So, I know I sometimes rant on here about what despicable little brats my sisters are, bemoan how they don't respect me and in general fear that my love suffocates them.

My youngest sister, who is painfully talented at most everything and undeniably lucky besides being just a tad spoiled by my parents, recently turned 13. I've been feeling like she doesn't want to relate to me and doesn't appreciate me.

Today is Monday. My other little sister has school until tomorrow, and I wanted to do something special for her. Earlier this year she learned that she is allergic to a protein in milk products. It's not like being lactose intolerant. She can digest lactose, just not this other protein. So she can have only soy milk. The thing is, she really loves cheese. So I have been hunting for soy cheese, and it turns out that there is a health food store in Modesto that might carry some, and I need to go to the muni golf course there to buy a round of golf for my Papi's Christmas present. There is also a vinyl record store down the street from there, and since my 13 year old sister is really into music, I wanted to buy her a record.

About an hour ago I went into her room to gently wake her up and tell her we're going to Modesto today to buy her and Nene and Papi some presents, and she rolled over, fluttered her cute eyelashes and mumbled

"You don't have to get me a present, Divina. You give me presents every day."




I just about cried.

Alright, so I've been sitting on this for about a month and a half, and the only person I've told is Adi (for the obvious reasons). Even though I've been sort of squirming with the desire to just TELL YOU ALL, but that would be no fun, and I dearly wanted this to be fun. So let's tell a story!

A few months ago, I asked for a few volunteers to help me crit and edit original fiction. Some brave, kind souls agreed, and consequently had to put up with reading my original stories and offering crit. Except they suck because they still don't offer enough crit. CRIT IS TELLING ME WHAT'S WRONG GUYS, NOT WHAT'S RIGHT kdasjfoiajs;flksd but I love you anyway ♥ Anyway.

Two months ago, I posted one particular short story. It was one that I was very nervous about showing anyone, because this was the world of my nano. These were my two main characters; the relationship that would drive the whole story forward. But I figured that nervousness or not, I needed help, right? So I posted it to the crit group filter.

At the beginning of the entry, I included this line: Do you guys ever do something crazy and then five minutes later are like..."what the hell did i just do and why?" That's because, about ten minutes earlier, I'd had a bit of a spontaneous nervous breakdown and had sent the story in to Reflection's Edge, my favorite e-zine for genre fiction. I love it to death. It has stories by Dru Pagliassotti, the author of Clockwork Heart. I didn't know that when I fell in love with RE, but I was looking through the archives and THERE SHE WAS and I sort of swooned in my seat.

Point is, I sent it in. A week and a half later, the editor of Reflection's Edge wrote back and told me that she'd loved it, and would love to host it on RE.

Then I told Adi, who squealed with me. Then I didn't say anything.

Well, the Holiday issue was released today. And there's my story, right there among them.

Viy.

RIGHT THERE. THAT'S MY BABY. THAT'S MY DARLING BABY BOY, MY POOR PRECIOUS BABY WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO AND HAS SUCH A HARD TIME OF IT ALL oh i love him so much /sobs

Anyway. Please read, and I hope you all enjoy!

P.S. seriously guys CRIT MEANS CRITICISM.

ha. ahahahahaha that's my baby.

Title: Into The Woods
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: NaruSasu, various others.
Rating: R
Genre: Humour, Mystery, Romance, Action (um there is a lot going on here...)
Warnings: Death, blood, sex, language, violence, drugs, angst, preoccupation with Sakura's breasts etc.
Word Count: 7000/150,000
Summary: Naruto and Sasuke were once something close to friends. Ten years later, watch as Naruto struggles for a future, Sasuke discovers the truth about his past and two lives entangle irreversibly.
Disclaimer: This story is seventy percent my beta, five percent me, and twenty five percent anything I have ever read. I take no credit.
Notes: Beta'd by frickative who finds betaing...confusing. This is the last chapter of ITTW. Parts 27, 28, 29 and 30 will be epilogues.

( Into The Woods Part Twenty Six )

a couple of my favorite parts:

Oh... I hate being sick. I hate allergies. Lately I've been waking up with a raw, inflamed throat and a runny nose and phlegm. My sisters and I spent the night at my Tia's house and forgot my medicine, so I had to sneak out of the house in the morning while they were still asleep, come home and take the medicine and a steaming cup of rat piss chamomile tea before going back there for breakfast.

Breakfast was heaven. Raisin toast French toast with cinnamon and powdered sugar.

We watched Cloverfield last night, and I liked it a lot, and then we watched Empire Records after breakfast, and I loved that. I am very inspired to write an Axel/Roxas piece based on it, but I have giftfic to finish.

Meantime... for my whole flist: A Divina Sound Track, containing all of my current favorite songs.

Title: Seldom Woods
Rating: What's the point? Srsly.
Genre: General, Romance, Humour
Warnings: Shameless tree love.
Word Count: 4000
Notes: Beta'd by frickative who has an addiction to farmville. SECRET'S OUT.
Summary: Sasuke takes a walk and finds something unexpected. A story about friendship, loneliness, distance, and cake.


AN: I've continued Seldom, but I don't really know how long I'll keep writing it for. We should at least get to December.

(  Don't you ever get lost? Naruto asked abruptly. )

Title: Into The Woods
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: NaruSasu, various others.
Rating: R
Genre: Humour, Mystery, Romance, Action (um there is a lot going on here...)
Warnings: Death, blood, sex, language, violence, drugs, angst, preoccupation with Sakura's breasts etc.
Word Count: 5000/150,000
Summary: Naruto and Sasuke were once something close to friends. Ten years later, watch as Naruto struggles for a future, Sasuke discovers the truth about his past and two lives entangle irreversibly.
Disclaimer: This story is seventy percent my beta, five percent me, and twenty five percent anything I have ever read. I take no credit.
Notes: Beta'd by frickative who finds betaing...confusing. The next update of this story will be on MONDAY. Thanks for all the comments on the side-fic! frickative loved them.

( Into The Woods Part Twenty Five )

I think this week is ITTW week XD. It's a good week to be following ITTW!

While I was writing ITTW, my wonderful beta frickative actually wrote a few side pieces. Some where short, some were longer, and all were fabulous. A couple of them stand alone, and as she wont post them, I will do it for her.


Title: Someone Like You
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: SaiSaku
Rating: R
Genre: Humour, romance.
Warnings: Mime, Gray's Anatomy.
Word Count: 1400
Summary: While Naruto and Sasuke's adventure winds to an end, some things are just beginning.
Disclaimer: This story is written by frickative, NOT me.
Notes: Beta'd by me! Ha ha. Read to the sound of "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon for maximum effect. Fully compliant with ITTW, if a little more lolsome.


( Someone Like You )

Title: Into The Woods
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: NaruSasu, various others.
Rating: R
Genre: Humour, Mystery, Romance, Action (um there is a lot going on here...)
Warnings: Death, blood, sex, language, violence, drugs, angst, preoccupation with Sakura's breasts etc.
Word Count: 600/150,000
Summary: Naruto and Sasuke were once something close to friends. Ten years later, watch as Naruto struggles for a future, Sasuke discovers the truth about his past and two lives entangle irreversibly.
Disclaimer: This story is seventy percent my beta, five percent me, and twenty five percent anything I have ever read. I take no credit.
Notes: Beta'd by frickative who knows me way too well. This is a very very short section. I'll update again this week to make it up to you. Also, I'm going on holiday next week. Knowing me, I'll let you sweat for a month on the biggest cliffhanger of the entire story.


( Into The Woods Part Twenty Four )

Every reading of The Little Prince makes me sadder.

I really think this book was meant to grow up with you, your philosophies of life. You should read it first when you are in middle school, maybe, then put it down and read it at the beginning of high school. Read parts of it sporadically and randomly all through high school. Read the entire thing in one sitting when you've graduated high school. Put it down. A year after that, and every year from then on, read it again. Take a whole week to read it. A whole car ride. Read it very late at night when everyone is asleep.

I really don't like to tear books apart with analysis, but last night when I read it and had to stop toward the end because I was crying, I decided that maybe the Little Prince sort of represents the author's childhood. All throughout the book he writes about how "strange" grown-ups are, how children are much more wise in their Taoist P'u. So at the end when the Little Prince is gone, it's a true loss of childhood innocence, isn't it?

Collision
Season 1 Episode 4

New Characters: N/A

Synopsis: Peter and Issac both get closer to their destinies through Hiro, and Nathan escapes from The Man in the Horn Rimmed Glasses and the silent Haitian.

( full recap )

TO BE CONTINUED

This year in my japanese class, I made friends with a girl called Zara. At first I thought that she was going to be my arch nemesis, because I'm called Sarah, and Zara is like, the opposite of that, but it turns out that she's really cool.

And obviously totally into me, because I'm sexy like that.

Anyway, this one time we went out for lunch and we were talking about writing, and one thing led to another, and we ended up talking about fanfictions. Although awkward, it was really amusing, as we both avoided eye contact and tried not to mention lube. Eventually, we discovered that we both shipped NaruSasu.

Hooray!

So, I convinced her to get LJ (I had to down a lot of noodle soup. That stuff is really JUST monosodium glutamate and I'm sure it raised my blood pressure by worrying amounts) so that we could .. both have LJs!

She's a good writer (thank god, because wouldn't that have been embarrassing?) and a cool person and as such, the plan is to KEEP HER on LJ, so that we can both be on LJ. See, it'd be nice for me to have someone running in the same online social circles as me.

So what I'm doing here, is basically pimping her writing, which you can find here and her journal is here. She's not having the awesomest time navigating LJ and I really don't want her to leave, so I am appealing to you, f-list. Please be nice. ^^ In the meantime I will try and convince her to use double spacing.

I'll repay you with fic. Like you could ever doubt it.