april showers: prompt 1 - after the rains

[katsie]

Title: After the Rains
Author:  eclecticmum
Prompt: Prompt #1
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
(T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land")
Fandom: Horatio Hornblower
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Archie Kennedy, Horatio Hornblower
Genre: Historical, Angst
Rating &

Comments

[queerlyobscure]

I have no more eloquent way to put this, but: I really, really like this.

[katsie]

Thanks very much! That is always nice to hear. :)

[n_e_star]

I was surprised to see a tag for this fandom, and doubly surprised by how wonderfully you fit so much emotion into such a short piece.

Bravo!