Love's Epitaph
- N.R. Gasan
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Re: Love's Epitaph
E-gads! I don't know whether to feel elated that my story was so well received, or guilty for making so many folks that I'm fond of feel weepy. I can say that I myself got quite emotional when I was writing this -- far more so than I expected -- but I wasn't expecting others to share the experience. I mean, when you're writing something, you hope your work -- essay, story, poem, whatever -- will evoke certain emotions in the reader, but until you get feedback you're never certain if you've hit the mark.
As for any follow-ups, I gotta think about that. I mean that literally; I intended this story to be a one-shot deal. Frankly, this was my way of showing-off, kind of. I wanted to entertain and, yes, impress my fellow Infected. "Hey, lookee what I can do." Seriously, I am truly humbled by your comments. I really didn't expect my story to make much of an impression, considering all of the great fan fiction offered by members of Team Eli. I am genuinely in great company.
Thanks again, everyone, for your kind words. It makes all the tears shed while writing "Love's Epitaph" worth it. :)
As for any follow-ups, I gotta think about that. I mean that literally; I intended this story to be a one-shot deal. Frankly, this was my way of showing-off, kind of. I wanted to entertain and, yes, impress my fellow Infected. "Hey, lookee what I can do." Seriously, I am truly humbled by your comments. I really didn't expect my story to make much of an impression, considering all of the great fan fiction offered by members of Team Eli. I am genuinely in great company.
Thanks again, everyone, for your kind words. It makes all the tears shed while writing "Love's Epitaph" worth it. :)
- sauvin
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Re: Love's Epitaph
o/~a_contemplative_life wrote:I thought that was just the smoke in your eyes.sauvin wrote:I was OK until she dragged out the Morse Code. Honest, I was...a_contemplative_life wrote:I was fine until I got to the part where Eli pulled out the Morse Code and the Cube. Then it was all downhill . . .
... OK, who's the reeking sack of mullet who hid the Kleenex...?
Break a heart, break a heart of stone
'Cuz that's all I got to give you
Believe me Babe, it ain't been used
My heart's a virgin, its never been tried
And you know I'll never cry
o/~
("I Never Cry" - Alice Cooper) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsPqYPcfhUg
Fais tomber les barrières entre nous qui sommes tous des frères
Re: Love's Epitaph
Too bad the obituary did not mention surviving family members, like a son Elias and/or a daughter Ellie.
Smitten or bitten
- a_contemplative_life
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Re: Love's Epitaph
You knew what was going to happen!N.R. Gasan wrote:E-gads! I don't know whether to feel elated that my story was so well received, or guilty for making so many folks that I'm fond of feel weepy. I can say that I myself got quite emotional when I was writing this -- far more so than I expected -- but I wasn't expecting others to share the experience. I mean, when you're writing something, you hope your work -- essay, story, poem, whatever -- will evoke certain emotions in the reader, but until you get feedback you're never certain if you've hit the mark.
As for any follow-ups, I gotta think about that. I mean that literally; I intended this story to be a one-shot deal. Frankly, this was my way of showing-off, kind of. I wanted to entertain and, yes, impress my fellow Infected. "Hey, lookee what I can do." Seriously, I am truly humbled by your comments. I really didn't expect my story to make much of an impression, considering all of the great fan fiction offered by members of Team Eli. I am genuinely in great company.
Thanks again, everyone, for your kind words. It makes all the tears shed while writing "Love's Epitaph" worth it.
I'm now firmly convinced that this is all part of a conspiracy masterminded by Wolf, JAL and TA to turn us into hopeless emos. Even tough as nails old Sauvin has succumbed. Can anyone resist this sort of thing? If you can, I despise you!
- cmfireflies
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Re: Love's Epitaph
Aww, c'mon guys, it was sad, but there was essentially a happy ending right?!?
I might to immunized by the fact that the very first LtROI fanfic I ever read was also set in a graveyard and was 100 times sadder...
Great job N.R!
I might to immunized by the fact that the very first LtROI fanfic I ever read was also set in a graveyard and was 100 times sadder...
Great job N.R!
"When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it."
Re: Love's Epitaph
Me tooa_contemplative_life wrote:I was fine until I got to the part where Eli pulled out the Morse Code and the Cube. Then it was all downhill . . .
I'm glad that Eli has someone new though and this one should last a bit longer too
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Re: Love's Epitaph
I hope nobody is about to write Eli's Epitaph
Phillip J. Fry: "I hate my life, I hate my life, I hate my life."
"It is the nature of men to create monsters, and it is the nature of monsters to destroy their makers."
"It is the nature of men to create monsters, and it is the nature of monsters to destroy their makers."
- sauvin
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Re: Love's Epitaph
Kinda hard to write an epitaph for a pile of ashes that blows away in the wind before it's properly cooled off, don't you think?HonzaP wrote:I hope nobody is about to write Eli's Epitaph
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Re: Love's Epitaph
my point is Eli not a vampire creature, no matter if it would be epitaph for a pile of asches, skeleton, rotting corpse or chopped body on some scientist's table, it would be epitaph for ELI and this is which would have really great emotional damage on most of us (in my opinion)sauvin wrote:Kinda hard to write an epitaph for a pile of ashes that blows away in the wind before it's properly cooled off, don't you think?HonzaP wrote:I hope nobody is about to write Eli's Epitaph
EDIT: and what about cremation? is it easy to write an epitaph for an urn full of asches? (no offense of course )
Phillip J. Fry: "I hate my life, I hate my life, I hate my life."
"It is the nature of men to create monsters, and it is the nature of monsters to destroy their makers."
"It is the nature of men to create monsters, and it is the nature of monsters to destroy their makers."
- Microwave Jellyfish
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Re: Love's Epitaph
Memories are bittersweet
The good times we can‘t repeat
Those days are gone and we can never get them back
Now we must move ahead
Despite our fear and dread
We‘re all just wishing we could stop, but
Life goes on
(This was just because I've realized what Epitaph Records' name means, I never checked that word in the dictionary until today. Hehh.)
So. This was good. I'm glad you shared this with us. Sad as hell it was, yet 10 minutes after reading it I feel strangely relieved. Probably because I got "Can't Repeat" on the radio. Good combination with the story.
The good times we can‘t repeat
Those days are gone and we can never get them back
Now we must move ahead
Despite our fear and dread
We‘re all just wishing we could stop, but
Life goes on
(This was just because I've realized what Epitaph Records' name means, I never checked that word in the dictionary until today. Hehh.)
So. This was good. I'm glad you shared this with us. Sad as hell it was, yet 10 minutes after reading it I feel strangely relieved. Probably because I got "Can't Repeat" on the radio. Good combination with the story.
Yuck, I remember that one, it was written by Chun. Saddest thing I've ever read. I'm sure NR didn't want to top anything in that way. I feel a kinda-happy ending here.cmfireflies wrote:I might to immunized by the fact that the very first LtROI fanfic I ever read was also set in a graveyard and was 100 times sadder...
And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.