LJ Idol Week 42: Flies

[crisp_sobriety]

What follows is the best account I can give of the last three times I saw my brother.

The third-to-last time, it was mid-August, and he rang my doorbell. I can still remember what he looked like when I answered. A mirage with the heat-lines from the road all around him.

I said, “Jesus,” and he smiled.

Back then -there are years and years in

Comments

[medleymisty]

Beautiful and wonderful and all that is good, yes. :)

[crisp_sobriety]

:3 Like I said, I'm always happy when you like my entries. Thank you!

[roina_arwen]

Wow, very creative and ingenious!

[crisp_sobriety]

Thank you!

[halfshellvenus]

Such a fascinating story-- all the supernatural elements aside (the brother really was one heck of a 'doctor'), these twins who do not always get along and yet have such a strong connection that they also cannot entirely leave each other were an interesting microcosm of sacrifice and devotion.

[crisp_sobriety]

The twins themselves are what interested me most in the story, yeah. :3

Thank you!

[gratefuladdict]

This was amazing.

[crisp_sobriety]

Aw, thank you! :3

[reckless_blues]

Oh God, it's the guy in my icon

[crisp_sobriety]

Danyul. :3

"I've always thought that people say "Life is meaningful because it ends! Time is short! Make the most of it!" and so on just do it as a defense mechanism against mortality and none of that structure is at all necessary. But they do have a point that human philosophy, human drives, and so on, are going to change radically in response to all this ...So I'm attracted to stories with this sort of metaphor."Same. It's an interesting topic to me as well, which is probably why immortality is something that has come up so much in my entries