Mine sort of straddle the line...
Angel: Yeah, I never told anyone about this, but I-I liked your poems. Spike: You like Barry Manilow.
'Hell Bound'
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erikaj - May 26, 2004 12:25:50 pm PDT #4813 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
deborah grabien - May 26, 2004 12:26:45 pm PDT #4814 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
OH! And since I'm in the writing thread, I had lunch with my COMPLETELY AMAZING editor today. And I have, in my hot little hand, the Minotaur fall catalogue, and "Famous Flower" has its own page, and the cover, and it's superb. Same theme was "Weaver"'s, but instead of the page being lifted to reveal the haunted building in the lower right, this one looks like a jagged tear, to reveal the theatre in the lower left.
Liese S. - May 26, 2004 12:28:53 pm PDT #4815 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Heh, deb. I was just thinking about that. Something about the medium, I suppose. I had become aware that I didn't like anything I'd written that wasn't autobiographical. I mean, drabbled, specifically.
And then it has to do with the themes, too, doesn't it. Memory, sense, hands. Those are all very personal things, very intimate.
deborah grabien - May 26, 2004 12:30:09 pm PDT #4816 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Liese, yup. Drabble as therapy, or catharsis: I really do love that.
erikaj - May 26, 2004 12:30:32 pm PDT #4817 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
A big "Go you!" for the wife!!
deborah grabien - May 26, 2004 12:31:49 pm PDT #4818 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
The wife curtsies and pumps her fist in recognition.
I wish they'd send the damned cover to Amazon for upload, already. They haven't even uploaded it to the online catalogue yet. But it's there in the print version.
Connie Neil - May 26, 2004 12:33:55 pm PDT #4819 of 10001
brillig
I have trouble doing fiction this short. I get obsessed with back story and set-up. If I throw "I" up there first, though, all that's done for me, even if it could be the wildest fiction to the rest of you.
Astarte - May 26, 2004 12:53:21 pm PDT #4820 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
And I have, in my hot little hand, the Minotaur fall catalogue, and "Famous Flower" has its own page, and the cover, and it's superb. Same theme was "Weaver"'s, but instead of the page being lifted to reveal the haunted building in the lower right, this one looks like a jagged tear, to reveal the theatre in the lower left.
Sounds fantastic.
Can't wait to have it in my grubby little paws. WooooooHoooooooo!
deborah grabien - May 26, 2004 12:54:31 pm PDT #4821 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Astarte, I just sat on the NYC subway system, holding it in my own hands and beaming like a loon.
§ ita § - May 26, 2004 12:57:48 pm PDT #4822 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Inspired by a post of meara's in LJ. I hope it's not too opaque:
It's simpler sleeping inside, now that she's closed. He'd always enjoyed the irony, with all the energy he could spare from being cold, poor and miserable. Irony was all he had left, and it wasn't enough to keep him going anymore.
He'd tried to make a go of it, lose his telltale paperwork, disappear into a new and better world. Better world. Everyone said so.
Ahh, sweet irony. The laugh became a cough, and then fell into shivers.
He rolled over, clutching threadbare wool against a New York winter. Huddled, wretched refuse indeed. So much for yearning to breathe free.