When I was young and things were good, when I wasn't busy with either of my jobs, when it was winter and it was cold and I preferred to stay inside, sometimes I would write. Not much. Not anything long, not anything worth attention. It was a bit childish, really, but I'd write down some amateurish attempts at poetry. I'd write about friendship, and about love.
Nowadays I have more free time than I used to. Sometimes I use some of it to go scrub off moss from where I don't want it to grow. But I don't write anymore.
An entry into the 2nd A Thousand Words contest, under the "Drama" category.
Prereading courtesy of Reviewfilly.
Chapters (1)
Damn, this is good.
do love the specificity here
and augh, the contrast between what those words must have been and the idyll of the scene
she just smiled and turned away, huh?
interesting choice of synonym for a levee
ah, the Equestrian version of whiskey and rye
honestly, just very impressive how this works as a collection of realist vignettes as Bon Bon stumbles through life after news of Lyra’s death, and as a recreation of those song lyrics. well done with that, and thank you for writing!
(Reads the last line)
(Rereads the title)
It was an American Pie reference, you son of a—
Ahem. Okay. Okay, I’m cool. So. Whole-song reference though it may be, that song is still based on a real-world event, and this Equestrian adaptation of it works quite well. It seems safe to assume the other two great musicians were Octavia and Vinyl, but it’s obvious whose loss hit Bonbon the hardest, and her grief is palpable in how she still avoids specifics ten years after the fact (which makes it a bit harder than necessary to piece everything together, especially for those who missed the reference and/or the short description, but it is a nice touch.)
Great work. Thank you for it.