redbrunja | THE HUNGER GAMES DRABBLE MEME

With the release of the finale book of The Hunger Games Trilogy imminent, it seems like an excellent time for a comment meme to whet fandom's appetite. (Plus I just finished my third reread of the first two books and yet still want more!)

So I present.....

THE HUNGER GAMES DRABBLE MEME

How To Play
1. Place a prompt as a comment.
2. Comment with as many prompts as you want. Seriously. Don’t be shy.
3. Reply to a prompt comment with corresponding story! This is a “drabble meme,” so no pressure to write anything more than 500 words. But I doubt any lucky OP would receive an unexpected epic with anger, right? So write whatsha want.
4. Feel free to pimp out this meme to all the communities you can think of + your flist! The more the merrier!

Prompt Examples
A lyric or quote! Katniss/Peeta, "Lend me a helping hand ‘cause I’ve been treating your heaven like a one night stand."
A word! Gale, patient.
A kink! Madge/Katniss, blindfold.
A bit of dialogue! Finnick/Annie, "I just miss you when you're gone."
An action! Prim, mending clothes.
A situation! Johanna/Haymitch, killing time at the Capital.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

(meme format totally cribbed from

stainofmylove .)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Katniss, birdsong.

She will sing for the past, and it's something like memory, jotting back with the melody.

(It goes like this:

Once, there was a place called District 12.

Once, she'd sworn she would never sing again.

Once, she was Katniss Everdeen.)

The words pour out, unfamiliar at first, then smoothing out into tunes of the things she will not, cannot say. There is something like her father and Gale and Peeta, and then every person in District 12. There is something about existence before the aftermath, because in the remnants of destruction, in the centre of the smoke and ashes and fallen memories, she is there and that’s the thing with aftermaths - you can only continue on when all else is gone.

She will sing because there is no one left - and what is left is not the same.

And she becomes the mockingjay, keeper of retained memories, whispered through song.

And so the mockingjay sings.

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Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!

Agree...I love the 'goes like this' line. It works perfectly!

Thank you! ♥

Oh man, GOOSEBUMPS ALL OVER MY ARMS.

Amazing job ♥

Thank you! ♥ Your comment made me smile.

Absolutely gorgeous.

Thank you! :)

this was so gorgeous, omg <3

Beautiful. I love this.

and that’s the thing with aftermaths - you can only continue on when all else is gone.

Oh my hell.

That is gorgeous. ALL OF IT is gorgeous.

Thank you very much! :)

Oh gosh, seconded about the goosebumps - I was shivering by Once, she was Katniss Everdeen.

So, so lovely. :)

Haha thank you!

I love this. Fantastic.

Thank you :)

This is amazing. Thank you for writing it.

Thank you for starting this meme :)

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redbrunja.livejournal.com - 2010-08-12 03:29 (UTC) - Expand

This.. feels like a song or or or epic poetry orrrr... ah! I love it!