Valley of Fear: Late Entry

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Author: godsdaisiechain
Canon Tale: Late entry
Word count: 60
Rating: General

"Person from Porlock."  Death grinned, for that skeletal face lacked the flesh to do anything else, as carefully he carved this new appellation into his cache of amusing nicknames.

Only rarely did the opium-addled beat him at chess, but this Coleridge proved formidable, even while babbling half-mad nonsense about pleasure domes in Xanadu. Mercifully most of the gibberish was lost.

Comments

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

What an excellent idea! Thank you for sharing, and for writing it so well. The chess game was a masterly touch.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Such a good idea - and Death clearly doesn't appreciate romantic poetry, perhaps understandably.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

You are SO nice. I was reading Terry Pratchett's last book and looking at sherlock60 and well.... this happened.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Or maybe the whole poem wasn't as good as Coleridge thought and Death from Porlock kind of helped him out. (I know, it's kind of an evil thought. Please forgive me.)

: o

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Well done. Glad you weren't scared off ladt week.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

You are so kind and wonderful! I was a fairly regular participant until work got out of control (I'm in a tenure track job) and just trying to get back in the swing of it.

[debriswoman]

I admit I had to look up the reference and the links...having done so, I am full of admiration for your ingenuity:-)

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

You are too kind...it's mostly just the effects of two local lagers and the final Terry Pratchett novel.

I remain in awe of your poetic gifts.... 60 words that scan.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

It has to be said that Death is particularly good at putting an end to "inspired creativity" ^^" At least in this case he just did a bit of editing ^^

A clever and inspired connection.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

I love the way you put that... a bit of editing.... Thanks for the kind words.