homeric gift snippet

For the wonderful thamiris who asked for this:
can I have Homeric style with Achilles and Patroclus? And no adverbs at all, just to see what happens?

( Rose-tinted dawn. )

future ficlettino gift

For the lovely phineasjones who asked for this:
how about ronon/zelenka? as for style... future tense.
thamiris's request for Homeric style spilled over into this snippet as well. :-)

( 'Wise Radek of the nimble mind,' will speak Ronon, the fast-fisted. )

withdrawal weather

I am having withdrawal symptoms of rl listsib encounter. Also, the weather is grey. Yesterday droplets sprinkled nose, hair and shoulders. Everything smelled fresh and wet. Today, I sit indoors and contemplate the glistening concrete and white-reflectant blades of grass. The sky is a uniform white.

Homer is difficult to imitate because he uses no focalisor, no subjective point of view. This is counter-intuitive for the modern mind, attuned to the subjectivities and crawlings-into-heads of the novel. This was an interesting insight.