EpicFic!

[changeling]

It was called Rome still, in this universe.

That's where people went wrong. They assumed that just because the two boys were twins, they were the same. Remus was never as competitive.

It was Romulus who started the stupid fight. He didn't feel like he'd earned anything until he'd wrested it from his brother's hands, so when it came to naming the new city, it was back to their old boyish wrestling games.

It wasn't Remus' fault that his brother's head had struck the rock with such force. Remus tried to stop the bleeding, but it was no good. He had lost his twin.

He named the city after his brother. It was the least he could do.

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This comes partly due to people writing "alternate universes" where Remus won and so Rome is called Reme. Like, how original! *vomits*

It's only around 118 words long. I am so master of the stupidlyshort!fic.

Comments

[painispretty.livejournal.com]

Whee! Excellent premise!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*grins* Thanks.

Maybe it'll go somewhere else; who knows. I do have 2,500 words due for short story in a couple of weeks...

[cabell.livejournal.com]

OMG, I love it.

When I think Reme, I think Christopher Stasheff and Her Majesty's Wizard, which I read when I was a kid--10, maybe? Anyway, definitely time for a change, and this is just great.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Hee! Exactly!

I reread the beginning of that recently. I'm pretty sure it's not the only offender, though. I would have read that in at least one other book, I'm sure.

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

I've been keeping an eye on the trailers, and I think that maybe the bit below the waterline is black, maybe painted with pitch to protect the wood or something, I dunno.

I forget whether the black hulls were supposed to be all the way up or not. Did it mention it in the Iliad?

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

It calls them the "black-hulled" ships in the Iliad.

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know.
But does it ever say that ALL of the hull is black?
Or what it's black with?
Hmm.

[seekrit-dreams.livejournal.com]

I've friended you. This is not a personal journal but one created for tracking a project I'm doing for a mutual friend of ours. If you go look at the first post on this journal, it has all the details.