To be truthful, I can't really think of any great lie I have told. I'm sure I've said little lies now and again, though there's none that really spring to mind ( Read more... )

Since the weather was pleasant that day, Fuchsia decided that the best place to entertain her good friend Amy was out in her parapet garden overlooking the castle-city of Gormenghast. There were refreshments brought to the thatch-roofed open-air pavillion at the end of the parapet, and nearby Fuchsia's pet ferret Master Snow scampered about in a ( Read more... )

After some consultation with one of her chief court advisors, Fuchsia came back to the Journal page where the question was written:

What would you place in a personal ad if you were making one?After some consideration (and looking through the part of the Journal where others wrote their responses), Fuchsia took pen in hand and inscribed the ( Read more... )

What makes you feel vulnerable and what makes you feel invulnerable?When I'm happy I feel invulnerable -- when the sun is bright and I'm in a good mood and feeling whimsical and everyone around me is doing what they should be doing and isn't grumpy, then it's a rainbow party! And I'm queen of it all...or countess of it all, rather, but that's good ( Read more... )

Do you know, I don't think I have ever been truly drunk. I've had wine with dinner on several occasions, and there have been occasions in Steerpike's company when I've had enough to feel...fuzzy. But no more than that ( Read more... )

It was not really a matter of the amount of the gift that was important to Fuchsia -- after all, she was Countess of Gormenghast and had all of her needs provided for quite handsomely by the castle-city's coffers. And certainly as she and Steerpike were nowhere near the most extravagant rulers that Gormenghast had ever seen (it is a matter of ( Read more... )

Fuchsia stared at the words written upon the previously blank page of her journal, and hastily scrawled a reply before leaving the room and going to play with her pet ferret in her garden, with every intention of forgetting the question was even asked.

Does heartache make you stronger?No. All it ever did for me was make me want to die. I never ( Read more... )

There's no question about it -- Steerpike has had the greatest influence on both my life prior to dying, and after waking up from dying. Although in this second existance, I think the Honorable Mention of influence goes to The One Ring. But I'll get back to that in a bit ( Read more... )

Much to the disappointment of the Earl and Countess of Gormenghast, it was found that Fuchsia had not conceived as they wished. And therefore when Fuchsia was siezed with the inspiration that they might turn their plight to the attention of The Heart -- the mystical order that gathered deep amongst the ancient foundations of the castle city -- ( Read more... )

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