Comments on 'A Part Of Addison'Addison watches the crow chisel C-L-A-Y-T-O-N into the headstone with it's beak and he marvels at the small bird's resilient power. Worry creeps in as the bird bashes away at the rock. Each hard impact loosens the beak and chips it, nicking the edges.
Fragments form into larger pieces, falling off, but the crow remains steadfast -- smashing the stone at an unrelenting pace.
"Stop." Addison moves toward the crow. "You're hurting yourself." He says as he reaches to restrain his sleekly feathered friend.
The beak breaks off with a swift and crushful force. It's whole face implodes in a crumble like a condemned skyscraper made of pottery. Pieces of the crow unexpectedly liquify and evaporate in a quick sizzle -- a wavy mirage of heat rises, capturing Addison's eyes, and dissipates to reveal his own hands holding the chisel and hammer where the crow had once been. It's he who has been chiseling all along.
_The crow is merging with me,_ Addison realizes in a pause.
2008-05-16T15:36:35Zhttp://ficlets.com/feed/story/30450Comment on A Part Of Addison<p>First of all, I love the Celtics update on your profile. Secondly, I’ll have to go back and read this series, because the imagery and concept here was well executed. Great ficlet!</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30450?basename=627462008-05-16T15:36:35Zthebetweenspacehttp://ficlets.com/authors/thebetweenspaceComment on A Part Of Addison<p>Oh no, I can’t accept that comment blusparrow, but I really can’t talk smack until the Celtics make it to the eastern conference finals. Well, yes I can, boo pistons, GO CELTICS . lol</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30450?basename=625502008-05-15T20:09:48ZTad Winslowhttp://ficlets.com/authors/tjdComment on A Part Of Addison<p>btw I saw your info, Go Pistions! =D</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30450?basename=623962008-05-15T01:30:17ZBlusparrowhttp://ficlets.com/authors/blusparrowComment on A Part Of Addison<p>hmmm, so I had it right? woot! I like how he came to the realization that what the crow was thinking was actually in the back of his mind all along.<br />LoA</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30450?basename=623952008-05-15T01:29:47ZBlusparrowhttp://ficlets.com/authors/blusparrowComment on A Part Of Addison<p>Well, the crow has always been a part of addison, but he hasn’t been totally aware of that (as Never Explain eluded to), I think what I was hinting at is that he is finally beginning to understand his relationship with the crow and himself and how it is a communicative tool to interact with the scarecrow—that is yet to be fully developed however.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30450?basename=623662008-05-14T23:54:05ZTad Winslowhttp://ficlets.com/authors/tjdComment on A Part Of Addison<p>Hmm…so now the crow, though always a part of Addison, has now totally merged with him. Does that mean that his worries and misgivings about his scarecrow friend are totally gone? That’s what the imagery here seems to say to me.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30450?basename=623192008-05-14T21:07:13ZStovohobohttp://ficlets.com/authors/stovohoboComment on A Part Of Addison<p>wow i love this story. I like the imagery. Some of the story made me laugh. Like him beating the stone with his face. too funny. The ending totally caught me by surprise.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30450?basename=622122008-05-14T03:45:13ZApostrophe http://ficlets.com/authors/murphyrose27Comment on A Part Of Addison<p>Amazing imagery here. I’ve only read the last two entries in this series, but they’ve been great. I really need to go catch up. Awesome job, really.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30450?basename=622092008-05-14T03:29:25ZJohn Perkinshttp://ficlets.com/authors/johnperkins21