April 2011 SEVENTY-FIVE WORD CHALLENGE -- A Major Victory for Ursa!

[cornelius]

The Princess' choice.

He put his axe aside.
“Another hero. Fallen. He called me a monster, and this your prison.” Her silent tears worried him. “He was a good man, fair and strong. I understand why you mourn for him.”
She placed her hands on the pattern of rough reptilian scales which, for her, were the true outlines of beauty.
“My tears are not for your deeds, but for your doubts.”
With a kiss, she voiced her love.

[crys]

Spider Woman

I had grown weary on my perilous journey when I noticed wisps of smoke from a nearby adit. I approached, but hesitated on the threshold; beyond was darkness and the veil of the unknown.

A voice beckoned from within and, like the Twin War Gods of the Navaho, I encountered a mysterious woman. However this was no decrepit ancient but a supernatural bride, her head festooned with flowers.

‘Welcome’, she smiled, ‘I’ve been expecting you.’

[chrispenycate]

Rubaiyat in a Djinn bottle

A lifetime’s searching, triple wishes found
From crusted bottle deep in ocean drowned.
Materialising djinnah, radiant.
Her muscular, wild beauty now unbound.

My aspiration? Doth contract allow
Eternal healthy youth, riches, and thou?
Forgo prosperity, should thou accept.
Tak’st thou this passion I avow ?

Regard me, analyse the paradigme
The bottle now sinks , back into the slime
My youthened hormones boiling through my blood
With “ever after” future dark sublime.

[Moonbat]

Her Shoe

I saw a red shoe by the roadside and wondered, ‘To whom does it belong?’
I discovered someone had died there. Her body was found half way down the embankment, in a bush, battered, broken, like the shoe.
The next day I saw it too.
And the next.
Eventually I stopped for it.

Not safe on that blind bend.

She was still there, missing a shoe.
I carried it to her.
She cried.
We danced.

[nixie]

Sweetheart's Cove

Nancy watched daily for William's ship to come home. Although their love was forbidden, they had vowed to be together forever in life or death.

A passer-by saw her walking into the sea towards a smiling sailor. Called for her too come back.

Ignoring the call she took the sailor's hand and faded away. Never to be seen again.

The following day news arrived. William's ship had floundered all hands lost.

[Heoru]

The Dedicated Man

A figure stepped threw the pubs old doors

“Raise your glasses my drinking companions,
For I have returned from hell.

It was a grand expedition which goal was to save my lost love. Who was dragged to her peril by fiendish devils. To pay favor to Satan himself. Thou her eyes were never on me, I fought my way down the eternal pit. The time is short, so Better be returning to my brides side.

[Parson]

The Text of Love


I love you.
She waited. Her sighs were deep. Her hope profound.

>>Ping!<<
I love you more.

The message of her dreams.
Thumbs flying.
You’re everything I dreamed of in a man.

>>Ping!<<
My heart longs to bond with you.

The moment of truth had arrived.
His people pair bonded for life.
Her friends called it slavery.
He called it a covenant of the heart.
She followed her heart.

Beam me up. I’m yours forever.

[Chel]

Love is Blind

She never let me touch her before our marriage, but she touched me, body and heart. Soft hands, soft voice promising my sight back.

Afterwards, I couldn't bring myself to look at the hag's wilted features and grey wisps of hair. Disgust mingled with my love, hers; still strong and true. But my wows were sacred, so I put my eyes out never to have to see her again. Only feel and hear and love.

[TheEndIsNigh]

Two by Two.

As we said goodbye that day in the hospital; we hugged and cried and in your arms I passed.

“You are still young,” I said, “You must find a new love and be happy again.”

Foolish words, soon regretted. You were my soul mate. Only with you can we enter heaven; together. You could find another and be redeemed, I cannot.

So I await my fate, trusting in your love; desperately hoping you remain true.

[RoninJedi84]

Reunion


Gregory stares upward as silvery moonlight dances across Brianna's translucent skin. She kisses him passionately, grasping his hands as if she never will again. He doesn't stop her, ignoring the voice in the back of his mind. His Brianna has come again to be with him.

She whispers she must go, removing the pendant he had given her before...

He begs her not to leave, afraid to be alone again, wishing he will never wake...

[J Riff]

The Transparent Fundead...

“I’m sorry Marsha, I’m afraid I will never be able to see you as

anything other than a member of a mindless horde of undead things.”

“Dead or alive, I love you, Frank.”

“Yes. Bad luck, that.”

“Come to me darling, join the undead and we will be together,

forever.”

“No, I don’t think so. I don’t like ghost food,and-”

“Oh, I hate you! I wish you were dead!”

[The Spurring Platty]

Haunted by Beauty

From afar I watched her. I craved, lusted, and desired.
I coveted, oh how I coveted, wishing her to be mine forever.
When her life ended tragically, I made it my burden to remember.
Years passed until I alone remembered her.
Now every night her spectre comes.
Those dull, lifeless eyes stare down at me.
Eyes yearning for the spark of life in mine.
Now I only wish I could forget her.

[Lucky_Lola]

She Who Is Milk-White

She was perfection. The women of the city had twisted what was holy, but with her he found hope. A pious man, he prayed for deliverance.


Lips pressed her fingers and she stirred. A rose suffused her pale cheek, lashes fluttered like the wings of a moth to reveal wide pools of purity. She was perfection, and she was his.


Overjoyed, he wed her. She bore him a son, but her hands were always cold.

[Bob Senior]

REUNITED


Hector, American hero, had somehow survived 25 days in orbit without communications or lights in his capsule. The loneliness drove him mad they said.
Now in Veterans Hospital he spends his days calculating, drawing plans and figuring schedules to the 10th of a second.
He stays up late tonight, then asks the nurse, "date and time please, to the second", "December 20th, 2012, 23:59:55" she answers.
The building shakes, a blinding flash and Hector vanishes.

[GreenKidx]

Multiplication.

They called our love wicked... my lover, an abomination... me, narcissistic.

They torched our home, then chased us through the streets and into the wilderness.

'Where to?' he thinks, knowing I can hear him.

'Here.'

'Wood?'

'Stone.' I begin crying. He holds me. I can feel his arms around me and me within his arms.

Wearing my face he cries, 'Do you regret making me?'

I kiss him and feel it twofold.

'Never.'