Arkadian - Just Be Yourself / When You Least Expect It

Rating: PG
Word Count: 727
Summary: Opulence doesn't suit Paradigm, Kse's dancing doesn't suit Maxim (or anyone else, really) and there's always someone at these things that you don't want to see...

( The drinks were warm and the expensive foods were cold and silently Paradigm watched couples dance strange steps he didn't think he could follow in a million years. And the chairs were too hard. )

Arkadian - A Storm

Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Summary: Arkadiy hates the rain.

( The rain pounded against the roof. He stared down at his legs - not his legs, but still his legs, for his sins - and thought of the storm. )

Arkadian - On Second Thought

Rating: 15 / R
Word Count: 851
Summary: Arkadiy has to go into town, but doesn't quite pick up what he was expecting.
Notes: Contains references to sex and alcohol.

( There was one bonus: the pretty girl in the grocery store. Brown hair in thick curls, brown eyes that lit up whenever she saw him, it was enough to turn a man's head. Especially when the head was as easily turned as his. )

Arkadian - Anniversary / Memorial

There's one day that Arkadiy will always remember. He doesn't need to mark it in the calendar; he only has to look down.

Arkadian - You Remind Me Of Someone

Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Hundreds of millions of miles out, and too long after, Paradigm sees a familiar face.

( Goddamn backwater planet, why she'd landed here he didn't know. Chasing after psycho-blue-eyes, she'd zigzagged across the universe and he could only follow. )