Teenage Angst

[edgeofthewood]

My mother sings. I hate it when she sings. It works like this: I'm on my own, far away from here, minding my own business, and things start to shiver. Things start to shiver, and then I feel so comfortable and sickly happy, like nothing could ever go wrong again. That's how my mother makes you feel when she sings. I could be in the middle of

Comments

[keristor]

Hah! I like it.

[aunty_marion]

Nice! Sort of a modern take on 'Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad'. Only the other way round. Sort of. I like it, anyway!

[tigerbright]

Wow. What a wonderfully evocative snippet. The mother could be almost any supernatural being... even the Faerie Queen.

Also, the "and eight months" tells you VOLUMES about the speaker. I love it.