Umph, love. The exhausting oneself so one has a prayer of going to sleep. Been there. Sisyphus should have been a woman.
I like the man in the bayou.
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A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Connie Neil - May 06, 2004 6:04:25 pm PDT #4428 of 10001
brillig
Beverly - May 06, 2004 8:20:05 pm PDT #4429 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Man, Deena. You have your finger right ON that nerve. Um.
P.M. Marc - May 06, 2004 8:22:03 pm PDT #4430 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Damn, Deena. That's incredible.
Deena - May 07, 2004 5:44:46 am PDT #4431 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Thanks guys, and thanks to Aimee, because I was having a horrible time thinking of something to write until I read her drabbles. They goosed my muse.
Connie, I thought you might like him. I think he and Otis may know one another. I'll have to ask him next time he shows up.
Connie Neil - May 07, 2004 5:49:08 am PDT #4432 of 10001
brillig
I think he and Otis may know one another.
Great, two old men leaning back in rickety chairs, shootin' the breeze and telling tall tales. I'll tell Otis to bring his own spittoon.
Deena - May 07, 2004 5:59:20 am PDT #4433 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
You know, I never got my voices names. I should name them. I think my Juju woman is, in some weird way, related to your puritan, except she's scary, though your puritan sounds scary enough.
Connie Neil - May 07, 2004 6:14:49 am PDT #4434 of 10001
brillig
Martha, the nasty old woman in the long black dress. Otis' sister. It's always family that annoys you most. If your Juju woman has hard, dark eyes that follow you everywhere, tight, judgemental lips, and a sharp voice that's very clever on pointing out your flaws, then she's related to Martha. After I discovere Otis, though, she stopped bothering me so much. Made me feel just a touch sorry for her, meeting her tobacco-spittin', moonshine-swillin', foul-mouthed, cackling brother. But just a very small touch sorry.
Pix - May 07, 2004 6:20:21 am PDT #4435 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
As always, I'm loving the drabbles.
They goosed my muse.
I need to say this sentence over and over.
Steph L. - May 07, 2004 6:22:32 am PDT #4436 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Last night in class, I made my small group fast write (basically a drabble constrained by time, rather than word count) the "Sleep" topic. They loved it, so we did another fast write, on the forthcoming cicada invasion. Fun!
Deena - May 07, 2004 6:25:38 am PDT #4437 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
My Juju woman is mysterious, with deep, dark eyes that only turn hard when I really piss her off. She always seems to know more than I do, and is often terribly disappointed by my choices, with a, "You'll learn" air. I get the feeling from her that she could make bad things happen, but restrains herself, as if the knowledge that she can is enough without the doing. She's all potential menace, but the old man from the bayou usually flusters her and makes her go away. He doesn't have any particular power, except, maybe, telling the truth mildly. Nothing is a crisis with him. It's just life, meant to be lived.