no meme since may?! for shame!

[aburningspirit]

the|alternate|universe|meme

ONE. list your characters (journal names optional).
TWO. others reply with one of those characters or a pairing for you to write; platonic or romantic is up to you.
THREE. pick five cliché AUs from this list (complete with explanations!), and write something of any length - a sentence, a paragraph, a drabble, or a full-length ficlet, if you'd prefer - for each of those five AUs, involving that character or pairing.

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[fugal]

Yuca?

i. supernatural

[harbingersoul]

Everyone knows the church on the hill is odd; some say haunted and some say cursed, but all agree that it’s got something to do with Father Collabel, late of twenty years. Ushers speak in undertone about the carefully articulated scripture murmured with the sermon, as if two pastors spoke, back before people had stopped coming. How the statue of Christ on the wall rusts through in a year, same time every year, right around Easter. It’s just Sister Freya and the children, now’; she sends out an order like clockwork and hangs up a shining images of the Lord just as he’d himself have risen that Sunday morning.

Inspectors shudder but the building is sound; the church sends fewer every year. They laugh and play like normal kids, but get quiet around sundown. Children hear moaning at night, they say. The cries of the sick. Nothing grows one that hill but the old oak tree; grass is yellow and springy, nearly white.

The fields are dry; the lake is low. The church still stands on that hill through thunder and rain, wind whistling through the rafters and bringing that hissing sound to the town below.

Everyone knows the old church is strange. The rain stopped when Father Collabel passed, no reverend after him, just Sister Freya and her children, now. But she says different, that the Father’s just waiting for rain, same as us.