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[keppiehed]

Title: The Lonely Baker
Author: keppiehed
Word Count: 1252
Prompt: first line must begin: "For the third night in a row, the baker found herself up alone at two a.m. making sausage.”
A/N: Written for musemuggers. Challenge #525, Option #4(#524).

Comments

[rubyelf]

Usually, giving voices to the inanimate is done in a rather heavy-handed way, but you make it seem so perfectly natural, with the personalities and voices seeming so at home and knowing the baker so well.

[keppiehed]

Thank you! Although this one didn't feel like it gelled for me. You know how you have an idea in your head and it just doesn't go on paper the way you want? I've been all writer's-blocky so I was really dissatisfied with it. It feels way more male chauvinist and less charming than I intended, like a woman's life isn't complete without an engagement ring or something, and I want to just scream. I'm chalking it up to the impending holidays, which are enough to drive anyone nuts. Wah! I hope you are having a better time of it!

[bardiphouka]

I am a great admirer of literary pieces that tend to walk a tightrope between different genres. Such as this. Is this a metadream or a fantasy or is she hallucinating? We are not really given the slightest clue. I like to think that in the end it might be as simple as real friendship replacing an imagined one. It certainly feels quite real. But then that is at the heart of most of your writing. Regardless of theme or style the bottom line is that it feels...real.

[keppiehed]

That is quite a compliment, and I thank you for it. You have hit upon the truth, I suppose, though I hate to be so pretentious as to discuss my objectives as a writer and I prefer to let my work speak for itself. But I feel I owe you a little bit more, since you have given such a thoughtful comment. I do strive for that bedrock of reality, regardless of the genre. Whether it's fantasy or drama or comedy, I do like to think that I have created something real in emotion that people can relate to. So thank you very much for recognizing that even in this slight and offhand piece, which I considered a bit of a throwaway. :)