Flash Challenge at fantas_magoria

[mistletoe]

Challenge #5 Drabbles using a line from Emily Dickinson's many. many poems.

Title: The Road Not Taken (with apologies to Robert Frost)

Rating: PG

Character: Owen

Author: mistletoe54

A/N: OK not a Dickinson fan here, so I’m afraid it’s just 2 random lines from ED that spoke to me, a little.

He was enamoured of Emily, maybe of Buffy too. They both offered the thrill he sought in different ways. From Emily he gained his romanticised love of the unknown: death. Dying is a wild night, and a new road. This rang true. His road was so old.

In Buffy he saw a way to the new road; wild nights were how she lived: not in the Bronze, but in the haunts of the dead. Why did she not want him when she left with her friends?

They may not need me, but they might. He followed her on the road.

 

Title: Not Wanted On Journey

Rating: PG

Character Angel

Author: mistletoe54

A/N: Just the last line in italics is Emily’s.

Angel was annoyed. This boy was whom Buffy wanted to be with, neglecting her duty? Now! This boy with his eager puppy look and irritating desire to interfere with things he could not understand. Why would Buffy not listen to him? It was frustrating, and awkward when the boy asked how he knew her. “Work.” True, except he didn’t work with her. Her friends hurried in, wasting more time. Then she left him behind. Both of them. The ugly truth sank in. They were irrelevant, surplus to her calling.

He looked at Owen and thought, I’m nobody, who are you?

Comments

[librarian2003.livejournal.com]

Two very nice drabbles! It's amazing what you can get from ED, even without liking her, isn't it? Glad you persisted!

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm afraid she isn't to my taste. I read about her life on Wikipedia and in a Cordy-like way I thought 'obsessed much?' Angel might have liked her, she could have been a nun.

Of course, if she'd had to work for a living things may have looked more optimistic.

I spent two hours looking at her poetry and got thoroughly depressed.

Thanks for your comment. *beams*

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Oh, Own - he doesn't have a clue. And I like the bitterness of the second.

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

Yes Angel's starting to obsess, always a bad thing. And he's got the low self esteem down already.

Thank you.

[ellan-vannin.livejournal.com]

He looked at Owen and thought, I’m nobody, who are you?

Clever! Literal use of the prompt without having to be "literary" about Dickinson. Not being a fan of hers myself, I'm impressed!

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

*confession* I read about 50 of her poems, one after the other and I couldn't find anything to get my teeth into so it was literal or nothing. I really wanted to have a go at the Challenge so took the line of least resistance.

I so admire the people who have come up with remarkable responses - yourself included.

[ares132006.livejournal.com]

Having never read Emily Dickinson, I'm getting a wonderful education. (Heathen, I hear you say? ) ;0)

I must say that I am liking what I see.

I'm nobody, who are you?

Poor Angel. He and Owen have more in common than he thinks.

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't rate her: provincial and pedestrian - superior British tone pokes through from me there. Still some people have made superb use of her more significant/morbid ideas.

Heathen, I hear you say?
*giggle* She would probably faint in a ladylike fashion at the mention of heathen. I'd tell her to get over it already. Very strange woman.

Thank you for reading.

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

These two make a god pair - the drabbles I mean *g* Contrasting Angel's and Owen's attitudes highlights their differences, but the final line of the second brings them into shocking similarity. Hee, so maybe I wasn't meaning only the drabbles.

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

How kind of you to spot that!

Thanks for your fb.