Masterlist: 20_inkspots

[storypaint]

Community: 20_inkspots
Completed: 4 Oct 06
Co-Artist: sky_pirate_tat (only one illustration available)
Claim: Tomoyo/Sakura

Title: Blinded [link]
Theme: 1. blinded by the light
Words: 291
Rating: G
Excerpt: A secondhand happiness is better than none, and much better than hurting Sakura with my feelings for her.

Title: Has No End [link]
Theme: 674
Words: 2. a broken circle
Rating: PG
Excerpt: There's an engagement ring on her finger, a little golden circle with three square diamonds that I helped Li-kun pick out.

Title: Night Terrors [link]
Theme: 3. the dark night of the soul
Words: 365
Rating: PG
Excerpt: Tomoyo fell asleep with her beloved's name on her lips, and awoke screaming. She did that sometimes, now that Sakura was gone, but no one ever came to see what was wrong with her.

Title: Highway Kind [link]
Theme: 4. my days are the highway kind
Words: 322
Rating: PG
Excerpt: My first night in I head to a bar and wait for her phantom to appear. I find her in this girl's eyes and this other girl's smile and this girl's way of moving.

Title: Blues [link]
Theme: 5. this is what it means to sing the blues
Words: 472
Rating: PG
Excerpt: Still, she sang on, in those quiet bars where one only goes to mourn and drink a little of the pain away again until the day.

Title: For the Love of Her [link]
Theme: 6. night, and the loves of...
Words: 301
Rating: G
Excerpt: Night is such a lonely thing now that she is not in it, breathing hard and smiling with victory.

Title: One Song [link]
Theme: 7. one song glory
Words: 287
Rating: G
Excerpt: She sang the day she died, standing on the shoreline of a winter beach, her words thrown back at her with sea salt.

Title: Ghost [link]
Theme: 8. the ghost haunting through your heart
Words: 486
Rating: G
Excerpt: The other day on the street I saw a girl with green, green eyes and my lips parted, your name threatening to spill over my lips.

Title: Laughing [link]
Theme: 9. "I laughed so hard, I nearly cried"
Words: 254
Rating: G
Excerpt: To separate them would be to break them, and I could not live without Sakura's smile. If not her love, then her smile.

Title: Fall [link]
Theme: 10. love is for the fools who fall behind
Words: 317
Rating: G
Excerpt: "Love is for the fools who fall behind," Tomoyo said once to Eriol, and he could see her breaking.

Title: Obscurant [link]
Theme: 11. the chimera obscurant
Words: 329
Rating: G
Excerpt: If I were not as good as I am, I never would have noticed the way her eyes linger on Sakura in a way that is not entirely platonic, and that her clueless smile is little more than a facade.

Title: Summer Loving [link]
Theme: 12. "you are the last line drawn in the sand"
Words: 235
Rating: G
Excerpt: She was wet and warm and smelled like life, a life Tomoyo could never have. She held out a hand made rough by sea salt and Tomoyo took it.

Title: Painful Instrumental [link]
Theme: 13. half accidental, half painful instrumental
Words: 1765 (part one of two-- #18 is the second part)
Rating: G
Excerpt: "How long are you going to cling to pain and not let yourself grow, Daidouji-san?"
"Love is forever," Tomoyo said quietly, twisting her hands in her skirt.

Title: Hollow [link]
Theme: 14. history repeats
Words: 374
Rating: G
Excerpt: Her happiness is my happiness, my hands are tied.
writer's commentary

Title: Eclipse [link]
Theme: 15. never seen a bluer sky
Words: 1017
Rating: G
Excerpt: She smiled and walked away into her new life with her blue sky and I looked up and thought, It just looks blue to me.
illustration

Title: Stars [link]
Theme: 16. defying gravity
Words: 400
Rating: G
Excerpt: I loved her in the uncompromising way of a child and the ardent way of a lovestruck teenager and the soft, committed way of a long-married housewife, and it is this committed love that has made me feel old these days.

Title: Pieces [link]
Theme: 17. all these pieces of you
Words: 532
Rating: G
Excerpt: I have all these pieces of you, and I wish I could put them together and gain the whole of you, but I can't.

Title: My Happiness [link]
Theme: 18. under the glass moon
Words: 652 (part two of two)
Rating: G
Excerpt: The moon loomed against the horizon the night I told Sakura that I loved her.

Title: Christmas in Vienna [link]
Theme: 19. echoes in winter
Words: 702
Rating: G
Excerpt: "All over the world," Eriol said, waving out the window to the nippy Italian winter, "and you've never found anyone to replace her in your heart?"

Title: Sleeping Together [link]
Theme: 20. fumbling towards ecstasy
Words: 302
Rating: PG for sexual references
Excerpt: Sweet Sakura, I will guard your dreams until tomorrow, when I place them in the hands of the only other person who could love you as much as I do.