First the congratulations and the prompt: This week we had two aces. Michael of Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations went outside the box with the cosmos of newborn parenting in Baby Monitor, and Tina of Not Just Another Mother Blogger came through with a calculated tale of domestic abuse with The Laughter of the Cosmos.
I asked them both to open a book and give me the first line from each. Tina chose Shadow of the Night by Deborah Harkness. Michael chose Winter Journal by Paul Auster. Your lines this week are:
From Shadow of the Night:
And from Winter Journal:
You can use these lines in any order, however you must begin the story with one and end it with the other. Please identify the lines in the story by enclosing them in quotes, bolding, or italicizing.
And now, my excuse prologue; I'm trying something a little...well, crazy here this week. I have been writing and linking up to several prompts every week. I've combined prompts and I've written separate stories to the individual prompts. This week my goal is to write one story, and split it into parts. Each part fitting one of the prompts I use. It's my hope that each part stands alone, yet makes one understandable tale all together.
Part one is here Part two is here and Part three is here and Part four is hereOkay then, on to the story....
“The past cannot be cured, Meeribel.” Arlord said. “You are Princess of the Realm of Windmore. All the choices that were made, by you, by myself, or by others, have placed you here.”
“Well, a princess could, if she had the knowledge, inspect the royal flocks. Then she could report on the disposition of those flocks.” Arlord continued, “I have no real expertise in that matter. I can only accept what is told to me by the royal shepherds.”
The End???
Well... wisdom and a compromise!
ReplyDeleteA very satisfactory resolution, Renee! Yay! I hope you enjoyed writing in the tight serial format, because it's been fun reading it.
These are wonderful. I loved how you linked the story up to different prompts!! Does 'somewhat poetry' count toward using the lines from these book? It looks like an intriguing prompt, but my attention span and writing skills won't allow a story exactly. :)
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