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Monday Fiction by Brenna: South of Damnation

Sep 22, 2008 12:02

The air at Damnation is hot and close, unbreathable with the weight of too many bodies. The regulars are squeezed up against the bar, banging their glasses on the gouged wood. I never used to come here ( Read more... )

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tessagratton September 22 2008, 19:29:36 UTC

LOVE.

brennayovanoff September 23 2008, 17:02:15 UTC

This is what happens to my writing when I hang out in Coyote Ugly for too long :D

serafina_zane September 22 2008, 22:02:26 UTC

Very nice. Goes well with a sore throat and the bleachy smell of setting hair dye. Also extremely ominous for the main character.

"Her bra straps are showing and so are her ribs" sounds like a line from a song. I like it.

brennayovanoff September 23 2008, 17:05:23 UTC

"Her bra straps are showing and so are her ribs" sounds like a line from a song.

Sung in a husky, scratchy voice and accompanied, no doubt, by a line about the bleachy smell of hair dye--this could be going somewhere!

simonhay_healer September 23 2008, 01:42:39 UTC

Wendigo, Lamia, Salome, Bathsheba?? I had a quick read in Wikipedia about this mob. Interesting. I wonder how you know these things and are then able to use them in fiction. I'm impressed.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? - William Blake 'The Tyger'

No I haven't searched the dusty archives for this gem. Gegu (my angelic guide) knows what I'm trying to say. He turns my head, makes me pick up a book, I flick through the pages, he says stop, and my eyes go straight to the line. mmmm, need more books, me thinks. Love ya work.

brennayovanoff September 23 2008, 17:00:30 UTC

That is my absolute favorite Blake poem! I will now expose the profound weirdness of my humor by saying that I find this Tyger! Tyger! riff unbearably funny.

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simonhay_healer September 23 2008, 22:43:33 UTC

Absolute favourite! Gegu's clever. The riff? I wouldn't have known it was a spin on a Blake poem. Profound weirdness? Yes. Interesting. I always wanted to be ubearably funny. I've managed unbearable.

The book I got the poem from was handed to me by the owner of the local second hand book shop. He told me I'd like it, which is strange because I usually buy novels. This is like the Poe thing.

sherwood21 September 23 2008, 05:18:06 UTC

YAY

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brennayovanoff September 23 2008, 16:49:36 UTC

Hahaha--thanks! Knowing my fixation with demons, I'm sure they'll be reappearing at some point (ominous voice: they always do).

sylstars October 2 2008, 05:09:24 UTC

I want some of that liquid. Or do I? Wait... what just happened here? I think I was completely dazzled.