Post by Kit on Mar 20, 2010 1:29:41 GMT 10
Title: Letters Sent (2: Kel)
Rating: PG
Length: 203
Round: 3/A
Competitor: Alanna
Summary: Alanna answers a letter; is bemused by epistolary smalltalk.
Lady Knight,
Come now. “Your middle of nowhere” is my Great Southern Desert. You’ll get used to sand in your drawers after the first month or so. You have youth, still, and warmth, which is far more important. You were the only good thing about that last winter.
Does that answer part of your question?
I am unsure if your “wondering” about my thinking of you is courteous or coy. I should hope that by now you know better than to be either of these things with me. Yes, I have other people to write to, but they are old victims, used to the scrawls of a wife or mother who quotes parts of their own letters back at them because she has nothing new to say!
It is good to hear from you (see from you? The conventions of letter writing are weird, hollow things), and if you, “from time to time”, have any more brief, businesslike missives in you—that still make me smile, when I’m up to my eyeballs in the paperwork that’s been following me around since I hit my mid-thirties—they would be appreciated.
Of course I think of you.
Keep well.
Your friend,
Alanna, PS&Ol
Rating: PG
Length: 203
Round: 3/A
Competitor: Alanna
Summary: Alanna answers a letter; is bemused by epistolary smalltalk.
Lady Knight,
Come now. “Your middle of nowhere” is my Great Southern Desert. You’ll get used to sand in your drawers after the first month or so. You have youth, still, and warmth, which is far more important. You were the only good thing about that last winter.
Does that answer part of your question?
I am unsure if your “wondering” about my thinking of you is courteous or coy. I should hope that by now you know better than to be either of these things with me. Yes, I have other people to write to, but they are old victims, used to the scrawls of a wife or mother who quotes parts of their own letters back at them because she has nothing new to say!
It is good to hear from you (see from you? The conventions of letter writing are weird, hollow things), and if you, “from time to time”, have any more brief, businesslike missives in you—that still make me smile, when I’m up to my eyeballs in the paperwork that’s been following me around since I hit my mid-thirties—they would be appreciated.
Keep well.
Your friend,
Alanna, PS&Ol
Great characterisation, you show Alanna perfectly!
Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!