Wow...I'm not sure I'll come up with anything, which, in its way, is better than following that.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
But erika, you write beautifully about sense memory, damnit. Hell, I haven't beta'd a single piece of yours that didn't.
Deborah, I bought Robertson Davies' Murther and Walking Spirits yesterday. Have you read it?
Thank you! But now I have to write one.(I hate when the wife puts me on the spot in front of people. :))
PC, yup, and it's bloody brilliant (Davies may be the only writer out there who could pull it off properly), but we're in the wrong thread for that discussion: Great Write is strictly for original fiction. We need to take it over to Literary.
(I hate when the wife puts me on the spot in front of people. :))
Snerk. "But honey, you make the best meat loaf..."
Sigh. But this is the Last. Time. And you clean up.
Now, honey, you know I always do the dishes....
These are fantastic. Really ripping.
Noodling around with my own ideas. Sense memory isn't one of my strong points in writing. It needs the exercise.
Doods, we killed the thread.
OK. Another one:
Hair
It's only a lotion: Curel? Keri? The scent of my sister's flesh
Alice, nine years my senior, curled up on the bed behind me, wielding a hairbrush. She hated her tight ginger curls, never reaching her shoulders; like her hands, so dry that they would crack and bleed if allowed, her hair was brittle, and broke easily. She coveted my waist-length flyaway mess, red until illness stripped its pigment and gave me temporary ebony.
She would brush, stroking, her touch light. Sometimes, a long stray strand would escape, and she would gently bring it back.
Keri, Curel, my sister's hands.