busyThis poem belongs to the "Monster House" series, and you can read the related poems on the "Serial Poetry" page of my website. It was inspired in large part by a thread under "Until the Cows Come Home," especially this comment from ![[info]](https://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=3){kind=small}
kelkyag:
I was thinking there might be *quite* a bit of bumpiness after the time machine incident, given that before that the mother thought the grandmother was senile. How do you bring up a topic like that twenty or thirty years overdue, with all the misunderstandings they've been dancing around or tripping over all that time?
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The card says "Happy Mother's Day" above a picture
of pink peonies and purple lilacs blooming over
a white picket fence with one slat missing. Inside ...
Dear Mama,
I love you and I wish we could see each other more often. Maybe we could get together for coffee next Sunday? I think we have a lot to talk about. Thank you for helping your granddaughter with her science project, though it would have been nice to know about that in advance. I'm happy to see that your hobby is working out better these days. I'd like to hear more about that too.
Love,
Your Little Princess
Hmm...
May 7 2011, 23:55:48 UTC 10 years ago
May 8 2011, 01:08:09 UTC 10 years ago
Thoughts
May 8 2011, 01:25:54 UTC 10 years ago
The flow is subtler there, yes. I did figure that "Can She Bake a Scary Pie?" logically preceded "Fair Maiden Meets Fierce Villain." Over time, people become more accustomed to turning to her for help and thus more respectful of her because they've seen her solve more problems.
>> I'm tempted to liken the Fiorenza series to an episodic TV series,<<
That makes sense. I've watched a number of historic TV shows, and I enjoy them.
>> Monster House to a soap opera (with potential for spinoff series),<<
0_o ZOMG, it is. I had not thought of it that way, but it is. Clearly my mother's fond recollections of watching Dark Shadows have rubbed off on me more than I realized.
>> and Origami Mage to a stand-alone novel. <<
Yeah, that makes sense too. It's the only one with a very clear beginning and end, and a strongly guiding plot arc.
>>Having said that, I'm sure things will change. <<
That's possible. Part of what broke Monster House out of the primary narrator's viewpoint was that it won the poll for last month's bonus poem, and the original inspiration for that perk included the option to explore side stories and bit characters. Since Fiorenza won this month's poll for an extra series poem, that might broaden the field there too -- or not.
May 8 2011, 01:33:47 UTC 10 years ago
... and I don't know how I forgot about Scary Pie.
Well...
May 8 2011, 01:43:07 UTC 10 years ago
Blame