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altariel ([personal profile] altariel) wrote2011-05-26 09:23 am
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Work-Life Balance

He will be late again for dinner.

Work-Life Balance

Minas Tirith, in the Fourth Age

He will be late again for dinner. It cannot be helped. Tomorrow morning the council meets, and he has not touched those papers yet. Across the room his daughter prowls. Recently she has been watching every scratch of his pen, every forkful of food.

“Out with it,” he says, at last.

“You never do anything for yourself! You should… you should find yourself a hobby!”

She is beautiful, on the cusp of womanhood. Fierce as her mother on his account. His life’s work: leaving her the world he never had.

“I already have a hobby, blackbird. I call it Gondor.”

[identity profile] azalaisdep.livejournal.com 2011-06-07 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
[whistles nonchalantly - the packing did get done, somehow!]

I've never read Cricket Term - we don't have it at work for some reason and I don't think the county library has it either, though I must check that...

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-06-07 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Not one of the ones reprinted by Girls Gone By, alas, and even the paperbacks are going for silly money now (£30+).