RE: The Terrible Turn, a freewrite

[carolkean]

Edgar! Elsie!!!
I've been thinking of them as I chop buckthorn and honeysuckle from the woodland understory.
Seriously. I have. And today, YAY, yay!, YAY, here is a return.
It seems to me I kinda/sorta remember a story where they both died.
I hope I dreamed that one.
LOVE the way Elsie's dream is so vivid, so real, she gets mad at Edgar (or disgusted) - and wish I didn't know that syndrome all too well. To this day, I cannot get past the dream (shortly after our marriage) in which I caught Tim cheating on me... the whole dream is so vivid (full color! I can still smell the cigar!) ...
Good to see you back @owasco - and you remind me, I'm way past due to return to the land of the living.

Comments

[carolkean]

Oh my. MEMORY LOSS. In a we-write (you posted the link, Sunflowers are for Sissies), I wrote the demise of ... after you wrote the demise of...
---- Now all I can think about is those gorgeous rugs - your photos - do people really step on such works of art! (Because I am trying NOT to think of the end of Edgar and Elsie.)

Edgar. Edgar! He was dead now, and it was not all right. It was no consolation that he lived on in the minds and hearts of these people making pilgrimages to his beautiful house on the sea cliffs of Northampton--their house, hers as well as his--bringing their sunflower tributes and tripping over the rugs.

But, but, you revived Edgar and Elsie after that we-write, and let them live on in other stories, right?

(How can my memory be so full of gaping holes!)

Fictional characters feel so real sometimes - especially these two. BRAVO! More more more!

[owasco]

I forgot that I killed off Edgar! I killed off Elsie on the steps of a courthouse. She'd held a sign lefties didn't like and they murdered her. My goodness I have a macabre mind when I freewrite!

[carolkean]

WE LOVE IT!
Macabre mind, Fiction -
I love the Whedon Brothers and the Cohen brothers for their black humor in TV shows.
The beauty of fiction - you can claim "parallel universe" or whatever and revive the characters you bumped off. :)
Your imagination is a wonderful place for others to visit - thanks for opening the portal and letting us in!

[owasco]

I'm enrolled in a homeopathy academy (think of you all the time! your name appears in my note margins whenever she tells us of ailments like yours) and just before I wrote this she told us of an ailment that strikes a lot of women during menopause, where they suddenly cannot stand their husbands! IT'S CURABLE! Homeopaths consider the emotional/psychological aspect of humans to be very important in all disease, if not a major source of disease.

Please do return to us. I miss you!