Posted on 06/30/2004 10:19:24 AM PDT by jj_fate
"No sympathy from me. Our eggs came from what our chickens decided...two three eight or twelve."
We might have gotten chickens, if we could have afforded the feed. I didn't know we were poor until I married my sailor. He came from a small town in So Dak, but he was "wealthy" by the standards in my family. Like I said: It was a "step-up."
There were just too many of us. I often was very hungry.
There's a legend like that. A traveler is attacked in the woods by a
wolf & cuts off it's paw. He places it in a pouch & continues. When
he reaches the shelter of some nobleman, he tells his story & tries
to show him the paw, but when he pulls it out, it's a dainty, feminine
hand with a wedding band on it. The nobleman recognizes the hand
& rushes upstairs to find his wife bandaging her wound. She confesses
to being a werewolf & is burned at the stake. It was on the history
channel during the days close to Halloween, think that was a french legend.
I actually prefer vampires to werewolves.
Vampires are always the cool monsters.
I've never thought of my short stories as horror
stories, but others find them creepy... *shrugs*
I based it on a medieval legend--not the exact same one you describe, but similar. Apparently there were several versions of the same story.
Here's a short vampire one I wrote on the spur of the moment.
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"Dracula's Surprise"
Dracula arose from his coffin and stepped into the darkness. To his pleasant
surprise, the pitch-black sky was the darkest even his long memory could recall.
He spread his bat-wings, relishing the thought of the hunt before him.
Suddenly the Sun passed out of its shadow and incinerated him.
In the senility of his 600-year-old mind, he had forgotten that today was the
day of the solar eclipse.
"This is a thread about nothing anyway.
If you're lucky someone on this thread may later even pretend they care for you. LOL"
Two things, Butthead:
1) If this thread is "about nothing anyway" why are you here?
2) "If you're lucky someone on this thread may later even pretend they care for you. LOL" You are assuming that I am a) looking, b) have an interest in your brand of "connecting."
If you are suggesting that no one would have me, it is just the opposite: I have no interest in idiots and, you, "sir" are about the most boring individual I have ever had the bad luck to come across.
I have kicked better men than you out of my bed.
You are delusional, rude (as I have said before) and also the worlds' biggest sphincter muscle. Not to mention you are narcissistic beyond comprehension. Perhaps your mother would be a better match for you?
Oh gee, your not now going to detail each of these various better men you've been kicking out of bed, are you?
"Oh gee, your not now going to detail each of these various better men you've been kicking out of bed, are you?"
You really should learn to use Spell Check.
*giggle*
That's actually a bit funny. I've
never written a vampire story...
but I did write a vampire poem...
simply called "I, The Vampire".
As I wandered through the night,
wishing to be seen by the daylight,
my heart beheld a familiar song
I used to sing when I was young.
I recalled the life I knew before,
thinking back three centuries, maybe more.
My memory was clouded,
my past shrouded.
I was a forgotten mystery.
Forever I’ve wandered through history,
always beholding the moonlight,
never again to see sunlight.
I had been a youth misled,
now I forever walk amongst the undead.
I, the Vampire.
At this time of night, I'm happy enough to even be hitting keys.
It was meant to be funny, in a Dunsany-esque way :)
Cool poem! What inspired the title? It reminds me of something, but I can't put my finger on what.
Good poem!
"At this time of night, I'm happy enough to even be hitting keys."
Then perhaps you should quit while you are "ahead."
Well, the title was inspired by the last line. The poem itself was
inspired by my having recently watched "Interview With A Vampire".
Thanks.
That's the only poem I've written quite like that.
I've written others that speak of wishing to be
in the light, but they are open to interpretation.
That's my only true vampire poem.
"The poem itself was
inspired by my having recently watched "Interview With A Vampire"."
I tried to read that, but after 100 pages, I gave up. It was too slow.
Your poetry, however, is quite good.
Dang it! I leave for a few hours and the thread flies past 40K!
I pretty much am.
To be totally honest and NOT joking with you here, I am very upset reading on another thread that the leaders in Iraq are fleeing the fight again and are NOT being stopped by anyone.
This means the leaders (like a cancer) will go to the next city, get the fanatic stupid people all going to again fight.
So why are we not circling this battle and filtering whose leaving this battle?
Why allow the enemy leave to fight another day.
I really want the least harm for our military and this plan of letting people leave is going to cause people to die over and over.
It's like a time-out to reload. I don't get why we are letting bad guy leaders leave.
This kid of stuff gets me upset for our fine troops.
That's why I watched it. I have the book "Lestat", but quit
reading it... like you said it was too slow. Well, you've just
become part of a short list of people who actually like my
sssstuff. I've been told to give up 'cause it'll never take me
anywhere... & so far it hasn't. That fact is quite depressing..
since those against my "work" have so far been proved right.
I've written since I was 16 & have met more who like my
"work" than not, but those who don't approve are usually
the ones who should be encouraging me (ie my school again).
"Hey it's a free thread."
Actually, it's not. Jim Robinson is paying for it with contributions from the rest of us. I'm sure no one is paying to sit and listen to you and Monkey Face exchange insults, which is why I have just hit the abuse button and pinged the RKBA. If you can't find anything constructive to say to each other, the simple solution is to stop talking to each other and let the rest of us enjoy the thread.
RKBA = Rightful King of Bank of America?
"To be totally honest and NOT joking with you here, I am very upset reading on another thread that the leaders in Iraq are fleeing the fight again and are NOT being stopped by anyone.
This means the leaders (like a cancer) will go to the next city, get the fanatic stupid people all going to again fight.
So why are we not circling this battle and filtering whose leaving this battle?
Why allow the enemy leave to fight another day.
I really want the least harm for our military and this plan of letting people leave is going to cause people to die over and over.
It's like a time-out to reload. I don't get why we are letting bad guy leaders leave.
This kid of stuff gets me upset for our fine troops."
Have you ever been in the military? Even as "weekend warrior"?
If you had, you would realize that "I really want the least harm for our military and this plan of letting people leave is going to cause people to die over and over." is NOT how war is fought.
"It is better that one man die than that a nation should perish in iniquity"
Someone has to fight for YOUR right to to be a jerk on FR. It is obviously not you.
War is nasty, but it is how we remain free.
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