A Moment Too Soon

[van_halcyon]

Sir Ribald chuckled as he stepped further into the drawing room, stirring up little flurries of dust as he went. His eyes quickly grew accustomed to the dim light. A cache of international treasures cluttered the study's tables and cabinet shelves. A mid-seventeenth-century Qing Dynasty sabre; the cartographer's compass of Marc Lescabot himself

Comments

[chaoticraven]

Another wonderful piece dear. Good to see yer still alive.

And the Albatross begins to be avenged.

[colbybfox]

Em. I love your allusions in your writings. I think you and I have identical minds when it comes to our taste in lore. I love The Rime!

I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;
But or ever a prayer had gusht,
A wicked whisper came, and made
My heart as dry as dust.

Your story is fascinating. Post and post often.
Y/f
Fox

[anonymous]

Why is it that everyone can see how wonderful a writer you are but me?
I mean... I know you are, and I do like to read... But I swear all I get when you write about this Lady, or Good Sir So-and-so is:

Lady fair's hair was golden as she blah blah blah blah......

or

The trees whistled in the slight breeze seeming to quietly cheer as [insert rugged, sensitive yet overwhelmingly attractive and succesful manhood here} rode in on his noble steed. His blah blah blah.....

I dunno.... Maybe Im defective. Or maybe I lose interest when you show lack of concern for real-life happenings. What have you written about Lily?

::Tsk, tsk.::

[van_halcyon]

Phaw, AJ. Why do I have to defend myself? Some people like brussel sprouts, though for the life of me I cannot fathom why. Others don't. So I guess that means literature is like brussal sprouts? Or something. You don't have to like mine; nobody's twisting your arm. But you are, of course, most warmly welcome to keep your unpleasant opinions to yourself--barring poignant suggestions and critical content analysis. Merci beaucoup.

And for the record, "A Moment Too Soon" was designed to mimic corny British literature, in that it is both paid-by-the-page verbose, melodramatic, and absurd.

Re: ::Tsk, tsk.::

[_dark_pixie_]

Hi, I would like to tell you that I have compiled to VHS cassette tape, all that I ever had on my camera of Ms. Lily for AJ, and I thought perhaps, that you would like a copy. Most of these are moments that you weren't there for, because we didn't live with you, and may want to have. Birthday #1, Halloween segment, Christmas 2003, Birthday #2, and other random moments of Ms. Lily, being herself. PLus the first time she ever did a long distance walk across the room without falling or simply sitting down. Gorgeous moments if you ask me, I had a good time watching all of the tapes, though it is not well edited, all manual editing so it is not top notch by any means, but at least it now exists if you would like a copy.

Get back to me whenever you can, this is a good source to contact me at.

Have fun.

Megan