derien | postcard drabble! And Spring!

I got a postcard from

mizzmarvel! It has the most lovely rhinoceros; his armor looks something from a German medieval court, all decorated with little scallops at the edges and circular designs. Which makes some kind of sense, I guess, because he was drawn by Albrecht Durer.

And she wrote a sweet little Byron/Jeff (from The Babysitters Club series, which I know nothing about, but I love her Byron and Jeff) half-drabble on it. *wiggles delightedly* :) I'm going to type it out just like it is, with her comment as well...

(50 words exactly, if I do not miscount.)

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Absently, Byron counted the number of syllables in his name. By-ron Jo-seph Pike. Five. He paused for a moment, then, on his fingers, counted Jeff's. Jeff-rey Paul Scha-fer. Five again. They matched.

"Together, we make a perfect ten," Byron said aloud.

Jeff smiled. "You didn't have to tell me that."

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(Counting syllables is something I do, possibly because I'm a little OCD. I made up their middle names to make this work.
--[mizzmarvel])
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Also - I saw flower buds (forsythias - they're just about the earliest blooming wild bush around here, I think) and tiny new leaves yesterday on my way to work! Spring! It's not just a rumor! In fact it was so hot yesterday that I wished I'd had shorts for my walk. (I saw some pansies that someone had put out a while back - week before last, I think - but it snowed the next day so I suspect they did not survive.)

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Date: 2005-04-21 01:16 pm (UTC)

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Oh, gosh, yeah, she's been writing a story called "Blue," which is wonderful in the extreme, to me. It is officially 'unfinished,' but with a story like this it seems like it's hard to find a good place to finish it. Right now she's at a sort of full-circle point, so if she stopped there it probably wouldn't be a bad thing. Only I hope she doesn't.

She seemed to think it sucked when she started, but I think she's gained followers during the posting of it.

She's been good about going back and posting a link to the next chapter at the bottom of each, later, so you can start here and go right through: http://www.livejournal.com/users/mizzmarvel/98540.html