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Title Kiss by the Book.

Author Egantine_br

Kit Marlowe

Word Count 685

Before you read it-- a little bit about Early Modern English speech. Thomas began his relationship wiht Kit using 'You' when he spoke to him. This just sounds normal to our ears, but it carries a specific meaning that he, and Kit, and everyone else could read. Thomas is a man of ( Read more... )

Title The Condition

Author Eglantine_br

Word Count 2361

Rating G

Kit Marlowe

The Condition

'Enough schoolbooks.' That is what Thomas had said. He had said on the day when Kit had been hot and shivery, and Kit had only looked up, silent, his mouth sticky with sweetness. No one ever had said 'Enough schoolbooks' before. There had been schoolbooks as ( Read more... )

The Influence

Author Eglantine_br

Kit Marlowe

800 words

The Influence

It had gotten worse overnight. Yesterday he had been tired, today he shivered and burned. Acrid sweat slicked his neck and thighs, stung his face. Each heartbeat pained his head, and coughing made that worse as it ripped at his throat. Kit could not stop coughing though.

Geoff and ( Read more... )

Here is the poem. I find it strangely comforting.

http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/nash.litany.html

Maybe I am just weird. This is Kit's world too-- of course.

Title A Chest of Songbirds

Author Eglantine_br

Raring G

Kit Marlowe

Word Count 844

“Hah,”

It was more an outgoing gasp than a word. He came down hard on his back foot, danced away again as his blade was knocked aside. The force was enough to numb his hand. The attacking point was under his guard, slick as a whip, the point at his throat.

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Title: Divinity is Best

Author Eglantine_br

Word Count 265

Kit Marlowe

Divinity is Best

“So, divinity?”

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Title: As Occasion Serves

Author Eglantine_br

Word Count 309

Kit Marlowe

“You are improving.”

Thomas looked up from the page. When he read a small line formed between where his blond eyebrows drew down. Last week, after their meeting in the goat pen, Kit had drawn his own fingers over the same place on himself, to see what it was like.. On Kit's face ( Read more... )

Hard to say anything new about Shakespeare. New for me is the best I can do. So this thought is new for me, but perhaps not to all of you. I think about him quite a lot. I hold Marlowe up against him, (not that way, stop snickering!) Shakespeare seems older. Of course he did get older. We know him in his middle age. I get a sonnet every morning in ( Read more... )

Title A Secret Heart Burning

Author Eglantine_br

Char Kit Marlowe

Word Count 1736

A Secret Heart Burning

It had been less easy getting back in by the window. Kit had barked some skin off the back of his left hand. There was no time to get back to sleep now. He heard the chimes go, four. He composed his limbs for rest, at least, sucking at his scraped ( Read more... )