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The 5 words are:
- carve
- closely
- major
- publish
- tip
The stories:
- Don't publish this; Analize this.
- And the moral of the story is...
"Socialite"
She posed.
She had carved so closely
to the
major Artery
with the
tip
of her tongue.Her mind was published.
So was her photograph.
(Triskie)Don't publish this; Analize this!
When he entered she was just at shadow shifting distance. And maybe he had wanted to keep her that way, so they'd discover her in amber one day and realise...
"Can I help you, sir ...?", she said ironically.
He had tried so hard not to break this moment, and there she stood with bleeding hands, killing her own beauty. This blade cut at two sides. A voice snarled deep in his mind, screaming at her:
"You don't remember, you don't remember! Why don't you remember my name?".
He walked towards her, arms wide open as to embrace, and if there was anything in life it was to embrace love with open arms when it struck you. Though he knew that no one ever did, people just sat there dazed, others would frantically try to escape. So he understood why she tried to get out of what slowly turned from an embrace into a fierce grip. He understood that perfectly, and knew why she went hysterical when he carved his name in the palm of her hand, he looked at it closely, kissed her hand:
"I didn't mean to hurt you, I didn't mean to make you cry",
she was his eternal love, and now he would be hers. He wiped the tears from her face. Bewildered she sat down. As he wanted to leave the room, maybe she realised what had happened, she stood up again and started to yell at him. The words, those words and again the bloodshed. He realised he had come too late, sighed, calmly laid his hands around her neck, and squeezed. Maybe there was some resistance, maybe this would become a major issue for him, but now it was the eye of the storm. While far away off you could hear the raging, here there was only silence.
He left a tip in the dish and went out on the streets, neon lights seemed to buzz:
"Sexual healing"
He didn't know whom he had cured, but maybe they'd discover her in amber one day, and realise...
(Lizzy)That the knight had made the decision was an event in itself. Now all he had to do was prove his love for the lovely lady Swanneck and they could live happily ever after.
Every girl in the kingdom wished that a knight would come wisk her away from the horrible peasantry that they had to live every day. A handsome knight was the only way out of their dreary routines...marrying into the royal family was out of the question, since the royals normally married within other royal families (which might have accounted for all of the birth defects, but that's another story). Other than the royals, only the knights were allowed to live in bliss, with more than enough money. And knights were allowed to marry anyone they wished. They protected the king and queen and their kingdom, after all. It was only right that they be kept happy.
The most recent knight who was voted the most eligible bachelor in the kingdom two years in a row was a man by the name of Gurfunk Blasphmey. And his heart had finally been won over by the Lady Alinxme Swanneck. Now, Swanneck *used* to be one of the royal families, until late in the last century when one of the princesses chose to marry into the peasantry, and the family name had been in the peasantry ever since. This was a -major- faux pas on the princess's part, and if one in the Swanneck family were ever to utter her name, it was considered a sin.
The girl had won the knight's heart back when she had had to work closely with a certain campaign against another kingdom. Alinxme was the one who had to sew all of the clothes, and together Gurfunk and she had carved out a relationship while he consulted her with the best way to inter-weave iron into comfortable cotton clothing.
But, as I have said before, the knight now had to perform a deed of high danger and violence to gain her appreciation. This was no small task, especially in those days. Dragons were scarce, ogres were actually turning into some sort of feminist movement, and golemns were working on being accepted as 'real' to the community. There just weren't very many violent and dangerous things left.
Just as the knight was about to give up hope of ever performing a successfull slaughter of some nearly extinct beast, he recieved a tip. Apparently, there was some strange beast to the east of the kingdom that was terrorizing some small village, and they had sent a letter to the king requesting some assistance. Gurfunk mounted his steed, a dashing black equine named Borhoff, and spurred him in the direction of the village.
The monster had done major damage to the fields of corn to the east, so naturally that's the direction the villagers pointed our dashing young hero. And indeed, he found a cave in which he found the beast, which turned out to be a rather large, fire-breathing tiger. But as Gurfunk pulled out his sword to slay the thing, it spoke to him in a deep, vibrating voice.
"I do wish you would come back tomorrow, sir. I've just finished eating, and would like some rest and to clean up before I do battle with a knight."
Gurfunk, being the tactful and well educated knight that he was, agreed. And so he went back to the village and spent the night in a barn on a nice, soft bed of hay.
Unfortunately, the next day, published in the local village publication, he was shocked to read that the beast had attacked again during the night, burning down the local dance hall, in which the 'Sugarbuggie' was gleefully danced every night, but would be no more.
Enraged that his hospitality had been betrayed, Gurfunk saddled up Borhoff and rode again to the cave, sword drawn even before he entered this time. It wasn't needed however, because the tiger-beast had been attacked by somthing else during the night, and whatever had done the damage had also killed the thing. Gurfunk was human, and though he had not *really* done any act of violence or defeated anything dangerous, he cut off the thing's head and rode back to the kingdom.
After the peasantry saw the head of the beast and 'ooh'ed and 'ah'ed over it for a while, Gurfunk and Alinxme were married in the royal chapel with a large ceremony and much ado.
You may have noticed that there is no moral to this story. I ask you, why must there be a moral in every medieval story written? Can't there just be *one* story told by a person such as I that is simple entertainment? Fine, I suppose if you want a moral, then I will give you this: just because tradition dictates that you must do something horrible doesn't mean that if natural causes does the job for you you can't take advantage of it. There.
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