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October 31, 2003
When she took his hand and led him into her bedroom, it was like the culmination of everything that was good in her life, all her dreams coming true at once. She felt no regret, no worries, no reluctance, no anxiety. He stood next to her as she lit the candles on the dresser, and when she turned to him, he cupped her face in his hands, and kissed her as if he had all the time in the world. She felt as if she was falling into him, into a space and time that had no boundaries and no end. The world began and ended in that room with the flickering candlelight and the lace curtains blowing in the soft breeze that came off the water. If she had looked up, she would have seen the full moon outside her window, but she didn’t. She looked only into his face, her eyes wide open. That beautiful face that had visited her in her dreams for so long, but that she had almost forgotten. Now that he was here with her again, it seemed impossible that he had ever been gone. She thought briefly of James, once, not with sadness, but with a fondness for something that she had lost a long time ago. He slipped her blouse off her shoulders and bent to kiss her throat. She gasped. It had been so long since someone had touched her with love, with reverance. And it was like that, a sacred thing, a prayer. She wrapped her arms around him and gave herself completely to the feel of him, to the sensation of being well and thoroughly loved. Strangely, the wings didn’t get in the way at all. [ posted by Willa @ 10:32 ] [ link me ] (0) comments ----- October 30, 2003With NaNoWriMo starting, many people are going to be frantic for everything from names to story ideas for their work. Here are a number of links that might help people during the NaNo madness -- and they might even be helpful at other, less stressful times! [ posted by Willa @ 17:37 ] [ link me ] ----- October 23, 2003A "fan comic" of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens:" STUDIO FOGLIO- Good Omens [ posted by Willa @ 15:30 ] [ link me ] ----- The Nine Orders of Angels [ posted by Willa @ 11:48 ] [ link me ] ----- Wings of Desire / Wim Wenders - The Official Site [ posted by Willa @ 11:08 ] [ link me ] ----- Angel Wing: "Angel Wing (Cyrtopleura costata) (up to about 7 in.) Angel wings are found along the East Coast from Massachusetts southward. A bivalve with a fragile, white shell covered with a thin, yellow-tinted periostracum, the angel wing burrows in sand or mud up to two feet deep and feeds on algae through a siphon. The angel wing has no ligaments to keep the shell closed: because it rocks itself into a tight-fitting burrow, the adductor muscles are enough to see that the shell remains closed." [ posted by Willa @ 11:06 ] [ link me ] ----- October 21, 2003
If she'd chosen another route home that day, things might have worked out differently for us, for her.
Colin Greenland, "Wings." Starlight 3, Patrick Neilsen Hayden, ed. [ posted by Willa @ 13:58 ] [ link me ] ----- October 20, 2003Interesting story about getting a huge tattoo of a koi--suddenly made me think that if I were to ever get a tattoo, a koi, albeit a tiny one, might be cool. A Koi On Keith Alexander [ posted by Willa @ 22:12 ] [ link me ] ----- October 15, 2003I redesigned this site in preparation for writing another installment during NaNoWriMo next month. Actually, I'm still not totally committed to doing it--I have an idea, but I'm not sure if it's a good one or not, and I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to be able to spend enough time on it during the month to write 50,000 words. I guess I should try it anyway, and give myself permission to fail, if in fact that happens, but I hate to go into it without any more confidence than that. I guess I'll think about it for the next two weeks, and hopefully make some notes, and then I'll decide. [ posted by Willa @ 14:37 ] [ link me ] ----- October 13, 2003Pioneer woman with cell phone has a really nice, well thought out weblog entry or two about the process of writing, and how we tend to sabotage ourselves. She's started a Yahoo! Group to work through Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, which sounds like a wonderful idea, and I'd love to do it, but I've got too many other things going on to commit to it. I should probably work through the book again myself, anyway--maybe after the first of the year. [ posted by Willa @ 11:34 ] [ link me ] ----- |
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