Thy Mother's Sword

[corvaxgirl]

If your mother bestowed a sword upon you, what would it be?

I'm thinking mine would give me a mechanical pencil with a sturdy eraser, she's an accountant.

Comments

[lyssabard]

Like justbeast, my mom is also a nurse.
She would give me a pill and say, "Take this," along with a lecture on being careful and discerning on my journey...and tell me that she loved me.

[wanderlustlover]

It would be made of the written words. Always moving, remembering all the words made and displaying all the ones ever being born. My mother literally birthed my life to libraries and bookstores and reading.

[sarapada]

My mom's sword would probably be a cordless phone with a verrrry long antenna like a fencer's rapier - that, or a pumice stone on a plastic handle.

[vixyish]

Mine would be a paper sword, made entirely of sheet music. All the notes and words on every page would be handwritten. Some of the sheets would be yellowed with age. Some would have her current name, some her previous married name, some her married name before that, some her maiden name.

It would be surprisingly powerful, not at all what you'd expect from paper, a la the anime series Read or Die.

[peneli]

An old-school actually made-of-metal Singer sewing machine. A violin bow. An encyclopedia. ...it's hard to think of just one thing. Something strong that can create something beautiful.