1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.

2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.

3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the timeframe of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards! [I confess: inveterate beta that I am, I did go back and edit a bit--but I did not write more! I swear! I only fixed typos and so on.]

4. Do 10 of these, then post them.

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9. Yer Blues, the Beatles

Yeah, I'm lonely. I'm a hanyou, for fuck's sake.

But…there is more to it than that.

Every morning, I wake up and don't remember that she's gone, and when I can't smell her—fuck! I just want to die…

I've survived this long, but shit, to survive when you don't know what you're missing is damn paradise compared to this…

Every day the raptor of her absence picks out my eyes and nose and leaves them bloody and aching…Ears too, for that matter.

I sometimes wonder if I don't claw at them in my sleep or something; they hurt that bad.

But I don't; sleeping is one of the few states left to me in which I can see her. I lose her again every morning, but I wonder if it's not worth it…

I mean, how the hell else am I supposed to stay sane? What else am I supposed to live for?

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A/N: First person is fun, though I don't write in it often. I always get worried that my own voice will color my character's too much. But I think I did a decent job of keeping this sounding like Inuyasha, cursing and all. And I think I fit the song decently enough; with lyrics like 'Yes I'm lonely/ Wanna die' it's difficult to be all that chipper. And yes, that was an allusion to Prometheus and the eagle eating his liver every day. Not consciously on Inuyasha's part, but on mine. It's probably the only line in the entire thing that seems less than obviously in his voice to me. But hey, it's my interpretation of his voice; let me know what you think of it. Hope it comes of as IC to you too.