OMG, thank you THANK YOU for this - you just pile one treat on top of another -
#SNAKES (I love snakes) - and the visual (emerging from Luke's beak) omg, it's marvelous-
#CROWS you know how I love crows (and the dread they can inspire; the Onion's epic crow, that "harbinger of doom")
#BUTCH omg CASSIDY omg the blond hero silhouetted at the door, the sun illuminating him and the crows, the multitudes of crows - and then, miraculously, the message of brotherly love, which, if Kennelly is to be believed, perfectly captures the sunny, lovable and humane spirit of the immortal Butch...
This is EPIC!
You are brilliant. I only wish everyone else had read the source material you've read, the myths, the legends, the actual HISTORY behind these images.
I'm stammering like an emu regurgitating a snake - I'm that speechless!!!!
I spent a LOT of time dreaming up this story, and very little time actually writing it, so it's pretty much a freewrite. And as all freewrites do, it has stuff in it that surprises even me.
I wanted to take out GMYL and use some of her words, make Butch speak the way she had him speak, but it's packed at the bottom of a box of books (I'm packing) so I had to wing it. Silhouette is a word I was grasping for and couldn't find, so I'm super glad you saw it that way.
I published this story less than 15 minutes before payout of the contest post. Super rushed it! It came out OK though, like a parable. I wonder if most stories, cut down to only their bones, would read like parables.
OMG, thank you THANK YOU for this - you just pile one treat on top of another -
#SNAKES (I love snakes) - and the visual (emerging from Luke's beak) omg, it's marvelous-
#CROWS you know how I love crows (and the dread they can inspire; the Onion's epic crow, that "harbinger of doom")
#BUTCH omg CASSIDY omg the blond hero silhouetted at the door, the sun illuminating him and the crows, the multitudes of crows - and then, miraculously, the message of brotherly love, which, if Kennelly is to be believed, perfectly captures the sunny, lovable and humane spirit of the immortal Butch...
This is EPIC!
You are brilliant. I only wish everyone else had read the source material you've read, the myths, the legends, the actual HISTORY behind these images.
I'm stammering like an emu regurgitating a snake - I'm that speechless!!!!
I spent a LOT of time dreaming up this story, and very little time actually writing it, so it's pretty much a freewrite. And as all freewrites do, it has stuff in it that surprises even me.
I wanted to take out GMYL and use some of her words, make Butch speak the way she had him speak, but it's packed at the bottom of a box of books (I'm packing) so I had to wing it. Silhouette is a word I was grasping for and couldn't find, so I'm super glad you saw it that way.
I published this story less than 15 minutes before payout of the contest post. Super rushed it! It came out OK though, like a parable. I wonder if most stories, cut down to only their bones, would read like parables.
thanks for the great comment!