Little Boy Lost

[lemurling]

A/N: Confession-- I don't know if I actually wrote this. I found it in my Hornblower notes, underneath a bit of poem I'm almost certain I didn't write, probably some scrap of Blake, but this segment seemed like my poetic style so I punctuated it a bit better and post it now. I know when it's meant to be, and in whose voice. (It is Archie, of course

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[eglantine_br]

Poor Archie. Another flavor of pain. Even the good things hurt. I am writing him back on the Indy, but struggling. Work is slow, but I am working...

[lemurling]

Sympathy. Youth of Delight has been fighting and fighting me. I have about 6000 more words written, including terrible terrible kissing. But the connecting tissue refuses to knit. It will come. I'm trying not to force it, but just keep going back and writing a few sentences here and there until it stitches itself together.