The Extra Child
Setting: AU Sci-fi
A guppy playing at toughness, is your first thought. It’s not a charitable one, but still, you smile at her torn jeans, her brash tattoo, and the pouty lips that curl as you step into an adjacent corner of the clutter.
The silk ribbon on her hair is too soft and the fur of her cat is too white, too clean. Her blond hair is too light and too clean as well; you are pretty sure it would ripple through your fingers like water if you touch it. Even the shiver-inducing symbols scrawled earnestly about seem more mockery than threat, even though she’s old enough to know better. Truly, the on
To Wear Yellow Is To Be Happy by aixyutin, literature
Literature
To Wear Yellow Is To Be Happy

Inspired by: http://www.deviantart.com/art/green-care-384371609
That day, she decides to wear yellow.
It’s a soft shirt, the kind that doesn’t require ironing. When she rolls her sunshine sleeves and tucks the hem into her modernly raggedy, subversively comfortable jean shorts, she is just the right kind of weekend: an indolent but not rude weekend. Rude would be old tanks falling off shoulders and gym shorts, which she’s usually very okay with. After all, she in her youth and beauty owes nothing to this world. But rude wouldn’t be appropriate for today.
No, not today.
She clatters down the stairs and lets

The Extra Child
Setting: AU Sci-fi
A guppy playing at toughness, is your first thought. It’s not a charitable one, but still, you smile at her torn jeans, her brash tattoo, and the pouty lips that curl as you step into an adjacent corner of the clutter.
The silk ribbon on her hair is too soft and the fur of her cat is too white, too clean. Her blond hair is too light and too clean as well; you are pretty sure it would ripple through your fingers like water if you touch it. Even the shiver-inducing symbols scrawled earnestly about seem more mockery than threat, even though she’s old enough to know better. Truly, the on
To Wear Yellow Is To Be Happy by aixyutin, literature
Literature
To Wear Yellow Is To Be Happy

Inspired by: http://www.deviantart.com/art/green-care-384371609
That day, she decides to wear yellow.
It’s a soft shirt, the kind that doesn’t require ironing. When she rolls her sunshine sleeves and tucks the hem into her modernly raggedy, subversively comfortable jean shorts, she is just the right kind of weekend: an indolent but not rude weekend. Rude would be old tanks falling off shoulders and gym shorts, which she’s usually very okay with. After all, she in her youth and beauty owes nothing to this world. But rude wouldn’t be appropriate for today.
No, not today.
She clatters down the stairs and lets