Flesh Caves: Fantasy

[penthius]

Caves ran in the runnels of melted flesh, places where the waxlike slow drip of her features created caverns. They lived there. Some of them remembered her; some of them didn't. *None* of them worshiped her. She was dead; she didn't care. But wars were fought along her skin, and children born, and other good things. The caves ran deeper, near to her bone, and the population grew, and generations lived and died inside her...and she became less dead even as her flesh stretched out to tenuous unrecognizability. Some shred of less-than-conscious--

Inspiration: The way the wax ran inside my desktop candle.
Story Potential: Er, high?
Notes: This is interesting, but I don't know where (if anywhere) it might go.

Comments

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

YES

An underused trope

EUPHEMISMS!

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

Oh, and "Vagina"

Re: EUPHEMISMS!

[penthius.livejournal.com]

Wow...keeping that at a story-loam level makes it really creepy....

Re: EUPHEMISMS!

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

Particularly if you make a conscious choice not to make it "sensuality of nature" or similar.

Re: EUPHEMISMS!

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

It also reminds me of a short story I wrote once about (sort of) Kabbalism and being grossly obese

Re: EUPHEMISMS!

[penthius.livejournal.com]

Which just makes me think of Madonna. And that's Just. Plain. Wrong.

Re: EUPHEMISMS!

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

Throw in BOTH Madonnas and you have a Gonzo Fantasy story right there.

Re: EUPHEMISMS!

[penthius.livejournal.com]

The whole "gonzo" spec-fic thing? Is a style I don't get.

It's a personal failing, I guess.

Re: EUPHEMISMS!

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

It usually feels a lot like "This would be fascinating if you bothered actually thinking it through a bit deeper". I've enjoyed some, but probably mostly because I tend to write up my own backgrounds/context/explanations for them. They're sometimes good, not really the style I write, and usually are really "Look at me! I'm breaking conventions! Crossing lines! LOOK AT HOW IRREVERENT I AM AND HOW I SHOW HOW ABSURD THINGS REALLY ARE!" obnoxious.

Re: EUPHEMISMS!

[penthius.livejournal.com]

...yeah.

Might explain why I look at it and go, "This is not a complete thing/style. I do not understand how it is broken like this and ..."

etc.