Chapter 7 of Heart's Landscape

[tocryabout]

Chapter 7, Undoer of Knots, is finished. A week later than planned, because I got lazy.

Words OpenOffice didn't know:
Krav Maga
interdimensional
fucko
Telepaths (still! I was sure I added it after last time)
hellbound

[Read from the beginning]

PS merci beaucoup to Eve Tushnet for the big pimpin'.

Comments

[cija.livejournal.com]

I saw the_red_shoes's mention of this story & The Aphanes in her lj this morning. I was just going to go and look a little and then I gave my whole day to them. I barely know what to say. I don't know why I never read them before. Your writing feels very dangerous, or it makes me feel very dangerous, as it makes me think, I understand perfectly about a lot of things, when I don't really, probably.

The part about sex being scandalous - it really is. That was so well-put. And everything about wanting and not wanting, and from earlier in the story, Joel's whole thing about being ashamed of gestures, ashamed of comfort, shame and kindness. This is all so good.

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

it makes me think, I understand perfectly about a lot of things, when I don't really, probably.

I was reading the other day that the capacity for empathy isn't fully developed until age 16 or 17, so I guess there goes my theory that we all understand each other instinctively, and it's only the particulars of situations and perspectives that are unknown, like light shining through different colours and shapes of glass. It's one of those ideas that I know is a little naive but I like it anyway.

Thanks so much for enjoying this. (I'm especially glad when non-religious people get my writing, since I worry that that element is too opaque.)