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doyleContinuing my experimentation with super-short fic: 21 25-word drabbles, all about dreams.
21 Dreams in Sunnydale (and LA)
Electric Barbarella - Warren
Katrina. Baby. She'll be perfect this time, but how the hell is he supposed to finish her when someone keeps dripping blood on the circuitboards?
Miscellany - Andrew
He dreams of:
Buying Action Comics #1 for ten cents at a garage sale.
X-ray vision.
Warren.
Metropolis.
Klingon sonnets.
Jonathan's blood on his hands.
Madonna and Child - Angel
It's a perfect tableau; golden-haired woman holding a baby boy on her knee, but when he looks up from his half-finished sketch, they're both gone.
Her Reply - Anya
Xander asks her if she has nightmares about the men she cursed.
She says no, and is puzzled when her honesty seems to trouble him.
Prophecy Girl - Buffy
New thought - will the new Slayers get the Dreams? She wants them back. Mystical, baffling, better than dreaming of clumsy words and hands on fire.
Teenage Kicks All Through the Night - Connor
He dreams about Tracy. Hockey practice. Sometimes, guiltily, about Ms. Thomson and the sheer blouses she wears to class.
Wolfram & Hart do excellent work.
The Philosopher and the Butterfly - Cordelia
So is she an actress dreaming she's a champion or a champion who dreamed she was an actress? Either way, she needs a better word.
Across the Universe - Dawn
She remembers her normal-girl dreams. Shopping. Boys. Not the others, because the Key's suddenly human brain can't comprehend the dreams where she holds the universe.
Like Mrs. Rochester, or a Student of Boolean Mathematics - Fred
/* That dream about the time Gunn and me ate ice-cream on the beach. Oh! And I laughed cuz he dropped his and we… */
#include [regrets.h]
After the End - Giles
He dreams in statistics. Three hundred and fifty-eight Slayers. Some sixty countries, God knows how many languages. Five dead already, three of them like Chloe.
Heart of Darkness - Gunn
This is a dream, or maybe a memory, but either way it's not his. He looks down at the reflection in the waterhole and growls.
Dreams in Which I'm Dying - Jonathan
"Warren," he says, "What're you doing in that stupid rabbit suit?"
Warren's eyes are glassy, false. "What are you doing in that stupid Jonathan suit?"
Waking Moment - Lilah
No rest for the wicked? Some things are clichés because they're true. In Hell, Lilah doesn't dream. She thinks about Wes, often, but that's different.
Kindergarten Math - Lindsey
He has nightmares where his arms end in bloody stumps at the wrist and Angel refuses to help, simultaneously mocking him and not seeing him.
No Business Like - Lorne
"And then Frank says, 'Lorne, Pally, you gotta find the cheese!'"
Sammy and Dean laugh uproariously. Bette and Barbra mix them another round of cocktails.
Sense Memory - Riley
When he wakes up, gasping, his arm is tingling just below the elbow, and he finds himself feeling there for scars that faded long ago.
Every Night - Spike
Day ninety-eight: awake, he can relive it, and he saves her. But his subconscious is more honest, and in his dreams she always, always falls.
Juxtaposition - Tara
She's singing on the bridge, and she can smell wildflowers all around them, but when Willow turns around it's Dad not Willow and stop, stop.
False - Wesley
The dream about a goddess and a rain of fire surprises him in its vividness, but later he dreams about killing his father, and forgets.
Advice - Willow
Don't listen to the others. They're right, about you changing since the Slayer spell, but what you are, what you'll become, they can't imagine.
Beggars Would Ride - Xander
After Jesse, he wished he could stop dreaming about the dead. But now Anya's gone and he takes it back. He takes it all back.
21 Dreams in Sunnydale (and LA)
Electric Barbarella - Warren
Katrina. Baby. She'll be perfect this time, but how the hell is he supposed to finish her when someone keeps dripping blood on the circuitboards?
Miscellany - Andrew
He dreams of:
Buying Action Comics #1 for ten cents at a garage sale.
X-ray vision.
Warren.
Metropolis.
Klingon sonnets.
Jonathan's blood on his hands.
Madonna and Child - Angel
It's a perfect tableau; golden-haired woman holding a baby boy on her knee, but when he looks up from his half-finished sketch, they're both gone.
Her Reply - Anya
Xander asks her if she has nightmares about the men she cursed.
She says no, and is puzzled when her honesty seems to trouble him.
Prophecy Girl - Buffy
New thought - will the new Slayers get the Dreams? She wants them back. Mystical, baffling, better than dreaming of clumsy words and hands on fire.
Teenage Kicks All Through the Night - Connor
He dreams about Tracy. Hockey practice. Sometimes, guiltily, about Ms. Thomson and the sheer blouses she wears to class.
Wolfram & Hart do excellent work.
The Philosopher and the Butterfly - Cordelia
So is she an actress dreaming she's a champion or a champion who dreamed she was an actress? Either way, she needs a better word.
Across the Universe - Dawn
She remembers her normal-girl dreams. Shopping. Boys. Not the others, because the Key's suddenly human brain can't comprehend the dreams where she holds the universe.
Like Mrs. Rochester, or a Student of Boolean Mathematics - Fred
/* That dream about the time Gunn and me ate ice-cream on the beach. Oh! And I laughed cuz he dropped his and we… */
#include [regrets.h]
After the End - Giles
He dreams in statistics. Three hundred and fifty-eight Slayers. Some sixty countries, God knows how many languages. Five dead already, three of them like Chloe.
Heart of Darkness - Gunn
This is a dream, or maybe a memory, but either way it's not his. He looks down at the reflection in the waterhole and growls.
Dreams in Which I'm Dying - Jonathan
"Warren," he says, "What're you doing in that stupid rabbit suit?"
Warren's eyes are glassy, false. "What are you doing in that stupid Jonathan suit?"
Waking Moment - Lilah
No rest for the wicked? Some things are clichés because they're true. In Hell, Lilah doesn't dream. She thinks about Wes, often, but that's different.
Kindergarten Math - Lindsey
He has nightmares where his arms end in bloody stumps at the wrist and Angel refuses to help, simultaneously mocking him and not seeing him.
No Business Like - Lorne
"And then Frank says, 'Lorne, Pally, you gotta find the cheese!'"
Sammy and Dean laugh uproariously. Bette and Barbra mix them another round of cocktails.
Sense Memory - Riley
When he wakes up, gasping, his arm is tingling just below the elbow, and he finds himself feeling there for scars that faded long ago.
Every Night - Spike
Day ninety-eight: awake, he can relive it, and he saves her. But his subconscious is more honest, and in his dreams she always, always falls.
Juxtaposition - Tara
She's singing on the bridge, and she can smell wildflowers all around them, but when Willow turns around it's Dad not Willow and stop, stop.
False - Wesley
The dream about a goddess and a rain of fire surprises him in its vividness, but later he dreams about killing his father, and forgets.
Advice - Willow
Don't listen to the others. They're right, about you changing since the Slayer spell, but what you are, what you'll become, they can't imagine.
Beggars Would Ride - Xander
After Jesse, he wished he could stop dreaming about the dead. But now Anya's gone and he takes it back. He takes it all back.
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on 2004-01-07 07:47 am (UTC)Electric Barbarella is especially creepy and wonderful.