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My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close

My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,

So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

-Emily Dickenson

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Back in the day, I participated in the Enkidu07/Onyx Moonbeam Drabble Challenge, actually since Groundhog-early Spring of 2009 until well into that Fall. I picked up drabbling again in recent years with the SPN100 Challenge.

I've been, since the beginning, choosing the titles to all of my stories from songs that had provided the air & atmosphere in which I'd written them. - I don't know why this is, except that I listen to music a whole lot, and I'm kind of an oddity. -- Anyway, here the songs to my drabbles (so far):

"Goodbye Milky Way" by Enigma, for Challenge Word= "Lash"

"For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Metallica, for Challenge Word= "Thermometer"

"Importune Me No More" by Faith and The Muse, for Challenge Word= "Wrench"

"Bones" by Radiohead, for Challenge Word= "Nausea"

"While Your Lips Are Still Red" by Nightwish, also for UnGen's Ruby/Bitch Challenge- E/O Challenge Word= "Numb"

"Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring, for Challenge Word= "Numb"

"Selling the Drama" by Live, In memory of Kim Manners, and for Challenge Word= "Graze"

"Shadows and Tall Trees" by U2, for Challenge Word= "Face"

"The Hunter" by Clannad, for Challenge Word= "Collapse"

"The Hanging Garden" by The Cure, for Challenge Word= "Melt"

"White As Snow" by U2, Wherein Dean has a fever for Mad Server's birthday- & Challenge Word= "Profile"

"In The Darkness" by Lisbeth Scott, Companion somewhat of "White As Snow," and for Challenge Word= "Shudder"

"Good Enough" by Evanescence, sort of a continuation of "Shadows and Tall Trees" for Challenge Word= "Light"

"And Dream Of Sheep" by Kate Bush, for Challenge Word= "Fade"

"In The Name Of The Father" by U2, for Challenge Word= "Cover"

"Red, Red Wine" by Neil Diamond, for Challenge Word= "Whinge"

"Angels Losing Sleep" by Our Lady Peace, for Challenge Word= "Drag"

"Fall On Me" by R.E.M., A double drabble, for Challenge Words= "Splinter" and "Frame"

"Turn The Page" by Metallica, for Challenge Word= "Dry"

"Long & Lost" by Florence and the Machine, for Challenge Word= "Twin"

"Prism of Life" by Enigma, Double Drabble, for Challenge Words= "Sharp" and "Breath"

"Cover Me Up" by Jason Isbell, Double Drabble, for Challenge Words= "Cover" and "Buzz"

"Fallen Embers" by Enya, for Challenge Word= "Pet"

"Soul Plane" inspired by "Life On Mars" by David Bowie and "Rocket Man" by Elton John for the Challenge Word= "Cover"

Okay- I guess that's about it. I'll leave you with a quote from a favorite song of my bygone days, which another writer in this fandom, incidentally, has shared on her own Profile. I read it and remembered how it gave, and continues to give, the inspiration I crave:

"These are the days you might fill with laughter until you break. These days you might feel a shaft of limelight make its way across your face." -"These Are Days" Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs)Thanks for stopping by!