April 2011 SEVENTY-FIVE WORD CHALLENGE -- A Major Victory for Ursa!

[Teresa Edgerton]

THE EXILE​

There is a tower outside our world, on a barren plain, under an empty sky. And there, she … exists. Ageless, she never counts the slow years passing; remembering no time before, she never feels her own heart breaking.

Until:

Pure notes of music shatter her isolation. The harpist is small, bent, unheroic, as ugly as a bear. No matter. Something moves within her heart, as — tremulous — ecstatic — she runs down the stairs to meet him.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Two Sides to Every Tale[/FONT]



[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Had Prince Rom lived, he would tell [/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]how the P'Taxian delegate's golden-furred beauty stole his heart; [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]how her trilling song under twin moons set his soul afire; [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]how he pledged devotion unto death.[/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]He would tell how his spirit shattered when he found her body, [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]and, bereft, he fell upon his dagger and joined her.[/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The P'Taxian, J'Le"eTT, would say that P'Taxians hibernate annually, [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]and also that Earth men speak much k'flop and listen never.[/FONT]

 

[onebigpotato]

Unfashionable innocence.

The wind reminds me of her
perfume, because she never wears any.
The grass reminds me of her skin, because it’s forever between her toes.
The green echoes her dresses, the flowing water her hair.
Though I know I risk this love by growing up, I won’t forget.
Even if I earn your disdain, I won’t forget.
I won’t forget.
No.
I believe in fairies.
I call myself lucky, that she believes in me too.

 

[Heck Tate]

Vivimancer

Aziz had been exiled from the Halls of the Dead for practicing the art most despised among the unliving. The monotony of the afterlife had driven him to blur the lines between life and death, only to see his wife for a moment. The dead had cast him out, but kept his beloved, Eda, so his new life was worse than his death. He would give her life, and they would reunite. He vowed it.

 

[Tonk Rivers]

A Paramour Supreme or The Seven Year Scratch

Anne lay on her deathbed and watched her husband’s ghost put down his spritely quill.

“What are you writing my love?”

Will looked up and smiled. He had written of the Seven Ages of Man, but it was this eighth age in which he had composed his greatest work.

“Can I read it?” she asked through labored breath.

“Soon my love,” he whispered. “You and I are not yet past our dancing days.”

 

[goldenapples]

A young woman was tending her beloved garden when a raven swooped and warned her not to go near the cliff edge.

She thought she heard a child’s cry and ran, ripping her dress on thorns.

But instead she found a man clinging to the cliff and reaching out. She held his hand.

He bit her neck and she fell.

A handsome beachcomber, seeing her body in the swelling tide, revived her with a kiss.

 

[MstrTal]

[FONT=&quot]Free At Last[/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]Pa[/FONT][FONT=&quot]tiently her lover waits beyond silvered full length glass. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Long she has craved this day. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Her obligations finally tended.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Once Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great-grandmother, Owner of slaves and Lady of the House.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In drafty attic apartment as forgotten as the plantations she gazes upon the glass.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The knife bites deep into withered wrists.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Her crimson palm trembling upon the cool glass. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Her soul leaps free into the arms of her young mulatto love at last.[/FONT]​

 

[Precise Calibre]

Cosmos



She stood in the doorway, her perfect, lithe form framed against moonlight. She had shown me much of her world, but her ebon, star-etched flesh spoke of much more. The secrets of galaxies danced in her eyes.




“Come with me,” she purred.


I looked upon my world; the stone city, the bustle of humanity.


My friends.


My family.


I might never return.




Swallowing hard, I grasped her hand and stepped into the stars...

 

[Culhwch]

Beastly

She fled but he sniffed her out, tearing through her quiet village and the people she loved until he found her.

‘Why did you leave me?’ he snarled.

Her voice quavered. ‘You’re a monster.’

‘I’ve changed.’

‘I thought so, once, but it isn’t true.’ She looked upon his handsome face, now twisted with rage. ‘You are more beast now than ever.’

He shrugged, snatching her wrist. ‘And you are mine – happily ever after … or otherwise.’

 

[slack]

Capgras

They didn't know anything. But it was dangerous speech, and what bothered John most was that Allison, his wife of 26 years, had started to believe, and began wearing that damn neuromodulator religiously.

He assured himself that it would pass, run its course and be gone forever. But every time he restrained her and endured her frantic thrashings and insistence that he was an imposter, he fought with the urge to simply let go.

 

[cornelius]

The Princess' choice.

He put his axe aside.
“Another hero. Fallen. He called me a monster, and this your prison.” Her silent tears worried him. “He was a good man, fair and strong. I understand why you mourn for him.”
She placed her hands on the pattern of rough reptilian scales which, for her, were the true outlines of beauty.
“My tears are not for your deeds, but for your doubts.”
With a kiss, she voiced her love.

 

[crys]

Spider Woman​

I had grown weary on my perilous journey when I noticed wisps of smoke from a nearby adit. I approached, but hesitated on the threshold; beyond was darkness and the veil of the unknown.

A voice beckoned from within and, like the Twin War Gods of the Navaho, I encountered a mysterious woman. However this was no decrepit ancient but a supernatural bride, her head festooned with flowers.

‘Welcome’, she smiled, ‘I’ve been expecting you.’

 

[chrispenycate]

Rubaiyat in a Djinn bottle

A lifetime’s searching, triple wishes found
From crusted bottle deep in ocean drowned.
Materialising djinnah, radiant.
Her muscular, wild beauty now unbound.

My aspiration? Doth contract allow
Eternal healthy youth, riches, and thou?
Forgo prosperity, should thou accept.
Tak’st thou this passion I avow ?

Regard me, analyse the paradigme
The bottle now sinks , back into the slime
My youthened hormones boiling through my blood
With “ever after” future dark sublime.

 

[Moonbat]

Her Shoe

I saw a red shoe by the roadside and wondered, ‘To whom does it belong?’
I discovered someone had died there. Her body was found half way down the embankment, in a bush, battered, broken, like the shoe.
The next day I saw it too.
And the next.
Eventually I stopped for it.

Not safe on that blind bend.

She was still there, missing a shoe.
I carried it to her.
She cried.
We danced.

 

[nixie]

Sweetheart's Cove
​

Nancy watched daily for William's ship to come home. Although their love was forbidden, they had vowed to be together forever in life or death.

A passer-by saw her walking into the sea towards a smiling sailor. Called for her too come back.

Ignoring the call she took the sailor's hand and faded away. Never to be seen again.

The following day news arrived. William's ship had floundered all hands lost.

 

[Heoru]

The Dedicated Man

A figure stepped threw the pubs old doors

“Raise your glasses my drinking companions,
For I have returned from hell.

It was a grand expedition which goal was to save my lost love. Who was dragged to her peril by fiendish devils. To pay favor to Satan himself. Thou her eyes were never on me, I fought my way down the eternal pit. The time is short, so Better be returning to my brides side.

 

[Parson]

The Text of Love


I love you.
She waited. Her sighs were deep. Her hope profound.

>>Ping!<<
I love you more.

The message of her dreams.
Thumbs flying.
You’re everything I dreamed of in a man.

>>Ping!<<
My heart longs to bond with you.

The moment of truth had arrived.
His people pair bonded for life.
Her friends called it slavery.
He called it a covenant of the heart.
She followed her heart.

Beam me up. I’m yours forever.
​

 

[Chel]

Love is Blind

She never let me touch her before our marriage, but she touched me, body and heart. Soft hands, soft voice promising my sight back.

Afterwards, I couldn't bring myself to look at the hag's wilted features and grey wisps of hair. Disgust mingled with my love, hers; still strong and true. But my wows were sacred, so I put my eyes out never to have to see her again. Only feel and hear and love.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

Two by Two.

As we said goodbye that day in the hospital; we hugged and cried and in your arms I passed.

“You are still young,” I said, “You must find a new love and be happy again.”

Foolish words, soon regretted. You were my soul mate. Only with you can we enter heaven; together. You could find another and be redeemed, I cannot.

So I await my fate, trusting in your love; desperately hoping you remain true.

 

[RoninJedi84]

Reunion


Gregory stares upward as silvery moonlight dances across Brianna's translucent skin. She kisses him passionately, grasping his hands as if she never will again. He doesn't stop her, ignoring the voice in the back of his mind. His Brianna has come again to be with him.

She whispers she must go, removing the pendant he had given her before...

He begs her not to leave, afraid to be alone again, wishing he will never wake...