Jun. 18th, 2009

nebroadwe: (Bear)
I took in a professional baseball game last night. It was Faith and Family Night, which meant that we were favored with a creditable version of the American national anthem and a rousing rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by gospel choirs. (Aside: if I ran the universe, the American national anthem would not be permitted to be sung by anything smaller than a quartet, and the seventh-inning stretch would always be solemnized by "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" -- not by "God Bless America" or anything else. Potential minions, take note.) Then the visiting team opened up a three-run lead in the first and it was all downhill from there.

And it rained.

Not apocalyptic rain, with hail and thunder, but a gentle, persistent, chilly drizzle. There's something very "Casey At the Bat" about sitting in the cheap seats swathed in a plastic poncho and watching your team lose in that kind of rain. People started leaving in the fifth, which I couldn't quite fathom: even the cheap seats are cheap only by comparison to the leather-chrome-and-champagne luxury boxes, and my team has demonstrated a penchant for improbable late-inning comebacks over the season thus far. They managed to load the bases in the ninth, but the opposing manager wisely switched pitchers and that was the end of that. Ah, well. We'll get 'em next time.
nebroadwe: Write write write edit edit edit edit edit & post. (Writer)
Title: The Weight of the Paper
Fandom: FMA (anime or manga version; slightly AU for timing)
Character(s): Falman; Mustang and his crew; and Sheska.
Pairing(s): None.
Word Count: 6125
Summary: Hughes is gunning for Mustang and Sheska's caught in the crossfire. Will Falman take a bullet for her?
Warnings: None. Suitable for all audiences, without being a kids' film.
A/N: Now revised and complete at last! (My only excuse for the two-year delay is that comedy is hard; for proof, you can have a look at the original first half here, if you wish.) The setting deviates from both manga and anime canon in that it places the offices of Colonel Mustang and Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes in the same building while Falman is working for the former and Sheska for the latter. That never happened ... but if it had, I think this might have been the result ... Concrit welcomed with an official seal. Crossposted from [livejournal.com profile] nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e. [livejournal.com profile] hagaren_manga, [livejournal.com profile] fm_alchemist, [livejournal.com profile] fma_gen, [livejournal.com profile] fma_writers and [livejournal.com profile] fma_fiction).
Dedication(s): Still for [livejournal.com profile] jennawaterford, past master of Amestrian office politics.



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