Ooooohhhhh.
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'First Date'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Beverly - Feb 12, 2008 7:00:32 pm PST #9762 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Typo Boy - Feb 14, 2008 2:12:16 pm PST #9763 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
For The Parting Shot challenge:
A Tender Moment
"Honey, you seem awfully tired this morning. You told me last week that today was the big meeting. Will you be able to sell your proposal to top management?"
"No problem, love of my life. You know how hard I worked preparing the presentation. I can tackle any questions or objections. Tired? I'm showered, shaven, breakfasted, caffeinated, and hydrated. I even have a twenty minute walk in fresh air to get to work. Everything that can keep a man alert has been done."
"Except getting more than three hours sleep instead of playing Evercrack. Good luck at work today, sweetheart."
sarameg - Feb 14, 2008 3:00:10 pm PST #9764 of 10001
Grown Up:
You turn up the volume on the television as I fire back in this silly unemotional debate we're having. I stop, stunned mid-sentence as the volume drowns me out and you render me invisible, irrelevant. The last of childhood's scales fall from my eyes and now you have to earn what was once freely and worshipfully given: my respect.
I guess you got your parting shot, but its mark wasn't what you intended.
Typo Boy - Feb 14, 2008 3:32:20 pm PST #9765 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
"this silly unemotional"
Was the "un" intended?
sarameg - Feb 14, 2008 3:33:22 pm PST #9766 of 10001
Yup. Very deliberately so.
Typo Boy - Feb 14, 2008 3:41:51 pm PST #9767 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Ok, sorry. In that case I don't really get it.
sarameg - Feb 14, 2008 3:57:18 pm PST #9768 of 10001
That's ok. It was meant to convey that there wasn't any hysteria or dramatics that might've warranted a shut down.
Typo Boy - Feb 14, 2008 4:47:29 pm PST #9769 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Ah, I was trying to read too much into it. I was thinking about a completely cold fight with no emotion behind it - the fierce argument equivalent of passionless sex, and trying to see what clue I missed that that was what was going on.
sarameg - Feb 14, 2008 5:10:56 pm PST #9770 of 10001
Yeah, I kinda failed. It was a parent/child thing. A boring debate, absent of any real import, that suddenly becomes a huge emotional break but not for the content of the original debate. Oh well, I don't attempt to make my living at this.
SailAweigh - Feb 14, 2008 5:12:49 pm PST #9771 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
sarameg, it worked for me. Maybe because it's one of the reasons my ex is my ex.