No, Deirdre, she wouldn't go to conventions. (I once had to write a long letter to her explaining why D & D role playing was NOT the work of the devil. I'm not sure I convinced her and she'd definitely look askance at large gatherings of SF & F folk.)
The question was a poorly executed attempt to suggest that the sneaky-evil sister in your story reminded me of that particular sister of mine. Sigh. My written personal jokes have been falling flat lately. Maybe I'd best rein in that urge-to-quip for a while. : > }
Oh, dear, didn't mean to squelch your fun! Quip away.
When I was a kid, my brother taught me, all too well, an automatic reflex to react to quips in ways that, well, squelched his fun, seeing as how the fun from quips he shared with me was nearly always at my expense. Now, of course, as often as not, the reflex serves me poorly.
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April 8 2011, 14:47:28 UTC
Congratulations on finishing something before Saturday! I can tell you have an affection for this world through your descriptions and the central relationship.
“Mother-I-we thought you a prisoner.”
“I was-I-“
I'm not certain how to read these lines. I think they're supposed to be read as stammering. In the LJ setup, the dashes are very long, though copying and pasting them shortens them up.
That's a lot of story in such a short piece. Raising chaos as a workable force by singing the alphabet song out of order and swinging erratically is a really cool idea. The betrayal surprised me as much as it did poor Lilyana. I'm left wanting to explore the story in more depth, in the hope that either there's another side to it, or that if it's as sad as it seems, this isn't actually the end.
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(I'd worry if you found it uplifting.)
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Have you met my older sister?
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As to your sister, I don't know--if she goes to conventions, it's possible.
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The question was a poorly executed attempt to suggest that the sneaky-evil sister in your story reminded me of that particular sister of mine. Sigh. My written personal jokes have been falling flat lately. Maybe I'd best rein in that urge-to-quip for a while. : > }
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When I was a kid, my brother taught me, all too well, an automatic reflex to react to quips in ways that, well, squelched his fun, seeing as how the fun from quips he shared with me was nearly always at my expense. Now, of course, as often as not, the reflex serves me poorly.
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I'm glad you stopped by!
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“Mother-I-we thought you a prisoner.”
“I was-I-“
I'm not certain how to read these lines. I think they're supposed to be read as stammering. In the LJ setup, the dashes are very long, though copying and pasting them shortens them up.
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Thanks for stopping by!
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At least there's some hope for another twist in her fate with this ending. :-D
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