Brigit's Flame, week 2, October

[keppiehed]

Title: The Other
Author: Keppiehed
Rating: PG
Warnings: adult themes
Word Count: 273
Prompts: Compulsory Prompt: That despairing feeling when the bus pulls away from the stop when you’re a street away. Additional bonus Prompt: Disillusionment
A/N: Written for week #2 at Brigits_flame.

Comments

[bluegerl]

I do NOT like this week's prompt. It is full of autumn sadness, and wet leaves and the ending of...
Oh Keps. this is so SAD, and so ... hopeless? I do not LIKE it, though I do so very much appreciate the lovely metaphors and patterns you have woven with your words. I do NOT like this sadness. it is permeating everything. You have written such a lovely piece, but it is very close to home... too close, and needs a tissue or six? Thanks love, but oh I do want a happy prompt next week! Take care, Love you, and hope you have received....? Squishes.

[keppiehed]

Oh, you are a dear! This is not about me, so you do not have to be sad on my behalf! I think I take other sadnesses and turn them into something not quite as close to home, something that I can process more easily on the page. But I do quite agree that though cathartic, it is time for something a little more peaceful, especially when this season tends to be gloomy and we get trapped in feeling sorry (or I do, anyway!)

And I am STILL on the lookout for something. grrr on the slow post! >:-(

[bluegerl]

Wretched postie man! Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in its petty pace.... and so on... it will COME - i DO HOPE!!

No its just the sad story from Splix this morning, it is a grey day, and the prompt is grey and lowering... and... I know you can be so sad... I dunno... normally I like autumn but it is behaving oddly this year. I mut get my head round it tho. see if I can turn it into a funny..... might be able to! Think Positive!!!!

[keppiehed]

It will definitely get here. I blame living so far away from everything! But arrive it will, and then I will have reason to smile!

I will write a happy story next just for you, how does that sound? It will be a challenge, I think, but I do not want to put you in the doldrums! The best cure for melancholy is piano, I find. Let me pour all those tears into some George Winston, and then I will be able to have a clear head for something less blue, how does that sound? :D *and hugs and is happy to have such a very dear friend*

[leticiae]

That blew me away! Such wonderful imagery. I couldn't decide though if this was unrequited love, a lost love, or some combination of both.

You have such a skill of writing that I am so jealous of. Kudos! You are a master of the pen. :)

[keppiehed]

Ah, thank you so much! What a lovely thing for you to say! (this comes on a day when I got one of those nasty rejection letters, so I am really really glad to hear that you find me to be worth reading!) Thank you for your most timely words of cheer and comfort! ♥

[hbart]

It has just occurred to me that the reason I cannot seem to put anything serious on paper is because there has to be harmony and balance in the universe, and your stuff if so sad and melancholy that I have no choice but to laugh it up a bit on my end. Sooo, maybe you should do humor and leave me some room on the other side. However, sad or not, I thought this was a beautiful piece of writing, and you are clearly back from your former writing slump. *is joyful*

[keppiehed]

I'll tell you a secret: humor is MUCH harder to write! Why do you think I stick with all this adolescent angst? ;) Keep doing what you do best; it takes more skill than you give yourself credit for. I have tried my hand at a piece or two to know! I'll read humor every day over these tearjerkers (I just don't have the chops to pull them off!)