Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: thoughtful
  • Music: Journey, "Faithfully."

It's 1944, and we're going to live forever, and I'm going to marry her someday...

November is halfway gone, and that means it's time for our last stop along the road that runs from Sparrow Hill to the Last Chance Diner. Next month, we reach our destination; next month, old friends come calling, old bills come due, and everything comes to an end (hopefully with a minimum of steaming wreckage). Our year-long journey is finally almost over. But for now...

Issue 59 of The Edge of Propinquity is live, and with it, the eleventh of the Sparrow Hill Road stories is available. "Faithfully" takes us back to Rose Marshall's past, and into the arms of Gary Daniels, the only man she ever loved among the living. But everything that loves dies. Can she help the man who once brought her home find his own way there?

There are a lot of stories trapped and tangled in the twilight. This is only one of them. But it's the one I have to tell.

Welcome to the ghostroads.

Tags: short fiction, sparrow hill road
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  • 33 comments

shiyiya

November 16 2010, 15:46:55 UTC 6 years ago

Cried my eyes out. You're amazing.

seanan_mcguire

November 16 2010, 15:47:21 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you.

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seanan_mcguire

November 16 2010, 15:51:01 UTC 6 years ago

1) I couldn't fix that if it were universal; I have no control over the website at all, and that's a site error, not a link error.

2) The link works just fine for me.

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silvertwi

6 years ago

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vixyish

6 years ago

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Simply beautiful.

maverick_weirdo

November 16 2010, 16:04:06 UTC 6 years ago

I cried from begining to end. Thank You

Re: Simply beautiful.

seanan_mcguire

November 17 2010, 18:02:41 UTC 6 years ago

Very welcome.

dornbeast

November 16 2010, 16:39:22 UTC 6 years ago

I knew some of this was going to happen. But that last part confused me for a moment, then a 200-watt light bulb came on.

It's what I should have expected to happen, I didn't expect it to happen, and it's so damn perfect.

seanan_mcguire

November 17 2010, 18:02:48 UTC 6 years ago

Yay!

amazon_syren

November 16 2010, 17:01:32 UTC 6 years ago

You keep making me cry with these things. I tell ya... :-)

seanan_mcguire

November 17 2010, 18:02:59 UTC 6 years ago

That means I win.

nightshade_03

November 16 2010, 18:55:25 UTC 6 years ago

That was an awesome one. I feel like I'm going to cry, lol, it's just so ahhhh. The fact that even when she gets him she doesn't get to keep *him*. Man, bittersweet. And I love that even though we've only had short glimpses of Gary from the earlier chapters in this one he still feels like a solid character and the flashbacks/his POVs doesn't feel weird or out of place. I think this might be my favourite chapter so far.


Just one thing, she said that any family close enough to her to pull her back has already died, I thought she had a brother who was still alive? Bethany's grandfather?

dornbeast

November 16 2010, 21:49:53 UTC 6 years ago

After re-reading part seven, she does have a brother, and he is still alive.

However, it's possible that "close enough" refers to ties of the heart, and that when Arthur Marshall calls for somebody to guide him, it won't be Rose.

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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markbernstein

November 16 2010, 19:25:37 UTC 6 years ago

* pauses to wipe away the tears, then smiles, ever so slightly *

I cannot wait to see those two give Bobby Cross the ass-kicking he deserves.

seanan_mcguire

November 18 2010, 15:28:19 UTC 6 years ago

Damn straight.

saoba

November 16 2010, 19:48:35 UTC 6 years ago

Oh. I has a happy shiver nao. Thank you.

seanan_mcguire

November 18 2010, 15:28:26 UTC 6 years ago

Very welcome.

Before I go read the story -

ladyqkat

November 16 2010, 20:05:44 UTC 6 years ago

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yellowblackhaze

November 16 2010, 22:42:43 UTC 6 years ago

I only just discovered the hours of time wasting that is lolcats. Cats with thumbs are a truly terrifying prospect.

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seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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kyrielle

November 17 2010, 00:39:10 UTC 6 years ago

*crying* Oh. My.

seanan_mcguire

November 18 2010, 15:28:40 UTC 6 years ago

:)

vincentursus

November 17 2010, 01:30:55 UTC 6 years ago

Allow me to join the tears and sniffles crowd.

That was beautiful.

Thank you.

seanan_mcguire

November 18 2010, 15:28:50 UTC 6 years ago

Very welcome, and thank you.

kyleri

November 17 2010, 04:21:38 UTC 6 years ago

...I appear to be crying like a little girl.

Thank you.

seanan_mcguire

November 18 2010, 15:28:56 UTC 6 years ago

Very welcome.

maggs_07

November 17 2010, 05:03:31 UTC 6 years ago

I read this short story last night and hoped you would post something about it so I could comment somewhere less out of place than your cd reviews. I cried, smiled, and the cried while smiling through this story. And I must confess I'm a bit teary eyed still thinking about what a beautiful stop this was along the road for Rose. Thank you for this story.

seanan_mcguire

November 18 2010, 15:29:21 UTC 6 years ago

And believe me, I'm very, very appreciative that you did, since it makes keeping track of comments infinitely easier. I'm really glad you liked it.

ellie101

November 17 2010, 10:33:27 UTC 6 years ago

This last chapter had me crying. :( Love can be so beautiful and sad. The song was a beautiful pairing for such a wonderful chapter.

seanan_mcguire

November 18 2010, 15:29:27 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you.

sirriamnis

November 22 2010, 18:02:36 UTC 6 years ago

And this is me crying at my desk. That was wonderful.

seanan_mcguire

November 23 2010, 15:22:42 UTC 6 years ago

Aw.

Thank you.

Rose will help you clean all the things.