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For the prompt Death falls in love with you

Death's Paramour



On the second day – our first date - he brought me flowers. Not dead blooms, not shrivelled black roses, but a bright bouquet. Cut flowers are dead or dying anyway, I suppose, and he told me that he harvested them himself with his scythe, as he harvests souls.

He looked so proud and yet so nervous, and I accepted the blooms with a smile.

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Date: 2015-07-27 04:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bleodswean.livejournal.com
Oh! I just adored this! I really love Personified Death and you've done a great job making this Death both "human" but also the unknowable! You took a surprising path out of classic romance and into deeply thoughtful, your narrator takes control there at the end and it's really a startling and strong intimacy.

Well done!

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