Write On Wednesdays Exercise 16:
Hadge says: Take a favorite (or even random play) song and write the story behind the lyrics, not something inspired by the lyric, but the flesh on the bones of the story. It gives lots of scope for interpretative writing. Use the lyrics or theme of a song for a piece of flash fiction (50 to 200 words). To clarify, write your version of the story behind the lyrics in a song Nick Cave is an Australian musical legend and I adore his musical poetry. My piece is not his meaning of the song, but it is the interpretation I have taken from it. This song has special meaning for me so I've written a (true) fairytale with an unhappy ending.
Listen here whilst you read......
Into my arms
A blue eyed angel, just one, lived with her
parents in the sandstone house on the narrow street. A good child became a beautiful woman who fell
in and out of love. She studied hard, she partied hard, she laughed a lot, she
loved deeply.
As she grew to know her destiny (to work
for others, to have a family) fate (or God?) stepped in.
This was not to be. The cells had spoken.
For her, a battle royal, a disintegration of body, a struggle of mind, a gentle
swell of time before the end.
Last days spent above the perfumed garden in
the arms of those who adored her, final breaths as carols chimed.
A comfort of angels fill the candle-lit sandstone
house on the narrow street.
