Rose.

If you don't have my love treebyleaf on your LJ friends list, you might not have seen this, so I want to make sure you do:

http://www.treebyleaf.com/rose.html

It's a really excellent story that she wrote for me as a birthday present. She's only going to be leaving it up for a few more days, so read it while you can.

When I first met treebyleaf, her writing was, well, nothing special, to be honest. But this is brilliant and beautiful and True -- better, I'd have to say, than anything I've done, frankly.