Jewel(le)ry challenge response

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

This challenge makes me think of Adorned, by resonant8. Just thought I'd mention that.

Anyway, here's a wee contribution to the jewelry (jewellery?) challenge.


Bracelet


The leather is a thin strip of reindeer, stronger than it appears. The bead is granite, the hole bored painstakingly and just barely big enough for the thong to penetrate; it doesn't slide.

Fraser is fairly certain Ray will like it. Has imagined tying it around Ray's wrist, wondered which hand Ray would proffer, hoped that Ray's pulse might flutter beneath his fingertips.

He knots it loosely and slides it on. Tonight he will present it to Ray -- warmed by his own heat, his own heart -- and hope, against all logic, that Ray will know what is offered.

(100 words)

Comments

[beledibabe.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm, I'd say Ray'll understand.

::nodnod::

Yeah.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I like to imagine so, yeah. :-)

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

How do you do that in only 100 words? Loved this:

Has imagined tying it around Ray's wrist, wondered which hand Ray would proffer, hoped that Ray's pulse might flutter beneath his fingertips.

This challenge is really bringing out the descriptive, sensual side of the writers. :) And yes, it did remind me of "Adorned", too. :)

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

So glad you enjoyed it! I really like writing drabbles. They're the haiku of the fanfiction world...

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful, Kass. Really lovely.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Thank you most kindly!

[cadetdru.livejournal.com]

Beautiful drabble; beautiful bracelet.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[sanj.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

I think Ray'll get it.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Well, in my little world Ray certainly gets it. And then there's kissing. :-)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Mmm, lovely.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but then it would've threatened to grow into a whole short story, and I really just wanted to write a drabble. :-)

Glad you liked it!

[mergatrude.livejournal.com]

It's like an amaretto cookie with my coffee - not that a big piece of cheesecake isn't nice - but this is just perfect. Light, but somehow satisfying. (It must be morning coffee time here.)

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Yay for satisfying amaretto cookies! So glad you enjoyed.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Oh! Warm! You made me warm and ooey-gooey, but in a totally unshmoopy way. What a lovely way to use 100 words~

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you found it both warm and unschmoopy -- that's precisely what I was going for. Yay!

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

I'm'a hug you so hard ...

Truly lovely, dear.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it. :-) Hug me all you want -- we'll make more.

[elmyraemilie.livejournal.com]

You just give us so much of Fraser in this 100 words. Love it. Love the bracelet, too. Ray will definitely get it.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Thank you most kindly!

[brynwulf]

I have this very clear picture of it resting on the same wrist as his beaded silver bracelet, twined together because he never takes either off. Hmmmm. Thanks Kass.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

What a lovely image. Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's lovely. I love the bead that doesn't slide -- it seems to sum up everything -- the concession that goes only so far, and yet is so very hard-won, carved out of such difficult material ...

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

YAY! The bead metaphor came through!

So glad you enjoyed. :-)

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely! A beautiful bracelet and a beautiful gesture. (And I bet Ray gets it right away.) *g*

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly! (I bet Ray gets it, too. :-)

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

It's the poet in you, man. You do these drabbles like nobody else. They're always just these perfect melodies, not fragments. Really really lovely!

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I really love this form -- done right, it looks easy, even though it isn't. You can take the girl out of the poetry, I guess...

Anyway, thanks! Glad you enjoyed.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Ha!--are you kidding?? I don't think it even LOOKS easy. And as Mrs. Verbal Diarrhea 2003, believe me, I know how tough it is!

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

Oh, beautiful.

...and hope, against all logic, that Ray will know what is offered.

Yes.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly. I'm glad you enjoyed.