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A Requiem for a KiwiMuses of pain are the best fed muses. Nothing suckles energy and spits out art as misery fed muses. They drink long and they drink deep and for all their vampiric hag-like appearance and tendencies I say they help.

They are like the witch doctors that sucks out the snake poison then lay feverish themselves for days, akin to the doctor who amputates the leg under fire and the hundreds who die in every forlorn hope.

The muses of pain are companions in the lightless thickets where insanity awaits. They are the slivers of purpose and sanity that go down with us to the darkest recesses of the human psyche, our own distressed mind.

"Lasciate ogn

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+ LA PETITE REVOLUTION +by *boum

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It's finally out: my novella La petite révolution (The Small Revolution) is now available on Lulu, both in paperback and downloadable .pdf versions! It took me quite a few months of playing around with its interior design and a couple of scrap copies to learn from my mistakes (one copy had cut the page numbers, the other had mysterious blank pages spread throughout), but now it looks nice and spiffy and perfect.

La petite révolution is a novella I wrote for a Literature class I had last year; it's the longest fiction I've ever written and finished. I've come up with longer stories before, but never did I put the finishing period at the end of one. It's a first for me!

Unfortunately, it's all in French and I won't be translating it as I fear most of its essence will be lost in translation. I know a lot of people here don't speak French, but some of you do, or maybe some of you will learn it eventually, haha... it'd be neat to start off with this I guess <3

Here's an excerpt, for those who are still reading this and are interested:

Je m’appelle Florence. Je vais mourir bientôt.
Je sais ce que vous allez penser: nous venons tout juste de faire connaissance, et déjà je vous annonce solennellement mon grand depart. Faut pas vous en faire, je sais parfaitement où je m’en vais — d’habitude, les gens ont tendance à croire que les enfants ignorent tout de la mort, mais non, détrompez-vous. On m’a tout appris. C’est que, voyez-vous, il n’y a que moi qui puisse faire une différence, et j’ai choisi de la faire, pour le bien des autres enfants, pour qu’ils aient plus de chance que moi. Même si c’est juste un peu, ce sera toujours mieux que rien du tout.
J’ose espérer.

Thanks, it means a lot to me you guys! And if you do read it, be sure to tell me what you think! I get a lot of feedback on my visual art, but writing is still uneasy for me and I need all the help I can get! Even if I got a very good grade for this, huhuhu.

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As this is being adapted into a comic, I took the book down. I hope you're looking forward to the comic version as much as me!

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~Mymakao Nov 14, 2009

je viens de le finir (j'ai mis du temps à le recevoir!)... dis tu en ferais pas une BD??? c'est génial, j'ai pleins d'images dans la tête, la scène finale serait énorme avec ton graphisme... en tout cas bravo!!

*boum Nov 14, 2009 Professional Filmographer

Yééé, merci!

En faire une BD---ça serait mon rêve, haha! Peut-être un jour, qui sait; c'est une idée qui me trotte dans la tête, mais je me sens pas prête pour ça encore (la BD est encore tout un défi pour moi...). Quand j'aurai le temps... on verra...

~Gothghostgirl Nov 8, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

Wow, je suis tellement heureuse pour toi... C'est genre mon plus grand rêve que de publier quelque chose un jour. Fake pour t'encourager je l'ai acheté! Juste l'extrait ça me convains, et en plus je veux t'encourager.
Aussi, j'ai beaucoup moi aussi d'histoires pas encore terminé, et ma plus importante concerne la mort alors je veux voir comment toi tu as exploité le sujet. Anyway! Je te dirai comment je l'ai trouvé aussitôt qu'il arrive et que je l'ai lu! J'espère que tu vas en vendre beaucoup!

*boum Nov 8, 2009 Professional Filmographer

Hé merci beaucoup! Ça reste quand même de l'auto-publication, c'est pas chez un grand éditeur, mais l'avoir tout relié dans tes mains ça vaut le coup...

J'espère que tu vas aimer---et je tiens à savoir ce que t'en penses!

=Isaac-Volpe Oct 14, 2009

Very nice book cover, unfortunately I would be unable to read its contents but at least that's not the only thing to enjoy about it.

*boum Oct 14, 2009 Professional Filmographer

Thanks

~yadelajoie Oct 14, 2009

felicitations mamzelle!!!

*boum Oct 14, 2009 Professional Filmographer

Merci

~SasukeUchihaFangirlx Oct 13, 2009

oh id love to get it! ... yet sadly i am only a french 2 student... ._.
and if you had to write it for school, i take it its not an easy book... XD the level of my vocabulary in french is 'je m'appelle jaclyn, et j'ai un sandwich! Je regrette mais, j'ai faim. Tu ne peux pas a il.' XD .... i really really hope i spelled that right... XD;;

*boum Oct 14, 2009 Professional Filmographer

Everything was spelled fine except that "Tu ne peux pas a il", which means... nothing XD Literally it means "You can't at he." So I'm confused

But the French "level" in my book isn't that high, but you'd probably find it hard...

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