Last Lines Meme
Jun. 15th, 2019 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
toujours_nigelto go with the previous. Rules: list the last lines of your last 10 published stories. See if there are any patterns yourself, or have other people say what they notice.
agyana: “No,” Vasusena agreed, smiling, light limning his grey hair. “Only Kama’s arrows for you tonight.”
pravilabhate: The whispers thronging the hall stifle and still, and Dushala’s grip on his hand grows painful, and finally Krishna rises, and raises Bhanumati to her feet, and puts his lotus-pink palm on her forehead, and says, “Tathastu.”
life, the one you get: “Nat,” he says, every time. “That’d take years.”
sukhin: “No,” Sita says decidedly, “for you were a blessing to your parents, and I to mine.”
yashashvini: “I am your Queen, and you will remember it. I have been your Queen for twenty years, and I will always be your Queen.”
saputra: “I will undertake motherhood,” he tells her, smiling lest the tears come, “if only you will stand as his father instead.”
yukta: This morning he is in her arms again, his mouth twitching into a smile as he wakes.
mugdhakriti: “I am a rakshashi," she laughs. "You humans are delicious to us.”
dvitiya: “I was fearless once," Madri tells her. "I was foolish.”
kuhaka: “I am now,” he says. “But when your father was young as your eldest nephew, I was Princess Amba of Kashi.”
*shrug enoji* A lot of these are ficlets, so the last lines are either cryptic or ominous or in some other way twisting out of the path set by the rest of the story.
agyana: “No,” Vasusena agreed, smiling, light limning his grey hair. “Only Kama’s arrows for you tonight.”
pravilabhate: The whispers thronging the hall stifle and still, and Dushala’s grip on his hand grows painful, and finally Krishna rises, and raises Bhanumati to her feet, and puts his lotus-pink palm on her forehead, and says, “Tathastu.”
life, the one you get: “Nat,” he says, every time. “That’d take years.”
sukhin: “No,” Sita says decidedly, “for you were a blessing to your parents, and I to mine.”
yashashvini: “I am your Queen, and you will remember it. I have been your Queen for twenty years, and I will always be your Queen.”
saputra: “I will undertake motherhood,” he tells her, smiling lest the tears come, “if only you will stand as his father instead.”
yukta: This morning he is in her arms again, his mouth twitching into a smile as he wakes.
mugdhakriti: “I am a rakshashi," she laughs. "You humans are delicious to us.”
dvitiya: “I was fearless once," Madri tells her. "I was foolish.”
kuhaka: “I am now,” he says. “But when your father was young as your eldest nephew, I was Princess Amba of Kashi.”
*shrug enoji* A lot of these are ficlets, so the last lines are either cryptic or ominous or in some other way twisting out of the path set by the rest of the story.
