you won't make yourself a name if you follow the rules

Here's [a meme] where I'll post the working title of a story, and the first sentence, for my most current WIPs. No pairing or summary info.

Sing, O Muse, of Claire, the daughter of Amelia and James—no, no, wrong genre and wrong tradition. —"Only Begotten Daughter"

So do I spend tomorrow going with my original plan of donating blood, do I drive the hour to the Occupy Locality rally, or do I do like Dad wants and stay home and clean the kitchen? Decisions decisions.