September's Author of the Month: VividlyVisceral

Hello all! This month we'll be honoring the lovely and talented VividlyVisceral!

Best known for her epic submit-your-own-tribute story The Capitol Games, Vivid also has several other stories well worth the read. Most of them contain very violent imagery, but it's not all about the gore: she captures the horror and emotions of the Hunger Games and the rest of Panem with a force not often found in the fandom. Here is an excerpt from I Am Maysilee Donner, a masterfully-written one-shot:

In District 12 twins were something of a rarity- an amusement. They so rarely survive their fateful birth after all. Peacekeepers would taunt and sneer that they would one day have to brand us with numbers simply to be able to tell us apart. Maysilee would cry at the thought have having a number seared into her flesh, and it was always up to Mayleine to cheer her up. No one else could rescue Maysilee from her nightmares but her other half, after all.
Occasionally the two would play simple mindless pranks on their Mother and Father. A simple "Good morning Maysilee." Would be answered with an annoyed "I'm not Maysilee- I'm Mayleine!" or visa versa – and when their parents' backs were turned we would swap a grin; just as we swapped identities.
It was a game that only we could play. No one else. It was a game for sisters, the one thing they could use to rebel against their parents, their teachers, their classmates- the Capitol.
Only our game to play. And the more we began to play it, the closer we began to grow and overlap... until neither Maysilee nor Mayleine were recognisable to one another. We were one. One but many.