Title: Gaze No More in that Bitter Glass*
Genre: chicken soup
Series: original
Comments: Written for creative writing class. We were supposed to do incorporate four things: something inspired by real life; setting as character; biased narrator; and...ummm...I forget the fourth one. I decided to screw doing something inspired by real life, unless putting the story in a WWI setting counts as inspired by real life. I did somewhat incorporate setting as character and the biased narrator, though. And who knows, I may even have somehow miraculously incorporated the forgotten fourth component.

ANYWAY. This story uses my beloved Mort, first written in my one and thus far only NaNoWriMo attempt which has yet to see the light of any computer screen but my own, and then written into my piece "Coming to Terms" which, while it will be published in Sequel, has yet to be posted here. (Stupid me doesn't have the nice, edited copy on my computer. Need to get nice edited copy and put it on my computer so I can put it here). Technically he's the personification/whatnot of death, but he likes to play guidance counselor, so in here he's just playing guidance counselor. I really really like this story. I may hate in the morning, but right now I am incredibly fond of it, because I love Mort with a burning passion. He's my favorite original character ever. And I got to play loads and LOADS with my Bible for this story, and I implicitly set it in Prince Edward's Island during WWI, because I have been reading faaaaar too much of L.M. Montgomery. Rilla of Ingleside is what inspired this piece, actually. I owe it all to that book. And Loreena McKennitt's song adaptation of Yeats' "The Two Trees," from which I got the title.

I should stop rambling about it and just post the story, shouldn't I? Sorry. I just finished writing it and am SO INCREDIBLY HAPPY WITH IT. It needs editing, yes, but it was SUCH FUN to write once I got two things of caffeine in my system. Mmmmm, caffeine.....


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