Seven Things That Never Happened to Tam Lin

[tamnonlinear]

So, I present to you, on the eve of All Hallow's Eve, a bit of fiction. Enjoy. This was written hastily several months back and sat for a long time after that, but it's back and I'm putting it up and out for the holiday

Comments

[qos]

A marvelous Halloween offering!

The last one hit me the hardest.

[tamnonlinear]

Hee. I was going to end with one of the happier ones (well, relatively speaking...) and had it originally set up to alternate back and forth, but one of my betas gave me an "end on this one!" as a comment for the (current) last, and I took her advice.

The last one was fairly nasty, but it's a fair point. It IS difficult to make a sympathetic hero out of someone who you know has done horrible things, and it's a fair read of the story to say that Janet was by no means the first woman Tam had dealings with, though we never hear about them. There's the old saying that the special women's entrance to hell says "Maybe he'll change", and I wanted to see what I could do with that.

Women's Entrance

[qos]

Can I quote you on that last bit?

It's so, so true!

Re: Women's Entrance

[tamnonlinear]

It's not original to me. I don't know where it comes from (I assume someone on my friends list DOES know, so speak up) but a short google search with terms like women's entrance to hell and maybe he'll change... the results got very depressing very fast, so I couldn't bear to search.

But you can certainly feel free to steal it, same as I did.

[neadods]

the special women's entrance to hell says "Maybe he'll change"

There are two doors - "Maybe He'll Change" and "I'm different." (As you had the guard point out.)

[tamnonlinear]

Yeah, every bastard out there argues that being judged by their actions is somehow unfair or unkind.

Do you know where the saying comes from?

[neadods]

No, I don't. Where?

[tamnonlinear]

I don't know either, I'm asking.

[neadods]

Sorry, dunno. But if you ever find out, I'm curious!