“tell me why i bid on shatner’s old toupee / they had it on eBay”

[larryhammer]

Fic meme met via chestnut_pod: Go through your last 5 fics and share the first and last line. Provide no context.

I’m doing this by posting order, rather than writing, with most recent first.

Her First Affair

first: Humans can sail from sun to sun—in bays

last: Never forgot her summer romance in the cold.

Paul Bunyan and the Photocopier

first: Well, the time came Paul Bunyan had a pretty successful thing going with his lumber business.

last: It’s still there today, and that’s how you know this tale’s the honest truth.

Kassandra, at the Skiain Gate

first: Where is the present? Trojan walls were red

last: The walls of dumb Mykenae. An arrow shoots the raven.

Her Hair a Glory, Like a Saint

first: Porphyro was trying again to fix the bad rhyme in the fourth stanza when Nikolas burst open his garret door, waving an earthen jug—Porphyro ducked to avoid being brained.

last: With a lurch, he sped from the room, calling for his m’lord uncle’s guard—and the trackers with their hounds.

Psyche, at Midnight, in the Dark

first: She waited one full year and one day more

last: Or Love in hoarded doubt and clutched mistrust.

---L.

Subject quote from eBay, Weird Al Yankovic.

Comments

[kalmn]

paul bunyan? paul bunyan. i would not have figured that really anyone outside of minnesota would write about paul bunyan.

(have not read, on work computer now.)

[larryhammer]

Old Paul is as much a part of general American folklore as Pecos Bill and John Henry, and roughly as well-known. Heck, Robert Frost even wrote a narrative poem about him.