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Professor Quinn's ship was a trim blue small-crew freighter. The name, according to the computer at the docking gate, was Expression of Gratitude to the Capital City of My Homeland.

"Expression of Gratitude to the Capital City of My Homeland?" said Lyndy. "The name's larger than the ship is!"

"There's a story there," said Professor Quinn. "But I'm not going to tell you if you're going to be like that about it."

"Oh, go on," said Lyndy. "With a name like that, this is clearly a NaNoWriMo draft. Lengthy anecdotes are a cheap way to bump up the word count."

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(I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year. But if my brain is going to keep handing me ship names like that, maybe I should.)

An inspirational writing meme, which I got from lost_spook. Five fandoms, five random poetic prompts, 250 words.

( The instructions )

An interesting experience. The Doctor Who one leapt out immediately and more or less fully-formed, the rest took a while longer. (Speaking of longer, several of them wanted to be, and required careful and ruthless pruning.) When I saw the prompt that lined up next to The Muppet Show, I was worried about what might result, but I think it turned out all right.

( The fandoms )
( The prompts )

( Batman / 'but on the whole fifty was a mess as though' )

( Doctor Who / 'The laughing flowers that round them blow' )

( The Muppet Show / 'there I saw hope barbed as barbed wire.' )

( The Pretender / 'To lend an Ample Sinew' )

( The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club: 'Which helpless Nature drops' )

( Bonus: Sapphire & Steel / 'An' found myself in seven days of mostly atmosphere' )

For the drabble meme, john_elliott requested: Delilah Tod being forced to team up with Jack Harkness.

( 100 words of Delilah Tod and Jack Harkness getting along like a house on fire. )