Title: Tea Ceremony
Author: Starsea
Medium: Fanfic
Theme: Fifteen
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Version: Manga (Crystal Tokyo)
Rating: PG-13

Sequel to Denial Is Not A River

I like pouring your tea, lifting
the heavy pot, and tipping it up,
so the fragrant liquid steams in your china cup…

I like to think of your cupped hands as you sip,
as you sip, of the faint half-smile of your lips.

I like the questions – sugar? milk? –
and the answers I don’t know by heart, yet,
for I see your soul in your eyes, and I forget.

Carol Ann Duffy

( Welcome to the tea party )

Top looks something like this. See the link for Amaranthine perfume.

The Green Fairy

Sequel to A Hundred Spires. Comes before Power Play.

Then he drank opaline.

Memories and terrors beset him.
The past tore after him like a panther and
through the blackness of the present he saw
the luminous tiger eyes of the things to be…

The past shed its perfume over him,
today held his hand as if it were a little child,
and tomorrow shone like a white star: nothing was changed.
Dowson

( Nothing was changed )

Author's Notes: The dance Venus and Kunzite are doing looks something like this.

Title: A Hundred Spires
Author: Starsea
Theme: Prague
Genre: General/Humour
Version: Manga (Crystal Tokyo)

Sequel to Breathing Space

( Perhaps it really is a time for free men to be )


Author's Notes: The Domus Balthasar and Café Louvre are real places. The text comes from the poem August 4th Old Town Square by Anthony Blake, written when he visited Prague in 1968 after Czechoslovakia rose up against the Soviet Union.

For sm_monthly

Title: Leave a message at the tone...
Author: Starsea (sea_thoughts)
Medium: Fanfic
Theme: Gateway (March)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Version: Manga
Rating: PG

( You must forgive me )

For sm_monthly

Title: The Empress and the Priestess (sequel to Seers)
Author: Starsea
Theme: Chastity
Genre: General
Version: Manga
Rating: PG

( the exasperating female, who both frustrates and delights, because her thought processes follow no rational development )

For sm_monthly

Title: Too Late For You and Your White Horse
Author: Starsea
Theme: Kaidou
Genre: Angst/Drama
Version: Manga (post Stars)
Rating: PG

(with thanks to alizep for beta'ing and general feedback)

( I was a dreamer before you and you let me down )