I just liked her flat "I did it, yeah, whatever, the evil fuck had it coming, could you at least get the details right?"
Reminds me, P-C, curling up with your thing tomorrow morning, hopefully.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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deborah grabien - Jul 19, 2004 3:42:05 pm PDT #5790 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Susan W. - Jul 19, 2004 8:52:47 pm PDT #5791 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Bwah! to deb.
And I loved ita's fairy tale reference.
Let's see what I can do with this one....
Susan W. - Jul 19, 2004 9:15:52 pm PDT #5792 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Remember the girl who got scooped up by a press gang in 1799 or so in the key scene drabble from a few weeks ago? Well, she's back. I can't wait to finish my current novel so I can tell her story....
She can still wear her old dresses, but not the shoes. Five years in men’s boots or scrambling barefoot in the rigging have left her feet too wide and coarse for the silken dancing slippers and dainty kid half-boots her girl-self wore in that distant former life. The maid is dismayed, but Elizabeth shrugs. It’s not as if she could possibly pick up a splinter or even a speck of dirt going barefoot in a house as immaculate as Hardingstone Place. But the maid is unyielding. And so Lady Elizabeth Gordon, late master’s mate of HMS Hermione, goes down to breakfast with her husband and her brother clad in a dress half a decade out of date and the second housemaid’s best shoes.
deborah grabien - Jul 19, 2004 9:55:14 pm PDT #5793 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Oh, hell, Susan. That's perfect period, that is.
Susan W. - Jul 19, 2004 10:02:37 pm PDT #5794 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
t blushes
Thanks!
Astarte - Jul 20, 2004 4:56:45 am PDT #5795 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Very nice shoes drabbles.
Deena - Jul 20, 2004 5:09:04 am PDT #5796 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
In honor of having finally caught up in this thread (Yay! Fairy Tales! Murder! Brrr, ita!) I have a drabble!
Shoes
Our therapist is laughing at me as I tell her about the pediatric orthopedist and how he says the baby shouldn’t wear shoes unless they’re very soft-soled and then only when necessary for protection. I’m so excited, I babble, “Babies with poor vision use their feet, like eyes, to provide information about their world.”
She’s still laughing as she says, “I know that, but, I’ve never seen any of you in shoes anyway, so I didn’t think to tell you about it.”
This is true. My feet can’t breathe in shoes. My baby’s feet breathe and see for him, too.
Astarte - Jul 20, 2004 5:16:55 am PDT #5797 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Love that, Deena.
Deena - Jul 20, 2004 5:55:25 am PDT #5798 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Thanks, Astarte. I think maybe I should have named it the anti-shoe. Why can't I drabble fiction? S'weird. At least I got something out this week.
deborah grabien - Jul 20, 2004 7:44:21 am PDT #5799 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Deena, that's a beautiful, beautiful take.