the train wreck

The whole time I was talking to my mom on our usual Saturday morning phone call, the image of a train wreck kept creeping in my mind. How to use this symbol in my story.

Darcy is the train! Or is he the conductor? mmmm. The passengers are the ones hurt by the wreck which was the fault of the conductor? Which passengers go unscathed, which are mangled and which are dead. There is always a dead person in a train wreck.

No don't go yelling at my blog. Dead does not necessarily mean not breathing. Of course it does mean that but it is also a symbol for a loss so significant the person or object is dead. For instance, if someone where to hurt me severely, I would say - He is dead to me although he very much eats and drinks and breaths and what not. When I lost my project due to a new executive, my job was dead to me for quite awhile. My life seemed gray even though it was sunny summer. Yes, dead comes in many varieties. So lets return to my story.

Darcy is the conductor (and you will chuckle in the next chapter) - he manages everything: Georgiana, the alliance, Bingley, Rawlings trip to America, Blake getting involved in business and having to deal with the political aspects, Kent - ah! How has Darcy managed Kent? Perhaps the shoe is on the other foot or neither conducts the others life! Perhaps, the devil of an author has yet to reveal exactly how Darcy manages Kent. but soon the truth will come out and I will be anxious to read the comments when it does.

So the Darcy train is clack clack clacking down the track. It has a destination but does the conductor know where he is taking his trainful of men and women? mmmm. I think he knows he is moving forward but there is a sharp curve ahead. He cannot see the fallen rocks and fallen trees that lay upon the track. Ahh. A train wreck. Yes and soon our dear boy will be turning that corner. Will he survive? Will his friends? Will any woman get her man? Will Rawlings return from America to pull the rocks off the mangled passengers? Will Gayle tell anything?

No. Just keep reading. Thanks, Melda for the symbol.

the devil: Gayle