I was JUST about to post that I earwormed myself with the Carol of the Bells!

I was JUST about to post that I earwormed myself with the Carol of the Bells!

Totally unavoidable.

My head can sing all four parts at once. It's kind of awesome. I wish my voice could do that too.

Man, I am LOVING these drabbles. What an incredible variety of stuff. I have an idea for one, but haven't quite put it together yet...

Your drabbles have been momentarily interrupted so that I can follow deb's lead and post a lyric. I'm posting this one 'cause I like it, and 'cause I can't really work out what to do with it. It's not hard enough for my boys' band. Please resume your regularly scheduled drabbling thereafter.

walking on down

i'm walking on down again tonight
i'm walking on down again tonight
don't wait for me, i got a ways to go
'cause i'm walking on down again

grows the crocus in the early morn
falls the locus of the poisoned dawn
let me whisper sorrows in your ear
still you'll miss her with every breath of fear

stray dog choking on a bit of broken bone
old man smoking on his curb of cobblestones
drops of ether fall on the lens of morning
you'll be with her waking without warning

still walking on down again tonight
walking on down again tonight
don't you wait for me, i got a ways to go
still walking on down again tonight

Anyone want to help me pick a title for the work-in-progress? I've been calling it Anna and the Sergeant, to parallel its prequel, Lucy and Mr. Wright. I like the Lucy title. While it's not an old-school traditional Regency, it has much the feel of one--it's just 20,000 words too long and a little too sexy. So I think the retro title works well. But Anna's story is very different. Where Lucy is a comedy of manners taking place at a house party in pastoral English countryside, Anna is a gritty war story with death and sex and forbidden passion across the class divide. So I feel like the existing title doesn't fit. Now, I know publishers often change titles, but I want to make sure my title fits, A) to make it easier to market it and B) to increase the odds of the publisher keeping it and not saddling my poor book with some generic, forgettable title like Dangerous Passion or Forbidden Ecstasy.

Which is all a longwinded way of asking if I should keep my current title or go with something like The Sergeant's Lady.

Debet, that was a nice, easy, very charming way to slide on in.

Liese, we need to exchange tapes. Nic's supposed to be uploading our old band tapes (including a legendary afternoon called the Saturday Sessions) up, for transference to CD. Soon.

Susan, when my brain is working, will think more about that.

A Lady's Sergeant comes down harder on the side of the class divide focus for me. Something that sold the divide, like The Countess and The Sergeant would have more of a bang … If there was a Countess. "Lady" does not immediately go to 'noble', on a glance.

GUS!

Drabble something, babe. Go for it. How are you? Since I no longer hangt out in Natter at all?

Drabble something, babe.

Word says the last post was 49 words. Are 51 words enough to tell you that I am well, that I now reside in Switzerland, that I have made an alliance of the heart with a South Korean woman who makes my aged heart thump?

Yes. Word says they are.

"Lady" does not immediately go to 'noble', on a glance.

Well, in this case, it shouldn't--she's a lady in the sense she's rich and part of the gentry, but she doesn't have a title. But I like The Lady's Sergeant, too. Must ponder.