Fall is Ours

[Joey Delgado]

Fall is our time, a time for storytellers.

Let the Winter be for The Pious to kneel before their chosen alters, for the Redemptive Dreamers to stare out frosty windows at snow covered gardens, cursing what lies beneath, wondering if by this time next year snow will be falling on prettier roses. 

Fine, let Spring be for Lovers, for those whose lives are rarely touched by loneliness, for the cake-topper couples who make love on pillows of sugary buttercream, for the helicopter mothers and fathers-to-be whose unborn children are already better than yours.

The Wild Ones are Summer's children, the bikini-clad goddesses whose skin turns to gold when touched by sunlight, the muscle men who dance under pulsing strobes, the lustful, the drunken, the loud.

Ah, but Fall, Fall is when smoke from a dying campfire rises from embers glowing red and curls around the Storyteller's face hiding a shit-eating grin, when we take our prey by the hand, walk them through a midnight carnival under showers of stars and spinning galaxies, and shove them into a funhouse maze of smoke and mirrors.

And wouldn't you know, my dears, it's Fall, and now is the time to reap, to let our pens be our scythes, to cut at the lives of the others--The Pious, The Dreamers, The Lovers, The Wild Ones--and mold them into something beautiful, something grotesque, mold them into whatever we want because, hell, we are The Storytellers, Fall is ours, and it's harvest time. 

[Bill Floyd]

Outstanding.  Your personification of each of the seasons is spot on.  Writers are ever the ugly ones at the dance, eh?  Love the wind up, where you exhort us to loose our scythes.  Off with their heads!  

[Joey Delgado]

@Kaylynn: Yes! I feel exactly the same way as about Autumn!
@Will: Thanks you ver much!
@Bolton: You are a writer and therefore are very much a Fall person!! :)

[Will]

Very nice!! I was amazed at the imagery you evoke.

[Kaylynn Phillips-Temple]

Favorited this! Absolutely great work, Joey. Fall is most definitely my favorite time of year as well. I also am a lover of spring, but the fall just holds something different for me altogether. I feel like it's almost the time of year where leaves and plants begin to die or change colors...and everything gets a whole new second chance at beginning again. Love it. Keep em coming.

[Joey Delgado]

Thank you guys! Fall is definitely my favorite time of year.
Gita: Can't wait for the Halloween stories! Hope you have some of your own brewing.
Jamie: It is a rallying cry! Looking forward to reading your stuff.
Stephen: Haha! No way! I've been to several spring weddings. So much smiling, so much buttercream.

[Stephen Torelli]

I remember when I baked wedding cakes and decorated them with buttercream, and Spring was the season, yet Autumn is the time for tall tales and I'm looking forward to the "Halloween storytelling." And I agree with all that was said... excellently written, Joey.

[Jamie Hogan]

Hmm. Perhaps.

[Gita]

Let the Halloween storytelling begin!  You and Mr. Floyd perhaps?

[Jamie Hogan]

A rallying cry! And a damn fine one. I like your choices for the owners of the seasons, especially Summer. Seems like people wait through the other seasons determining ways they can get out more skin - whether they should or not - when it turns warm.

[bolton carley]

this is amazing and gorgeous.  the cake toppers for spring?  and the pious?  i'm more a summer girl but certainly not wild or bikini-clad, but i really want to be of fall now.  i want my chance at the midnight carnival.  

seriously, this is excellent.  it's so well-written and so detailed and so unique in its approach.  well done!