DISCUSSION -- October 2014 75 Word Challenge

Mine was indeed a spin on the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but what nobody who mentioned it seemed to realize-or if they had, they didn't say, and I suspect this was the actual case as opposed to ignorance-was that the creature hunting the main character was not the Hessian from the 19th century story. It was instead a dullahan, and I figured, it wouldn't be deterred by the Bridge of Souls, being an immortal creature of the Unseelie faery court, not some simple, tortured spirit of a mortal man.
 
I have no idea where mine came from. It's not even the kind of story I like to read -- before someone slaps me, I mean that it's not the sort of thing I pick up for my reading pleasure -- but there it was, so I wrote it down. The title is from a line in Hamlet:

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.
 
Congratulations, Hex! Excellent victory, in an exceptionally close race. And we're all winners, as Hex will have a new contest ready to go in just 3 days! Ahhh, how wonderful! :)

As for the creation of my own story--I've been particularly upset lately by just how many bad things are happening in the world right now..they seem, if possible, more numerous than normal, and more odious in nature. This little tale of innocence and hope was the result. And I've been trying to write the 75 worders as flash fiction, just to force the creative juices to flow..I give myself an hour to find a concept, and write the story, and then a little while more to edit down to 75 words. :)
 
Congrats, Hex. And thanks to Johnnyjet and Phyrebrat for the mentions.
 
congratulatons hex! yay for hex! woot woot woot!
thankyou for the votes darkchrome and jotan... i was astonished.. had me thinking i really must have busted the space time continuum. was looking for strange blue boxes popping up for a while there..
thankyou ever so for the mentions, telford and cats cradle ... very happy!

dark chrome i wenrt and listened to nick cave after you mentioned him. very nice blues singer, him.

my inspiration as it were came while i was watching the movie, divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood. at the finish during the end credits,there is a nice little piece of zedeco music playing and it had the line in it "i lost my sweetheart to the boatmans dance"
i thought, since it was zedeco it should have been his cherie he lost, instead of his sweetheart.
then the song frankie and johnnie by elvis played on the radio.
so i was thinking about how some of the riverboats caught fire, (some say they were torched by federal marshals, some say the mafia was doing it. and they just let the ship burn, out there on the river. it took days for the fire to burn out.
anyways was thinking about how it would have been to have that ship burning bright with the flames out on the water and the fog at night..

so i wrote a story about two ghosts. the one haunting the riverbanks that can never cross, and one that is unrepentant.

and phyrebrat, for shame , you don't burn witches, you throw water on them and melt them..
:)
 
Wow. Thank you!

Thanks very much, Aber, for the vote! And thank you, Teresa, for the mention.

And now to come up with something fiendish for November... Hmm...

@jastius -- Ah! I thought your title was a reference to the Nick Cave album The Boatman's Call.
 
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I've just noticed a stealth vote from KerryBuchanan. So a BIG thank you to you for that.

Congratulations Hex.
Yes. Fiendish for November sounds good.
 
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We'll done, Hex. Congratulations! :D

It was 3 days after posting mine, that I re-read it and realized it was so vague. I was kicking myself, feeling like a sausage bought from the silly counter. . . Anyway, it was meant to show that this horrible orchestra-conductor-ghost-type-bloke was torturing a single live man on a theater's stage, trying to extract the sounds from the various instrumental groups... But I kind of messed up the descriptions... I wish I had some patience like many of our residents.

But lovely fact, for those into a good factoid - the didgeridoo is not woodwind as I stated, it actually counts as brass! (y)
 
Teresa Edgerton said:
The title is from a line in Hamlet
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Speaking of titles....

My punchline was originally the title I was going to use (with no idea of what might follow). When it became the punchline, I had to come up with a new title and, inevitably, came up with some iffy puns (which, fortunately for all of us including me, I can't recall). But given that the story is about a demon and her offspring, who all can drink blood (or, in this case, ichor), I thought about real vampires; specifically vampire bats. They don't suck blood, but instead pierce the skin and lap up the blood that flows out.

So 'Lap of the Gods' is what those little devils intend to do....
 
Congrats, Hex. A thoroughly well-deserved win, with a cracking story!

Thanks for the mention, Teresa. I'm astonished how many I got this month.

Teresa Edgerton said:
The title is from a line in Hamlet:

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.
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Oh, bother! Unlike TDZ, I recognised it as a quote but couldn't place it. I shall have to brush up my Shakespeare and start reading him now... (Bonus points for anyone getting that slight mis-quote!)
 
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