Like Wrecks of A Dissolving Dream

[mercury_rose]

The world's great age begins anew,

The golden years return,

The earth doth like a snake renew

Her winter weeds outworn:

Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam,

Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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the mourner

He loses count of how many drinks he’s had tonight.

Getting pissed, becoming so inebriated that

Comments

[anonymous]

i like the format: each snapshot a little piece of a larger triumph and tragedy. nice work, i definitely enjoyed this.

[mercury_rose]

Thank you!

[chocoluvr]

Good story in showing the different characters in how they react to the end of the war.

[mercury_rose]

Thanks for your review :)

[harktislark]

I love the short, searing bits of insight you give. Particularly the drabbles about Lucius/Narcissa and Peter. There's not much from Peter's point-of-view out there.

[mercury_rose]

Thanks! I wasn't sure about writing Peter, he's definitely not one of my favorites or anything, but he was a survivor too, and his story is still pretty tragic and interesting.

[ariana789]

As always, so wonderful! The last one especially was touching. I think you really tapped into the core of their relationship - that beneath the superficial bickering, there is this intense love for each other, the depth of which really is revealed in times of war. And I think you captivated the way, even with times being hard, they think they're blessed. They aren't bitter about being poor, because they know from experience and living through a war that money isn't important.

But all of them were excellent. The Andromeda one was definitely sad, given how much she loses later. And the Walburga one was suitably creepy!

(Also, Romantic poet love! I'm more of a Keats girl, myself, though.)

[mercury_rose]

Thank you! That's what I was going for with the Weasleys. In general I don't think I'm great at writing them, but I do quietly appreciate Arthur/Molly and wanted to give it a shot.

You're a Romantic poet fan too? I'm not huge on Keats, but I lovelovelove Byron and Shelley. Byron especially...a good analogy would be that Byron is the Black family for me, and Shelley is everyone else...sometimes I get enamored with someone else but sooner or later I always return to the Black family (Byron). And that's just the way it is...and thus ends that super dorky analogy.

[mercury_rose]

Awww, thank you!