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I believe I'm still in time? (Also that 'any fandom' really does mean 'any fandom'? Because this was what came into my mind from the prompt.)

Title: Time No Longer
Fandom: Tom’s Midnight Garden
Rating: All ages
Length: 100 words
Content notes: Spoilers for a moment towards the end of the book?
Author notes: None, apart from, yes, I do mean Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce.
Summary: Time gave Tom something special; now time has taken it away .

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The clock that had given him that secret, extra hour for so long now only ticked on, marking ordinary, pointless time. Tom listened to it, uncaring; letting misery swamp him. It didn’t matter that he couldn’t truly lose an hour that had never existed. He had. The grandfather clock hadn’t struck thirteen today, his last day. He could never see his garden in the moonlight again – or Hatty. Everything had gone. Time had played unfair tricks.

No more magic, and Hatty hadn’t heard him call. She was a ghost; he’d known that all along, and ghosts were dead, weren’t they?

Comments

[identity profile] sprat.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 11th, 2012 04:22 am (UTC)
I haven't read the book, but I admire people who can make a story happen in so few words. This is great. :D
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit wrote:
Feb. 11th, 2012 04:46 pm (UTC)
Aw, thank you. It's very sweet of you to have taken the trouble to read my obscure drabble! (I was in two minds whether or not to post, and then thought I might as well as not.)
[identity profile] sprat.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 11th, 2012 05:37 pm (UTC)
Well, I'm glad you decided to post! Your drabble (and the others I've seen this round) made me want to try to write one myself. Writing has been difficult for me lately, but I think 100 words might be possible. :D
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit wrote:
Feb. 12th, 2012 05:36 pm (UTC)
Aw, yes, you should give it a go. Drabbles are quite a good way to get back into writing, especially with prompts to start from. I like to think of them as sharpening the pencils of my mind. Or something. :-)
[identity profile] belantana.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2012 01:45 am (UTC)
Look at you ficcing all over my flist while I've been away! Including in sneaky unexpected places which are not your own journal. Ahhh, this is wonderfully sad, and such a rich mood created from so few words.

(I have finally placed the obscure images that come into my head whenever you mention Tom's Midnight Garden... unfortunately they're not from the actual book/show, but from John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat. Whoops.)
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2012 04:38 pm (UTC)
:lol: It's been a better week or so, really, so I've been able to type up some snippets. I couldn't make up my mind whether or not to bother posting this to my LJ. And there was a [livejournal.com profile] b7friday double drabble, too. I got a bit tired again and I don't want to annoy everyone with tiny fic. But, yes, I am sneaky, ha. ;-)

But thank you. :-) And, well, that's Bob Graham, isn't it? Bob Graham is also pretty cool. (Does that mean you haven't read it? If you haven't read Tom's Midnight Garden, then I definitely recommend it - it's one of the best children's books ever written, and about time and memory in a way that's quite lovely. If you have, then you'll know that already.)
[identity profile] belantana.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 19th, 2012 12:45 pm (UTC)
I have not! I'll see if my library has it; I've already been raiding the children's section quite a lot. :D
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[personal profile] elen_nare wrote:
Feb. 21st, 2012 06:45 pm (UTC)
I love, love, love that you wrote Tom's Midnight Garden fanfic! I think it's the only one I've ever seen... And it's fantastic. Poor Tom, I feel so sorry for him here - he's not just lost an hour, he's lost all the magic of that extra hour.
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit wrote:
Feb. 22nd, 2012 10:14 am (UTC)
Aw, thank you! I'm sure there's something somewhere - there usually is - but when I posted it to the AO3 collection for this comm, I had to make up all the tags, so there's nothing else there, at least! I suppose it's so complete in itself, really.

And, yes, I hadn't even read it for years, but the challenge instantly made me think of that moment - and I had to fish my copy back out and drabble. :-)

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