Cereal for drabble
The seashells that were your necklace lie on your chest in a row, even though the sinew thong rotted long since. You were buried 2000 miles from a coastline – did you migrate here, come to this desert to die? Or did you trade for the shells, offering the finest squash and beans for something you couldn’t eat? Perhaps your husband gave you the necklace. Perhaps it marked your status. What did it mean, this seashell necklace?
I may not know your life, gone these 2000 years, but I touch my own necklace of turquoise and coral, & I know you.
Raq, that's beautiful.
Is the repetition of "long since" accidental, in the first sentence?
What repetition of "long since?"
Psst everyone, Cindy's craxy!
Um, no. Last-minute edits in the posting box. Thanks.
Like one more iota of craxy would be obvious on me.
Raq, try Kathryn Briggs for facts on myths, and maybe Bruno Bettleheim for psychological underpinnings of myths.
Um. Jack Zipes, too.
You know, apart from the Golden Bough, I honestly don't remember where and how I learned what I know about the mythology for that half of my family history? I mean, I read the GB as a teenager, but the stories, jack in the Green, all that, it was just always there. So, probably heard rather than read.
Erin, not entirely off-topic, but Laura Anne Gilman has, like 500 books, and enthusiastic about sending them to you. I'll be send her your info.
You should have my(admittedly less impressive) box by Friday or so, babe.
Laura Anne Gilman is sending MY classroom books?!
Wow. Like, whoa!
Thanks a squirmy bundle o' book-loost much, Deb!
And addendum:
Erika, babe, I am loads impressed, humbled and grateful to ALL who send me books, be it one or one hundred thousand.
It's not the quantity, it's the giving a flying fuck. Or a spinning fuck, dollface! ;)
Erin, she moved to smaller quarters in a different state recently, and when I told her what the books were for, she bounced.
We roomed together at WorldCon so I got to hold hand on the move and she got to hold mine on the piano/waiting/other stuff.
Didn't realise you were a fan - want me to hook you up?
