Regret Eternal

[ithildin]

The lovely mmapmaker challenged me into believing I could actually write just 100 words, so this is for her.




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Glass under my feet, his presence fading. He told me he’s leaving because of what I’ve done, but I know that’s not true; it’s because of what I have not done. I should have judged him, turned him away, rejected him utterly. That was what he wanted, what he needed to justify leaving. Because leaving was what he did best. I should have remembered that. Maybe then it wouldn’t have felt as if my soul were dying, maybe then I wouldn’t have hated him. But it was far too late now; loving him was a regret I would never outlive.


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Having never written a drabble, I don't know what the posting etiquette is, so suffice to say it's Highlander and Methos -- like that's a surprise :)

Later: you can find the 'sequel' here.

Comments

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Since I wrote this first one, I've come to rather enjoy writing drabbles :)

[dejla.livejournal.com]

They're nice if all you have is an image, and you want to immortalize the image. That works.

And it's actually the way I tend to start a story, with an image, one that I either need to get to, or one that I need to work from and see what happens.

But that's the really tricky part, of course, finding the rest of the story in the drabble.

So yeah, if you can write one like this, which is just one perfect moment suspended like a pearl at the midpoint of a chain. It could roll to the beginning or to the end, and as it stands, you don't even know what the chain's made of. But if you go on with it, then it changes from that one single pearl and becomes a string.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

It's hard for me to keep it short, so I find drabbles a good discipline for writing [g] I think most of my stories come from snippets of conversation/dialog that I 'hear',

[dejla.livejournal.com]

It is good discipline, if you can do it... I can, sometimes. (banging head against desk) since 'ravens' is up to the 43K word mark now and simple gifts is 45K and neither one is done.