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Post by max on Mar 4, 2010 17:33:14 GMT 10
Title: Discordiana Rating: PG Length: 150 Competitor: Faleron Round/Fight: 2/A Summary: Small talk fail and strangeness.
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The winter when the war ends and the midwinter parties are filled with a shell-shocked generation, fresh from the battlefront (and jaded by it) there is a rush and surge of lovers, everyone she’s known hit by a desperate ardour, everything made more vibrant by the realisation of their mortality. Or almost everyone. In the intimacy of the parties held by her social circle there is only one person (apart from her) who seems immune to the urgency underpinning every gesture, every look, and so it is that she finds herself thrown into conversation with a man who she has drifted away from over the course of seven years. ‘You look like you’re enjoying yourself as much as I am,’ she says, inviting him to the share the irony, but he only shrugs, crosses his arms. ‘On the contrary.’ And then they have nothing left to say to one another.
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Post by jazzyjess on Mar 4, 2010 17:39:43 GMT 10
Their interaction here is very effective. I particularly like that the seven years they've spent growing apart don't just vanish the way they tend to do. I hope to see a sequel!
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Post by wordy on Mar 4, 2010 20:02:07 GMT 10
I really love this! It seems very realistic
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Post by max on Mar 4, 2010 20:09:03 GMT 10
Thanks! Yeah, this is a plausible plotline I'll probably try to follow up. Maybe sort of if it strikes me, anyway
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