How do we know what stories we should never tell?

mel·an·chol·y

   [mel-uhn-kol-ee]  Show IPAnoun, plural -chol·ies, adjective

–noun

1.

a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual orprolonged; depression.

2.

sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.

3.

Archaic .

a.

the condition of having too much black bile, consideredin ancient and medieval medicine to cause gloominessand depression.

b.

black bile.

–adjective

4.

affected with, characterized by, or showing melancholy;mournful; depressed: a melancholy mood.

5.

causing melancholy or sadness; saddening: a melancholyoccasion.

6.

soberly thoughtful; pensive.

            I want to make the most beautiful thing in the world. Something too utterly heart wrenching, beautiful and meaningless. A reminder that things happen and magic exists and there are predators, and people break, and people die. There is no reason and the logic is simple- we will all die. The Melancholy is a state of mind, as much as it is a place, and a feeling. The calm sadness, the all to sober realization that you feel alone. It comes in waves, the smell of fresh earth, a shiver down you spine, the moment you realize you've fallen out of love.

          I don't know whether to call this a story, a journey, or an explanation. Maybe it qualifies as all of those things. This book is dedicated to the person who suffers this madness with me.


-A