OMG, thank you THANK YOU for this - you just pile one treat on top of another -
This is EPIC!
You are brilliant. I only wish everyone else had read the source material you've read, the myths, the legends, the actual HISTORY behind these images.
I'm stammering like an emu regurgitating a snake - I'm that speechless!!!!
#SNAKES (I love snakes) - and the visual (emerging from Luke's beak) omg, it's marvelous-
#CROWS you know how I love crows (and the dread they can inspire; the Onion's epic crow, that "harbinger of doom")
#BUTCH omg CASSIDY omg the blond hero silhouetted at the door, the sun illuminating him and the crows, the multitudes of crows - and then, miraculously, the message of brotherly love, which, if Kennelly is to be believed, perfectly captures the sunny, lovable and humane spirit of the immortal Butch...
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I spent a LOT of time dreaming up this story, and very little time actually writing it, so it's pretty much a freewrite. And as all freewrites do, it has stuff in it that surprises even me.
I wanted to take out GMYL and use some of her words, make Butch speak the way she had him speak, but it's packed at the bottom of a box of books (I'm packing) so I had to wing it. Silhouette is a word I was grasping for and couldn't find, so I'm super glad you saw it that way.
I published this story less than 15 minutes before payout of the contest post. Super rushed it! It came out OK though, like a parable. I wonder if most stories, cut down to only their bones, would read like parables.
thanks for the great comment!