He turned his face into her hand and kissed her marked palm. “I love you, Kayleigh. But no matter how much I love you I cannot stay.”
“Why?” She cried. “Why is it that you cannot stay, and yet I would have to go?”
He sank to the ground to sit face to face with her. “If I remained beyond my two days, I would die. I would be like a rose plucked and put into a vase upon your dresser, but like that rose I would wither and die.”
From the Faerie Prince...the story I'm fiddling with. I love ANGST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Autumn Everyone!!!!
Lady Samwise
Miss Sweetpea aka
Michelle
About Me
- Michelle
- I'm a Mother & a wife who aims to put one word in front of the other, on a page, that will not result in the reader wanting to hurl.
6 comments:
I love angst, too. Is this a short story?
Lady Legolas ;o)
Oooh, me, too! I can DIG on angsty romance!
And, if everyone promises to keep this under their respective hats, I'll admit to a distictly wussy fondness for faeries....
Of course, the faeries I like are the rather dark tales of the Sidhe, like Goethe's "Der Erlkonig". I even know it in German!
Anyone here read "Faerie Tale" by Raymond Feist? That'll tell you my preferences there....
Precisely! Especially with the angel comment!
Reminds me of a lingering line from a movie: "Always singing praises, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to meet an angel?"
Faeries aren't cuddly. If they are, you'd better run and hide, because those are the worst of the lot! Those are the ones that will swallow your soul and tear out your heart, all while smiling innocently and delicately licking your blood off their fingers.
Yeah, I have a faerie tale back there on Burner 6 (that's the WAAAY-back burner, for those who don't know me), but it's not pretty.
The original tales were a blue-print for dealing with a harsh, dangerous life and equally harsh death. They were a way to rationalize how horrible, unexplainable things could happen and gave a sliver of hope that, in appeasing these "Good People" and following a few rules, one might be able to survive to the ripe old age of...40.
They aren't pretty.
Well, I must admit that this fairy (poor thing) got himself cursed by a waterwitch (who is a truly evil creature) Reading all these fairy tales gave me the perfect ending to a story I started over a year ago. The story does have two loves scenes but they are not erotic in nature. There is lot's of angst, lots of pain, for pretty much every character involved. Poor D (the hero)pretty much finds the love of his life only to find that she cannot breakaway from her own circumstances. It's kind of weird how I had already written that part eight month's ago. She can't break free.
D offers her the world, the sun, the moon, his love, but she would have to leave her world behind never to return again, and she cannot bear to do that...They are forbidden lovers, on two different sides of the veil.
I think it would be horrible to love, to have a short time together and then know that you could never see that person again. So my poor "D" once he leaves his Kayleigh will in his own words....
"I shall return to my world and fall into the field of flowers, never to wake again."
Another quote of "D"'s...."How do I tell her I sleep within the bud of a rose..."
The title to this story is called "A kiss from the Rose"
Now THAT'S what I'm talkin about! That's MYTHOLOGY, baby! That's beings who both wield and are bound by power living within the dictates of their existence.
It's not pots of gold and granting wishes. It's blood and death and angst and fierce, doomed love. It's EMOTION in its rawest, most burning form.
You go, girl.
Yup, that line's from Prophecy! Yay! Someone else who watches them!
Viggo! Viggo as Lucifer! *drools*
No, I don't think I'd ever really want to meet an angel or a faerie, though I'm sure I'd make the best of either situation. I definitely wouldn't want to meet Lestat, but I wouldn't mind meeting Jean-Claude. I know some people don't like LKH anymore, but DAMN Jean-Claude is FINE!
*grin* Sorry I made ya cuss, but....
Yeah, I love faerie lore. I love the sheer spectacle of it, the fact that they don't think like we do. I mean, Good and Bad have no meaning to them. How cool is that?
I'll definitely write that book eventually, but the trilogy's gotta be done first. *grin* When the trilogy's done, the sky's the limit!
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