Brother, can you spare a word?

[mylittleredgirl]

Please comment with one word. (Scrabble rules do not apply - the word can be a person, place, or slang.)

I will write a drabble-ish length reply. It might be fic, it might be original, it might be memory, might be, I don't know, a definition? A recipe? A made-up word origin?

I promised last night that I would make art every chance I get and am having a bit of a hard time getting started when hulu is right there with ten thousand shows I don't need to watch.

Help? :)

(p.s. if you want to do this exercise too, I promise to give you a word!)

Comments

[anuna-81.livejournal.com]

Jerusalem :)

Jerusalem - pre-Atlantis

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth was young when she studied in Jerusalem, part of her year of intensive Arabic studies. The religious significance was lost on her, emotionally. The white stone buildings were beautiful, and she was impressed by the tangible remnants of ancient history, but to her it was a project, an example of how deeply humans could hate each other. For her family, church had always been a social obligation. None of the Weirs would ever have considered making a pilgrimage anywhere except the Rose Bowl.

She learned Arabic, and conversational Hebrew, enough to read street maps and order falafel. She'd need more, if this became her geographical specialty in her conflict resolution studies, but she was drawn north, to the Balkans, the former Eastern Bloc, Russia.

Her roommate insisted she see the religious sites in her last week there. "This is the most sacred place in the universe," she told Elizabeth, without a hint of doubt in her voice.

Elizabeth felt empty when she considered that, so she tried to put that thought away.

Re: Jerusalem - pre-Atlantis

[anuna-81.livejournal.com]

but to her it was a project, an example of how deeply humans could hate each other.

I like it! And I like to think she was drawn to former Eastern Block and waht used to be former Yugoslavia.

Re: Jerusalem - pre-Atlantis

[hihoplastic.livejournal.com]

anuna_81 told me about this and ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

This is basically my life right now, and therefore I ridiculously love the idea of Lizzie doing the same, hee. *biased*

I love your 'Lizabeth. (This: The white stone buildings were beautiful, and she was impressed by the tangible remnants of ancient history, but to her it was a project, an example of how deeply humans could hate each other. GUH.) And I really hope to see more writing from you soon!! (I'm theoretically on hiatus, but if you do post something please please send me a PM or something, so I'll know about it? ♥)