Full text: "Flowering Dagger"

[hedgebird]

Fandom being what it is, I feel certain that at least one of you out there has wondered how Rosemary Sutcliff would have written a Bronze Age Romeo and Juliet-cum-Oedipus Rex-if you know what I mean scenario, and you, hypothetical but no doubt real reader, need wonder no longer. For it is a thing that exists

Comments

[bunn]

Wow. Dark indeed, but the nature porn is first-rate.

And oh, the first-time sex scene interrupted by unfortunate mole!

Thank you for posting this!

[moonlightmead]

Hmm - so you can see it? *peers at Google irritably*

[bunn]

I can, but I had to leave it a bit - I thought at first it wasn't going to let me see the whole thing, but I think it uses the same error message when a page hasn't loaded yet as it does when it is blocked, but then while I was wondering, the pages loaded in.

[moonlightmead]

I think you're right. I'm looking at it now. Hooray!

[hedgebird]

It is a bit "where no Sutcliff has gone before", isn't it? And yet that last day is lovely.

Thank Google, because it just popped up when I was looking up something for Sutcliff Wiki. My knowledge of its existence predates this post by about two hours.