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rabidsamfan) wrote2005-06-27 11:46 pm
rabidsamfan) wrote2005-06-27 11:46 pm
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Fandom no. 9 Pern
(n.b. Anne McCaffrey has asked nicely for fans not to play with her characters, so this drabble is more a fannish response from me than the usual sort of fanfic.)
Refuge
There was one long year, when college was balanced against family and the Air National Guard; when I spent two weeks living in tents halfway across the world, and learned what it meant to be illiterate as I stared as Turkish signs, and then came home to find out that my grandmother was dying of cancer; one long summer and fall when I failed calculus and slept listening for my grandmother's call; when I fled again and again to the Harper Hall with sore feet and a sore heart and found nine singing firelizards to go soaring through my dreams.
Refuge
There was one long year, when college was balanced against family and the Air National Guard; when I spent two weeks living in tents halfway across the world, and learned what it meant to be illiterate as I stared as Turkish signs, and then came home to find out that my grandmother was dying of cancer; one long summer and fall when I failed calculus and slept listening for my grandmother's call; when I fled again and again to the Harper Hall with sore feet and a sore heart and found nine singing firelizards to go soaring through my dreams.
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I used to write Pern fanfic, in my daydreams, and never knew that "fanfic" is what it was.
But yes, it was a wonderful way to get away for a time.
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