Comments | mymisguided: [LJ Idol] Season 8, Week 11, "ecosystems in acrylics"

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[LJ Idol] Season 8, Week 11, "ecosystems in acrylics"

Jan 23, 2012 20:47

Challenge Name and Number: #11, Open Topic
Title: ecosystems in acrylics
Word Count: 1701
Warnings (if applicable): None
Summary: For someone unable to differentiate between imagination and reality, eventually they become the same thing.
Author’s Notes: Fiction. Magical Realism. I hope you enjoy.
( I’d painted the meadow outside, and while the first canvas is still matte and smooth, the last-tilted against the others, almost flat to the floor-sprouts thin, even blades of grass, growing up and out to cover the length of it. )

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Comments 44

shimmerdream January 25 2012, 01:02:35 UTC

This was great - I loved the mixture of fantasy and realism.

mymisguided January 27 2012, 00:50:40 UTC

That's what magical realism is all about, and that's why it's my favorite genre! =D I love writing it, so I'm glad that you liked the story.

Thanks for commenting!

m_malcontent January 25 2012, 01:15:03 UTC

Great imagery and word painting.

mymisguided January 27 2012, 00:54:21 UTC

"Word painting," haha? xD

I'm glad you liked it! =) Thanks for commenting!

lilycobalt January 25 2012, 01:56:54 UTC

Wonderful descriptions!

mymisguided January 27 2012, 00:57:05 UTC

Thank you! =) The story really is all about the descriptions and the imagery, so I'm glad that worked for you!

Thanks for commenting! =)

whipchick January 25 2012, 03:40:10 UTC

I really love the tree growing through the house - love your use of magical realism. And great phrasings, too - "it was a lie" and the repetition of it.

The one thing I questioned was the lack of contractions confused me about what time this was set in. Maybe you want it non-specific, though :)

Enjoyed the read!

mymisguided January 27 2012, 01:18:26 UTC

The dialogue has a few contractions, but the lack of them in the narration was a pretty conscious decision (I didn't want many sentences to be in the "I [verb]" format, and I wanted to keep things fairly ambiguous with regards to the timeframe). Magical realism is my favorite genre to read and write, so I'm glad it was an enjoyable read! Thanks for commenting!

nyxocity January 26 2012, 20:39:29 UTC

I absolutely loved the paintings coming to life (actual life with breath and all!), slowly taking over, so beautiful and magical. But I really want to know what he plans to do for Maria, how he's going to change it.

mymisguided January 27 2012, 01:41:34 UTC

Thanks for your comments! =) I'm glad you liked the story!

(It's funny, I have a lot of head-canon for this fic; in my head-canon, it's a hereditary illness, and if Maria wasn't dying and he would have stayed, he would have become a part of the nature himself, and so would have changed things for himself because he would have become perennial, like the flowers, and would have recovered from his own 'winter,' so to speak.) There's so much left unsaid, though; I suppose I could always come back to this setting or these characters in another story, if the prompts worked out.