Curling Like Pink Tea Cups

I've been trying to write about this topic for nearly ten years now, and I finally wrote something that I didn't feel should immediately go in the garbage. Thanks to kitty_poker1 for all your encouragement and kind words about this fic. You are very dear to my heart. Thanks also to secondverse for writing "Skin Through the Trees" and kindly talking to me about your experience of writing it. Finally, thanks to crazydiamondue for asking Yin to unlock the fic for me.

Title: Curling Like Pink Tea Cups
Pairing: Anya/Xander, though this is not a shippy fic
Rating: Adult
Email: lunabee34@yahoo.com
Beta: kitty_poker1
Warning: This fic deals with abortion.


I took the title of this piece from a poem by Anne Sexton.

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Some recs and a lament

They're doing the funniest thing in fanthropology right now. Drabbles about a fandom issue, which sounds dry and boring but is really heeeelarious. Read them HERE. And then write some of your own. Cause you guys make with the funnies all the time. If I can force some cleverness I might do one. (I'm thinking you, suki_blue, with all your hilarity). Heeeee..... ETA: I did one. Not a good one, but I did one. *snort*

Secondly, rayne_y_daze, you simply must read Five Decisions Ethan Rayne Never Made if you haven't done so already. You'll love it.

And now for the lamenty portion of this broadcast. You know how you know something but you don't *really* know it until it bites you in the ass? Well, I've been steadily gaining weight since I was a sophomore in college. I mean, in highschool, they used to call me Titanic, but that was always followed by Tits and not Neck Waddle. I knew I should be concerned about my weight, but it was so easy just to not give a shit. Well, I went to the MD today for a sinus infection. And guess what? My blood pressure is HIGH. And not from looking at velvet_virago's pictures. So, Lorraine has to lose weight. The doc says fifty pounds, which is pretty much exactly the amount I've gained. Maybe now that someone has told me I'm on the road to seriously screwing my health up, I'll actually do something about it.