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He, Green Lad
By nicknack28
17 March 2008
This piece shall hopefully be continued with later additions.  As with many others' posts, this is my first on Great Writing.  That's just giving an official "top of the mornin' to ya" to the new people met.

Seeking foamy frostbite, my tongue disposed of embers and tossed them about for a pint.  Indeed, ‘twas a Sunday eve and naught would plow my schedule down like pin to make its own way.  Naught should plunder my forethoughts of ale veins and a frothy nickle-sink.  Plainly, the pub.   Its habited draw, descending one to a lowly point -- past peeping like Tom with customary drop-by’s -- carted into my attention.  Nothing could betray my hand its want, nothing could make my mind fickle with blasphemous reach, and nothing could keep a bottle from making love to my tongue.  No no, night out, I say!  My grotto (why linger here, distanced from hiccup?) claimed primly garnished apathy and decorative disinterest, and yet still held from vine and weed, lovers as they are, clasping hands and embracing my hovel.  It bade my exit a familiar, amused, and foreseen snort of disapproval, and opened its soil-gate to plowing gait.  “’Fie!’ not, rather hie, to right myself with keg.  Off to seek the brothy brews!”  The ejaculation popped with gaiety.

My boots never claimed absence of soil, rather stained from the favorite trek.  How so, though, might one ready himself?  Complexion?  My chin ever-attempted brawny cornfield shoots.  Men didn’t cut the soup-catchers from themselves ‘round these parts and I conceded to like-mindedness.  Wherefore was the jacket?  Aha!, ayonder under watch and abreast the banister.  What a fogy the fettering, trap-in-the-ground pothole this place was!  Banister . . .  Hah, if that.  A couple beetles ‘hind my lashes gawked at my tall grandfather, his analog picking away at wayward silence.  On the hind side of eight?  Plentifully the hour coaxed me still; inaction shan’t play enemy to the silent desolation here.  Onward, afoot!  Beget my merriment, kind flagons, I hearken to your hails.

The wind wrapped my present scarf too fondly with its bearings a-to, ‘round my own throat, and collar mounted highly with an inching trespass about my neck, but hold worry and chide your nerve, for good time brings liquid expanse to my throat, as each week’s end makes means to, and consequently finds success.  How a man -- nay, I -- duly hoped for another nightly victory ‘top knocking stool.

Cousin dusk, amiable as an any-man could pull, gave a light and bid me to prize it.  Indeed I did so; one ill-placed “sure-foot” on the street could boggle my intentions and chap them to secession, for commonly did the blasted beasts of metal make their runs here.  A body cannot proceed with tidings if one or two short on limbs, chipped off by an overzealous road- whisker or whistler, wailing about with wheels wiping the under-tuft.  Blimey the roads can trip you rightly!  Best keep a sturdy stomp, there.  Yes, even local portholes to a wetted, social smock such as this local patch town, ripe each yon and year with communal trivialities and ancient hour-tales (told torrentially times too many), trafficked the spry.   Those “whipped snappers” beat down doors at youngling ages.  How, even then, bottles braced against restraint and burrowed into fingering clasps, the wee-tods tipping back for swigs.  Ah Hellfire, may the drink draw ‘pon haste, God speed!  Pray the only thing to make the byway seem sluggish be my thirst!

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Written by fellpony (1714 comments posted) 19th March 2008
Well, it's different. I'll say that for it. So, we have a man (I assume; talking of a beard, anyway!) going down the pub for a drink. What I would like to know is why he thinks in such convoluted language. Where's it leading to? Is there a story in here knocking to get out? IS this Ulysses version 2? will we ever know?

Written by nicknack28 (3 comments posted) 19th March 2008
Firstly, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to read this. I'll address your first question first (duh). The original aim was to take a first-person perspective that has an older tone about it (as well as more formal), similar to Frankenstein or The Fall of the House of Usher, but I believe my liking for metaphors tripped it up way too much. It's hard to resist making each sentence unique and interesting (at least to myself), even though stories definitely should not read so complicatedly. Only poetry should need to be thickly written. This is something I need to work on, most definitely. 
 
For where it is leading to, that is my mistake of not giving a clear explanation at the beginning. This piece is/is intended to be to beginning of a short story and therefore would not give background details or actually proceed anywhere yet. I hesitated to stick it and the following pieces into Extended Fiction because I didn't believe it would be long enough to demand a word cap of 5000 per entry. I should have put a Part 1 or something at the top -- my bad. But yes, there is a story knocking to get out, just not quickly.

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