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OK, enough fannish stuff; now, for something completely different. No, really, because this morning I wrote an entirely non-fandom-based drabble; it's for the current picture at picturefic.
Faded Memories
Ten years later, and he was gone. He'd been gone for much of that ten years, actually, but it was ten years since he'd given her the flower and she'd pressed it between the fragile paper leaves of the heavy book. Later, shelved it during a flurry of organization and forgot about the carnation lurking between its pages, engraving itself onto lines of prose and verse. A Midsummer-Night's Dream, act two, scene one, and it was ironic really, because all she wanted to do was forget. She pressed the heel of her palm against her forehead, tried not to cry.