And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street (Stargate Atlantis)

TITLE: And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
LENGTH/RATING: 100 words, PG
WARNINGS/SPOILERS: None
SUMMARY: I blame Theodor Geisel. *nods solemnly* Written for sga_flashfic's Must Be Dreaming challenge.


( He doesn't realize he's dreaming at first.  )

26 story prompts (or: Fun with alphabets...)

So I need to catch up with snippiting (and get back in the habit of following random tangents), so forthwith I give you... alphabet prompts! Of course I need to actually flesh them out a bit in order to make decent snippits from them, but it's not bad as a start. *grin*

As I use them up, I'll put the date I posted the snippit to. Lots of backdating for now... ^_~;;

1. Anything was not always better than nothing, at least not when it came to things that went bump in the night.

"2. Better you than me, and I mean that in the nicest way possible." (4/22/08)

3. Cavalry was never quiet, even when you mounted it on cats.

4. Death and taxes couldn't hold a candle to the tide.

5. Every sound chased her down the hallways, echoing into a thundering cascade of noise.

6. For each man that fell, two wardens rose in it's place.

7. Great, just great. She surveyed the wreck that was the store. Well I don't suppose it can get any worse. Let's go.

8. Half of the battle was not knowing, because once you knew you certainly weren't going to keep fighting!

9. "I can't believe I let you talk me into this." (5/13/08)

10. Just in case this goes south, you remember the pattern, right?

11. Killing him wasn't the hard part, it was keeping him dead that was starting to get annoying.

12. Laughter was a welcome change from the emptiness of the plains. (4/9/08)

13. 'More or less' is not an acceptable answer to 'Is this going to explode?'

14. Now if you throw in the pair of ceramalinks, then I might be interested.

15. Other than the lack of air, the planet was actually quite pleasant.

16. Possibly one of the stupider things he'd attempted in his youth, still Yavn was quite proud of the pair of Usslik tusks that adorned the entryway.

17. Quicker than the eye could follow --which wasn't hard considering the eye's belong to turtles who weren't paying that much attention to start with-- she was gone.

18. Rather than spend the rest of the day arguing, she relented and let him continue on in the belief that nothing rhymed with orange.

19. Snow covered the forest in a darkening blanket, held aloft by leaves grown massive in the tiny gravity.

20. This is how the world ends... except it had already ended twice and the chance that it was going to actually end were pretty much slim to none.

21. "Unless the world is ending in the next-" she glanced at the timer, "-four minutes, then I'm busy."(4/4/08)

22. Violence was always the answer, except, of course, if you happened to be the one getting attacked.

23. Weather was such a wonderful thing, rain turned the roads to mud, snow hid gopher holes, ice sliced pawpads to ribbons, even sunny days turned rough stone into a hotfoot race. No matter what happened, they just couldn't win.

24. Xylophone? Xeres? Xandau! Nope, Petra was pretty sure that nothing interesting began with an 'x'.

25. Yes, now leave me alone!

26. Zero gravity was about as much fun as, well, something that wasn't much fun.

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