enough, but seeming inconsistencies drove me nuts. ( spoilers )

This book was enjoyable enough, but I probably won't read more in the series. I'm giving it four hearts.

♥♥♥♥

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A nothing kind of day, all the things I hoped to do contraindicated by either the heat or my knee (the bruise is fascinating, the blood is pooling differently behind the old surgery scar). So I did house things, and craft things, and read and got stuck underneath a cat and spent a lot of time thinking about the things I'm not doing. I need to get a quote from a landscaper, and a quote from someone to replace a door, and call to schedule an MRI, I need to figure out the general direction of the next part of my life, if it's going to have one, and I have to remember what the fuck people eat when it's hot outside that isn't just endless bowls of cereal.

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Fandom: Narnia
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from CHRISTMAS EVE by Liz Berry and After You Died by Deryn Rees-Jones.
Summary: In which Eustace is interrupted while eating breakfast.

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From August 19th...

What flag will fly for me
When I die?
What flag of red and white and blue,
Half-mast, against the sky?

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May the magic be with us all!

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Do you recall favorite guest stars that outshone the main cast, or perhaps were such a perfect choice that they became part of the main cast later on? And if so, do we see less of this now that entire seasons are finished before they’re ever shown to an audience?

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So my tooth decided to change things up and woke me with the stabbing, burning pain around 11 last night. I did not feel like getting up to do anything about it so I just laid there in agony until I fell back asleep. I then managed to sleep until almost 2am.

My tooth hurt a little bit after that so I didn't really sleep very well and decided to not walk again today.

Saturday morning the weirdest thing happened. I was snoozing on the couch when I heard this scraping sound. There's a tree outside my apartment that has been dead since before I moved in and a month or so ago one of the limbs fell off and just barely scraped against my windows. I thought that had happened again so I pulled up my camera but the tree looked like it always does. That's when I decided to pull back the curtain where I discovered the blinds had fallen! I didn't take a picture of them behind the curtain (and maybe I should have).

I submitted a work order through the app and maintenance came yesterday to fix it. Since some of the slats are bent or broken, I expected to get new blinds (two slats were broken before I moved in) but he just put the old one back up! It's a good thing I have curtains because not only would I have had no privacy due to the uncovered front window for two days, but I still wouldn't have any due to the broken slats on the blinds.

The management office sent a survey (they do this all the time when you submit a work order via the app) so I said I was dissatisfied due to the old broken blinds being put back up instead of new ones.

spikedluv

I went downtown as usual today and hit Walmart, Price Chopper and the Feedbag. (The first time I’ve been to the Feed Bag since before mom’s surgery! Pip has been having to do the bird seed run.) I also got in a walk around the park and picked up Chinese for lunch.

I was up an hour before Pip, so before I left the house I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, and scooped kitty litter. After I got home I did another load of laundry (both loads got washed and dried, one got folded), hand-washed more dishes, baked chicken for the dogs’ meals, grilled country style pork ribs for Pip’s supper, ran a load in the dishwasher, and shaved.

I finished the Kindle cozy and read more in Amelia Peabody. Hold onto your hats, folks, because I also managed to write ~500 words on a new fic for

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Temps started out at 70.7(F) and reached 93. We didn’t get the forecasted rain last night, so I didn’t mow the lawn today. It was hot. Hot. Pip wanted to show me where he’d found more berry bushes, so I went for a walk with him and the dogs after lunch. He hadn’t exaggerated, the bramble was huge! So many berries. We picked about two cups, but could’ve been there much longer just to get the ones we could reach. I was ready to die when we got back from that short walk. I had to splash my face with cold water and sit in the AC’d bedroom for a while to cool back down. So HOT. And that was just a short walk, including a bit through the shaded orchard.

( 4 photos I took on that walk )

Mom Update:

Mom had the appointment with her oncologist today. ( more back here )

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This month's challenge is:

Reverse Fandom: Law & Order

Click on the challenge, pick any episode title, or more than one, as inspiration, and start writing!

Reminder of Rules

Entries can be any length you like. You can post as many entries to each challenge as you're inspired to write.
If posting direct to the community, please place the body of your entry behind a cut.
Tag with the appropriate Category, Challenge, Fandom, Type, and Ratings tags. If a tag for your fandom doesn't exist, leave a request on the Tag Request post and I'll create the tags you need. You can request as many fandom tags as you want.
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Suggestions for future challenges are welcome on the Questions & Suggestions post.
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Have fun!

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From Bouquet

Gather quickly
Out f darkness
All the songs you know
And throw them at the sun

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