And now for something completely different (I just made that up, right? 😉 )
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You’re Only Someone That I Used To Love
“It’s like this.”
“Exactly like this.”
“He left his tripod.”
“We don’t know where he went.”
“His camera’s there. But not the memory card.”
“We know nothing.”
“But he was your friend?”
“Uh, no. An acquaintance.”
“On our mother’s side.”
“A distant one.”
“And he was photographing?”
“The mountains?”
“A bird?”
“The last butterfly.”
“So, none of you know why he was here?”
“He hated.”
“He was in love.”
“He wanted a picture of a monarch.”
“Who are you ladies, again?”
“I’m no one.”
“I’m his best friend.”
“I was someone else.”
“Who else were you?”
—
“Someone he loved.”
end 3/15/2018
Sascha Darlington
Awe sad one.
Thanks, Mandi! Have you come up with anything for Midsummer yet?
Oh gosh no. I even wrote an article for a freelance project comparing aspects of MidSummer and Much Ado. So, I’ve even reread it everything, but no ideas. You? Btw work and a course I’m taking with an assignment every day, its been tough to keep up. What makes Midsummers so hard is the lack of main character. Puck is sort of the main character in the play, but really it’s a montage of three or four different stories overlapping, and there is meaning there. But what might work best is to take one story, day about the 4 lovers, or to make a more complex story btw Oberon and His Queen Titania, then again, parts of these stories are very reliant on each other
My thoughts so far, I don’t know when these are due even?
Anne said at the end of March. I haven’t reread yet although I had an idea from what I remembered. Of course, the idea hasn’t quite worked itself into words. Procrastination is my first name….not even my middle. 🙂
You sound so busy!
Lol.
Yeah, I want to but we’ll see how it goes. I can relate to the procrastination 🙂
That title is a stroke of genius
Thank you, Neil. I have a head full of song titles that make excellent flash titles. (My head is otherwise empty…..hahaha) 🙂
And the genius continues into the tangled yet balanced dialogue, Sascha. A lovely read.
Thank you so much, Kelvin. I very much appreciate your comment! 🙂
They seem guilty to me… 🙂 Nice dialogue.
They do a bit, don’t they. Thank you, Iain! 🙂
He left his tripod (and camera? I couldn’t quite follow that) so he’ll be back. Kind of like the guy in “Gentle on My Mind.” Not that I’m a fan of guys like this. Just saying…
Me neither. Unless you like a lot of alone time. 🙂 You know, to get your writing done. hehe
What a wonderfully whimsical piece.
Thank you so much! 🙂
Ah so true – once love is tainted then life disappears.
You have such a way with words, James. Even in comments!
Thanks so much!
The relationship sounds complicated, and multi-layered. Great title.
Thank you so much, Sandra! 🙂
Loved this all ’round, Sascha! Great dialogue.
Thank you, Dale! 🙂
Your story is wistful, and hides itself behind half-truths. Like Neil, I admire the title.
Thank you so much, Penny! 🙂
Dear Sascha,
I loved, he left the camera but not the memory card. Sad but well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you so much, Rochelle! 🙂
he left his tripod and camera? perhaps he heeded the call of nature. i’m sure he’d be back. 🙂
You never know! 🙂
Sounds like a love triangle going on there. Nicely done.
Thank you!
Those ladies sound awfully suspicious.
More than a little, right? Thank you, Alice!
I’m a bit suspicious of those ladies too. They’re throwing out a lot of answers very quickly and eagerly 🙂 Nice dialogue!
Yes, they are. Thank you! 🙂
I love the structure of this, the snatches of a person and their life we learn from disconnected sentences. Their disappearance is a confusing jumble and you’ve conveyed that so well. Great mystery Sascha
Thank you, Lynn. It was fun to try that with dialogue. 🙂
My pleasure
Lovely mysterious story, great dialogue.
Thank you, Jilly! 🙂
Interesting, this piece, Sascha, attempting to picture the scene, and who might be talking. Kind of poignant, especially the symbolism of photographing the unreachable. I found an underwater camera on a rocky outcrop by the sea once. Perhaps the owner was taken by a shark. Great camera though.😜
….was there film in the camera? images on the card? Was there an entire story of the diver being eaten by a great white yet the camera survived?….or are you fictioning? 😀
Ha ha. Total fact, a Nikon, and I used it for many years. There was nothing on the film, but there was a bloodstain and bite marks on the camera. Okay, that last bit is fiction.🦈
The dialogue is confusing, but it fits the ex-love theme. I love that he didn’t leave the memory card. Kind of sad. And finally, there is something not right with the two characters. They seem guilty. A unique style of writing, well written too.
Very Beautiful the title really fits the description of an abandoned camera which brought back a nostalgic feeling in my heart.
Thank you! 🙂