tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-05-11:512731 Gray Woodland, Writing on the Hoof caper_est 2011-02-01T21:36:27Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-05-11:512731:28973 2011-02-01T21:34:10Z 2011-02-01T21:36:27Z The Other Side of the Sun - Janis Ian exhausted public 0 <em>Killer-Kate and Luke Lackland:</em> 1,650 words, and a wild ride which I didn't know where it was going until the very last moment. &nbsp;Lord Evil temporarily discomfited; an important secondary character nearly gets her soul eaten by accident; and Flashy Elder Brother and his father most spectacularly earn a good few chapter's worth of their passage.&nbsp; I do love a scene of deep unexpected horror in which the final resolution has me bursting out loud with laughter and relief!&nbsp; I hope that effect will generalize to future readers...<br /><br />This messes the hell about with the rest of the Garcastle scenes, though.&nbsp; I'll have to tie off the business with the Duke's Relatively Okay&nbsp;Genius tomorrow when I've cooled down enough to think sensibly, and see how things look from there.<br /><br />I also emitted a poem in a white fury triggered by semi-random recollection of the myth of Cassandra and Apollo.&nbsp; I will not rehearse it here because, although I think it one of my better efforts, it is really very horrible.&nbsp; But at least Cass got to be the unequivocal hero of the piece for once, and may just have landed a blow as cruel and telling as the prophetic curse the Sun-God laid on her.&nbsp; Ever since my <a href="http://caper-est.dreamwidth.org/21139.html">dream of St Lucy's Eve</a>, I've been feeling even less fond of that particular gilded orc than I was previously.<br /><br />Dionysus, now...<br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=caper_est&ditemid=28973" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments