Swordspoint fic!

Another one. Trivial and written quick and not even smutty.

http://community.livejournal.com/_riverside/8342.html

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I no longer vote at a methadone clinic! Votetastic!

Terrible dreams last night about smug BS from men I have known. Feh on them.

Oh man, I hurt from fencing. Less bad in the legs from last time, more in the arms.

Sinus thing seems gone again, after I was sure I was getting the flu yesterday.

I am wearing the _cutest_ outfit ever that manages to reference sort of every obsession I have, ever. I do not have a camera, and so you must live with this idea: 17-year-old Snape filtered through Swordspoint. Being batshit is fun!

Listening to My Chemical Romance yesterday was bad, because now that stupid song is stuck in my head.

Eshakti finally shipped my suit.

LJ needs to stop sucking with comments. And I need to stop LJ'ing when half asleep and managing to delete the comments I do get!

Onward.

another city of the dead

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cemetery31oct31,0,6282579.story?track=tothtml

SOMETIMES on the hottest nights, when the air inside her shanty barely stirs, Mellie Soliman lays her head on the cool, black marble surface of the living-room crypt and finds relief.

Yet the nights are not always restful in this place called Norte. In the quietest hours, spirits emerge. Soliman sees them mostly after midnight, the hour she once found a mother and son standing at her door.

"The woman was all white," she said. "She couldn't talk, but motioned that they were thirsty, so I went to get them water. When I came back, they were gone."

She explains such apparitions with a near-mystical calm: "There are some here in Norte who have left us but still do not think they are dead."

Soliman is familiar with the habits of the deceased. The barefoot grandmother and her extended family are among 50,000 poor but stubborn Filipinos who carve out an unorthodox existence in Norte, or the North Manila Cemetery, which is the country's largest public burial ground and a bustling community where the living share space with the dead.