Romany ([info]romanyg) wrote in [info]open_on_sunday,
2004-01-26 01:00:00
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Hope Is A Blossom Of Glass

Wesley heard this joke in a pub once:

If you took all the nerves from a man and laid them end to end--that man would die.

Now he knows this isn't true. He is a wire, resonating. A thin line of love.

"Love can be a terrible thing."

He believes this. Love encompasses beauty and terror. Love is a bottle of milk on the stove.

If he could choose anything, it would be this place. To watch a man, his son in his arms.

Hope is a blossom of glass, unfurling in his chest--erupting in a thousand shards of laughter.


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[info]chrisleeoctaves

January 26 2004, 12:48:59 UTC 8 years ago

Oh. This is beautiful. It's filled with lovely imagery and powerful prose. Cheers!

[info]romanyg

January 27 2004, 01:16:12 UTC 8 years ago

::blinks at your icon:: What? Oh.

Thank you. The Wes of AtS 3 just broke my heart. All those hard choices.

[info]allegraconbrio

January 26 2004, 14:36:34 UTC 8 years ago

simply lovely, Romany. Excellent.

[info]romanyg

January 27 2004, 01:05:08 UTC 8 years ago

Thank you!

[info]kivrin

January 26 2004, 17:20:05 UTC 8 years ago

This is really nice. I especially like the contrast of the abstract and the concrete in Love encompasses beauty and terror. Love is a bottle of milk on the stove.

[info]romanyg

January 27 2004, 01:09:25 UTC 8 years ago

Thank you! Originally there was more to that section. I like the discipline of drabbling. It forces me to pick what's really essential over what only seems so.

[info]maybedarkpink

January 26 2004, 17:37:57 UTC 8 years ago

Oh my. That is just... Guh. Beautfiul and heartbreaking. Poor Wesley. Poor Angel. Poor Connor. They could have made such a happy family...

[info]romanyg

January 27 2004, 01:11:49 UTC 8 years ago

Yes, it broke my heart just watching the tragedy of AtS 3 unfold. ::sniffs::

[info]sunka2

January 26 2004, 22:52:12 UTC 8 years ago

What nice writing. I got non-scarry goosebumps.

Loved it.

[info]romanyg

January 27 2004, 01:13:51 UTC 8 years ago

Thanks, Sunka!

I got non-scarry goosebumps.

LOL! Are you trying to be punny?

[info]bookishwench

January 27 2004, 01:47:16 UTC 8 years ago

Oh my. I love the imagery in this. Hope as a blossom of glass... that's absolutely perfect.

[info]romanyg

January 27 2004, 08:18:24 UTC 8 years ago

Thank you! The hope image is the first one that came to me, and I worked up from there.

[info]kindkit

January 27 2004, 02:34:54 UTC 8 years ago

Very nice. I especially love what you do with the metaphor in the last line.

[info]romanyg

January 27 2004, 08:20:27 UTC 8 years ago

Thank you! The metaphor seemed appropriate for Wes's pain.

[info]appomattoxco

January 27 2004, 14:10:49 UTC 8 years ago

BEAUTIFUL I didn't mean to have the caps lock on but it's worth shouting over anyway. Nice job.

[info]romanyg

January 28 2004, 07:18:35 UTC 8 years ago

Shouting's permissible. *g* Thank you!

[info]leni_ba

January 27 2004, 14:19:54 UTC 8 years ago

Beautiful imagery plus the weigth of what is to come...it almost makes me cry.

[info]romanyg

January 28 2004, 07:20:15 UTC 8 years ago

Thank you, Leni! Watching Wes try so hard to do what was best did make me cry. This scene in "Loyalty" broke my heart.

[info]dodyskin

July 5 2005, 16:56:16 UTC 6 years ago

...

glorious

[info]romanyg

July 12 2005, 23:15:00 UTC 6 years ago

Hey, you did click through! I was worried about giving you a bad link. I do that sometimes. *hangs head*

Thanks!

[info]dodyskin

6 years ago

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[info]romanyg

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[info]alizarin_nyc

April 3 2006, 09:18:12 UTC 6 years ago

[info]viciouswishes rec'ed this and I'm idly surfing LJ here at 5am waiting for sleep and watching anime on the Cartoon Network.

This is gorgeous. I have been thinking lately that I'm not interested in drabbles. I'm all, "what can they DO for me?" But this has changed my mind. It's *doing* it for me. It's moving and lovely.

[info]romanyg

April 6 2006, 22:39:36 UTC 6 years ago

Wow, thank you! I seem to remember a Lost fic of yours. That was a drabble series, yes? My memory has been wonky lately.

I miss drabbling. *sigh* But I'm happy to hear from you! Yay!

[info]alizarin_nyc

6 years ago

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[info]romanyg

6 years ago

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[info]auroramama

July 31 2006, 23:15:32 UTC 5 years ago

That's incredible. Got here from your 17 things post. Yes, of course it's a poem.

[info]romanyg

August 7 2006, 23:33:44 UTC 5 years ago

Oh thank you. Out of all the drabbles that I've written, this is one of my favorites. I don't self-pimp much but when I do, it's this one.

[info]lettered

October 4 2006, 23:02:55 UTC 5 years ago

God, that just--just--hurts. A lot. The rhythm is perfect, and I'll never forget:

Love is a bottle of milk on the stove.

That just--that's some good stuff right there.

*loves on you*

*lots*

[info]romanyg

October 5 2006, 16:32:16 UTC 5 years ago

Wow. Thanks for coming by and reading this! That scene from "Loyalty" where Wes and Angel are discussing love and Wes is so close to cracking with the decision he's about to make, and the whole while Angel is heating up a bottle for Connor? Kills me *so* dead. I cannot get through that scene without crying.
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