Links and meme

[surexit]

Damsel, Arise: A Westboro Scion Leaves Her Church - affecting article about two young women who left Westboro Baptist Church.

The Paris Time Capsule Apartment - fascinating.

Meme? WHY NOT.

Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD

Comments

[osprey_archer]

MEME. This is slightly longer than 500 words, but it's such a short story that it seemed a shame to cut part of it out of the commentary

[surexit]

“Juliet, Juliet!” Juliet’s coming out of the ring, horses trooping obediently behind her, as the hiss comes from her left. So I did a week of work experience at a circus when I was sixteen, and one image that stuck with me was being 'backtage' (behind the curtains, next to the tent door - the Big Top I was visualising as I wrote this doesn't reallly have a backstage, but what else could I call it?) and one of the clowns in full makeup came up close behind me int he dark. He wasn't trying to be scary, he was just waiting for his entrance and hadn't seen me, but I was really glad at that moment that clowns under normal circumstances do not freak me out at all. She looks to the side, behind the curtain that hides the backstage area, and manages not to scream as Shawn, in full makeup, looms out of the darkness. Behind her, Rocky, the most nervy of her stallions, gives a soft whinny as he notices the tension in her body. I'm picturing Arabian horses here, because they're pretty. And Juliet's in skin-tight sparkly stuff, because she's

[osprey_archer]

I think everyone is envisioning Carlton trying to make audience members laugh, which is like the anti-Carlton, rather than Carlton bossing all the other clowns around, which I can totally see him doing. Maybe he comes from a long line of clowns?

Also I totally agree with you, moving characters through scenes sucks. Clearly they ought to have all their conversations while sitting still and sipping tea, because that would be way easier.

[surexit]

Yes, a long line of clowns! And he doesn't really like people laughing at him. It makes him grumpy.

Which makes him funnier. :D

NOT EVEN SIPPING TEA, because then I'd forget about it and they'd do something with both hands and argh. Just sitting. All the time.