FIC: [Torchwood] - John Ellis (1/1) PG

Title: John Ellis
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: John Ellis, Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG
Words: 1,406
Spoilers: for Torchwood 1x10, Out of Time
Synopsis:: John Ellis explores Torchwood.

( John Ellis )

crossposted to torch_wood, jackxianto and torchwood_fic.

FIC: Torchwood [drabble] Mercy

Title: Mercy
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Suzie Costello, Lisa Hewett
For tw100 Challenge #5: Suzie Costello
Words: 100
Rating: PG
Spoilers: for Cyberwoman

( Mercy )

The hamster wheel...

For a while the new budgies, Phoenix and Longshot, were a little overwhelmed by their new surroundings and were being fairly quiet, sitting shoulder to shoulder on a perch and assessing their new world. With Logan trying to impress them with his acrobatics in the adjacent cage.

Today, something has happened to wake them up. Jumping beans? Coffee? They are in constant motion this evening, exploring under the paper in their cage bottom, climbing through the rungs of their ladder, jumping from perch to perch, and running, running, and running some more in the hamster wheel. Fast running, too. I could put Longshot in a race and win money betting on him. My goodness those little legs can move.

I'm feeling lively too - not so much physically as mentally. The other day I had dinner with commodorified and was impressed by her mental energy and vocally envying it. Well, this morning I wrote a story before work, finished a massive job at work, wrote a drabble when I got home, and am now reading to embark on making a bunch of Christmas presents - shh! don't tell the recipients I'm making them chocolate in decorative molds.

Booking Through Thursday: Audio-books

Got this from Booking Through Thursday: The question, "Audio books: yes or no?"

The answer: Of course yes. Audio-books are fun. They are ways to revisit books I have read and loved. They are ways to entertain myself while cooking or washing dishes. They are ways to check out authors I haven't tried. They are ways to listen to the voices of some of my favourite readers - Sam West, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann, Ioan Gruffudd, Roy Dotrice (who reads the George R.R. Martin books) - I can't recall who read The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold, but he was excellent. Or the person who did the reading for Jonathan Strange and Mister Norell.

The reader makes so much difference. I once listened to an audio version of Dolly and the Bird of Paradise by Dorothy Dunnett. The narrator-protagonist is a make-up artist from the Glasgow area, with a marked Glasgow accent. To my horror, the reader's accent was straight New Jersey. I couldn't listen to more than a chapter or two.

There are downsides to audio-books: They're expensive. I can't afford them. The library doesn't get as many in as I'd like, and the ones they do get are often damaged by overuse. I don't have time to listen to them - I prefer silence when walking or on the bus, or when doing most things. And often the books I like and the readers I like aren't matched up.

Still: a good audiobook is a joy and a delight.