Comments | hwango: LJIdol S11 - Second Chance - Week 3

hwango

LJIdol S11 - Second Chance - Week 3 - Busman's Holiday

Feb 29, 2020 17:53

Well hello, children. I was just enjoying the comfortable shade to be found under this bridge. No, that's not my abandoned fishing pole next to the stream, and of course I'm not hiding under here. What kind of disagreeable monster would I be to try to hide from such delightful and persistent children? Hmm...monsters who hide under bridges... ( Read more... )

curmudgeon, ljidol, fiction, s11

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Submitted for Your Convenience livejournal March 1 2020, 08:56:59 UTC

User karmasoup referenced to your post from Submitted for Your Convenience saying: [...] Hello, Children! [...]

bleodswean March 1 2020, 15:37:08 UTC

LOL! Delightful and droll and utterly entertaining! Your gift for naming is spectacular!

hwango March 1 2020, 23:56:56 UTC

Thanks! I like all the names I made up for this, but I'm particularly happy with Municipal Project 51C. A lot of the time I can point to a particular point in working on a story where things finally click and I really start to make progress, and this time it was when I realized that I needed to name the bridge, and came up with Municipal Project 51C.

tonithegreat March 1 2020, 17:20:12 UTC

The last line is so perfect! I can imagine running into such a storyteller as a persistent child. I love the detail of the abandoned fishing pole too. Nothing like a working vacay storytelling under a bridge. This is great!

hwango March 1 2020, 23:57:36 UTC

Thanks! Those pesky kids. One day they'll push the old storyteller too far. = )

rayaso March 1 2020, 19:08:00 UTC

Another great, loony story. I love this narrative voice, and I especially love stones who are too lazy to fall down.

hwango March 1 2020, 23:58:28 UTC

"The ground is right there! Come on, it's not that far!" "Nah, I don't wanna."

rayaso March 2 2020, 00:01:40 UTC

All they have to do is relax and let gravity do the rest. I guess if I had been a stone in a bridge for all those years, I wouldn't want any change either.

roina_arwen March 1 2020, 22:25:44 UTC

Wonderful tale! You had me at “I think it's safe to say that two of them were envious of the third one's name, but alas, not everyone can have parents who are civil engineers.” I giggled all the way through.

hwango March 2 2020, 00:00:16 UTC

Thanks! Civil engineers clearly pick the best names. = )