This cries out for an explanation

[pegkerr]

I was walking by a funeral home today, on my way to where my car was parked, and I saw on the grass under the tree three frying pans.

!

There has GOT to be a short story there. Or maybe even the seed of a novel.

Another one I saw years ago: I came downstairs to the lobby of the apartment building where I lived, and found blood all over the floor, along with scattered white lilac blossoms.

Hmm . . . (goes off to ponder)

Peg

Comments

[daedala.livejournal.com]

I came downstairs to the lobby of the apartment building where I lived, and found blood all over the floor, along with scattered white lilac blossoms.

You're kidding. Wow. That's a story or novel or anything.

[bibliotrope.livejournal.com]

My first thought was, "That's an episode of Law and Order."

[misswrite.livejournal.com]

I've got one. I was walking to my parked car, passing other parked cars on the street. Something curious on the hood of one parked across the path caught my eye, and I approached to get a better look. A perfectly clean SPINE of some dead animal (cat-size or squirrel, maybe) was just lying there, sparkling in the sun. It was as if some little prankster kid had thrown it there for a laugh. I almost wanted to wait until the owner got back so I could ask about it, but decided I had better things to do even though I didn't.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I don't know about those frying pans, but the blood and white lilac petals ... yes. There's something there.

That's hit me in kind of the way Elise's necklaces do. Would you mind if I wrote a story around it? 'Cause there's one there, and I think I might be able to get hold of it.

Elves are perilous and fair.

Sure . . .

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

if I get to see it!

Cheers,
Peg

Re: Sure . . .

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Absolutely.

Now watch me get performance anxiety.

But, really, I think I know where the story is. And I think I know what it's about. It's not going to be a nice story at all--but then my stories almost never are. A slight defect in my character.

off topic

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lindsay_/]

but HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I have something that blood and lilacs image would fit really nicely in.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

Pan set to make statement (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/30/1051381968141.html)

"why, how pleased peg will be!" i thought. "now she'll understand what it was doing under that tree with its friends!"

(it's actually nothing of the sort, but i was tickled by it.)

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of something I saw in New Zealand. New Zealand has many volcanos. Many years ago one of them errupted, completely covering a Maori (the natives of NZ) village. A couple of months later, a man came by with a sewing machine one of the villagers had ordered. Not being able to find the village, he left it in a nearby tree... where it's still hanging today! The Maori village has been dug out, but whether New Zealanders are just so honest, or whether it's too good a story, I don't know. In any case, the sewing machine can still be found - if you look up high enough, as the tree has grown somewhat .