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littledoglaughed) wrote2009-01-11 12:00 pm
littledoglaughed) wrote2009-01-11 12:00 pm
Torchwood drabble: Mercurial
Title: Mercurial
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rustydog
Characters: the Rift
Rating/spoilers: rated G, no spoilers
Beta:mad_jaks
Notes: Written for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
tw100's challenge #102, "endangered words"
It appears on soft paws: its dexterous tentacles choose one knife from a drawer of dozens; this child but not her sister; the husband from bed, leaving the wife among the sheets, the tinny taste of ozone ringing her throat.
Or it is a lightning cloud: mercurial as a tornado, it skips this farmhouse and devastates the next, no pattern to its swirling atomic trail of debris. It deposits the flock on a grassy hill a century hence and drops the lamb light years away on the shore of a poison sea.
Without conscience, the Rift gives and takes away.
Author:
rustydogCharacters: the Rift
Rating/spoilers: rated G, no spoilers
Beta:
mad_jaksNotes: Written for
tw100's challenge #102, "endangered words"It appears on soft paws: its dexterous tentacles choose one knife from a drawer of dozens; this child but not her sister; the husband from bed, leaving the wife among the sheets, the tinny taste of ozone ringing her throat.
Or it is a lightning cloud: mercurial as a tornado, it skips this farmhouse and devastates the next, no pattern to its swirling atomic trail of debris. It deposits the flock on a grassy hill a century hence and drops the lamb light years away on the shore of a poison sea.
Without conscience, the Rift gives and takes away.
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