Ricky
The man, or woman, or whoever lived next door played a beautiful piano. I could hear it through the wall, and it had woken me at 6:03, twenty-seven minutes before my alarm was due to go off, but I didn't mind. I laid peacefully on my bed with my eyes...
The Art Gallery | Drake's PoV
I look at the painting and think, _this is mine_. Not "this will be mine" or "someday, maybe, I can afford something like this." No. This painting is _mine_. The inconvenient part of it is that it's in a gallery, and it needs to be homed to its...
The Search for Sethis: Part 6
I had seen worlds with no technology, worlds with primitive technology, and even contemporary ones. this planet and ends felt and looked more like a mix of post-apocalyptic hell and contemporary.
Ronnie's Story Ch. 3
"well... my choir director in eighth grade decided to go with a contemporary piece set a cappella style. i got to be one of the boys singing the chorus. you like?" ray smirked and hugged ronnie close. "i loved it. you have an amazing voice."
Church of the Creators
His contemporaries could not grasp his brilliance, but some could see some glimmer of potential, and he was supported in his efforts until the day that he passed on.
The Guilded Cage, Prologue 5
Unlike some of his contemporaries he could also appreciate beast-kin, though he didn't delude himself into thinking that any of them could be his equal, or that they'd even try beyond the passing interest of the benefits having him as an ally could
New Slave
Although, that model had been able to cook authentic thai and malay cuisine and had known several forms of contemporary and modern dance. too bad it only last a month. "i see. very well, i'll take it.
Writing Tips vol. 3
With far future stuff, you can easily get away with using ordinary, contemporary speech, but you may want to at least consider having a few phrases or speech patterns that reflect the different time period. don't feel like you _have_ to though.
Not a Word
Fur elise, and various attempts at the rugrats theme song from the 90s onward, every now and then a either a student resident or just a visitor to the hall would sit down and enchant whoever was around with some complex classical melody or a more advanced contemporary
Part 3--Epilogues 1 and 2
Thus ended the weirdest and most wonderful day of my life. I was feeling fairly zombified after that; we cleaned up the changing room as best we could, got dressed, paid quickly and left quietly. We picked up my boy clothes from the locker and left the...
Transitions
**Transitions** **by Mog Moogle** The sunlight streamed through the blinds of the master bedroom on the third story of the Victorian house. It was not far from the historic downtown district of the Midwestern town. Narrow slits of light brushed...
Corwin Hall, Chapter 2
That would make it almost contemporary with the events it shows." "yes?" "well, this looks almost like the modern, mythologized version of the story. wouldn't someone carving this right after it happened tell it in a more historical way?"