Nominations + drabble

[beer_good_foamy]

Sweet! I got nominated again - and this time for a brand new award comm, which is even more cool. Great to see that this fandom, like the famed parrot, isn't quite dead yet. :-D Thanks so much!

So for kinda_gay_award:

Brazilian (Faith/Buffy) for Best Ficlet
Easy-Bake (Willow/Tara) for Best Willow Slash and Most Heart-Wrenching
Five By Five By Five By... (Buffy/Faith/Faith/Faith...) for Best Lighthearted

There's lots of other good stuff there too, so go check it out and nominate something.

Also, here's a drabble for open_on_sunday's challenge "Pan."

Pan Am Highway Blues
Post-"Becoming"

They run out of road in Panama. After haggling over the fare to Colombia, Spike kills the ferryman and steers the boat himself, as if they couldn't get out of North America quickly enough.

Now he stands at the helm, watching the dark ocean, while the DeSoto sits quiet on the deck. The lights ahead promise a new world, where it's just him and Dru and she'll talk to him again and everything will be back to normal.

And yet... he looks behind him. Bram Stoker was wrong, vampires can cross water just fine. It's going back again that's difficult.

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Nice! And congrats on the noms.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[angearia.livejournal.com]

*sings*

Congratulaaaaaaaaaaaaaations to yoooooooooooooooooou!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I rock. :-) Thanks!

[angearia.livejournal.com]

No, silly! I'm the singing rock star. *points upthread*

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Yay, and yay!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks, and thanks!

[shapinglight]

Congrats on the awards and noms. Also, great to see you posting fic again. It's been a while, hasn't it, or have I missed stuff?

And great drabble. You don't write Spike often, but that was perfect.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And no, you haven't missed much; my muse has been slacking off something terrible lately.

And I'm glad you like my Spike. I'm not sure why I don't write him more - I think it's partly that everyone else does. :-)

[shapinglight]

Well, not everyone, but certainly a lot of people on LJ.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Congrats and I must go and read...

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[candleanfeather.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. And your Spike is indeed very good... (well, that may not be the perfect word for him right at this moment in his history but you know what I mean.... :)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I very deliberately had Spike kill someone as if it were no big deal in this one. I like s2 Spike. (Not that I dislike the rest of him, but it always bugged me when writers have him start his redemption arc way too early; cheapens it, IMO.)