I Resist the Muses

It only continues for a time, and eventually the pain is worn away. What remains does not hurt, but it is present inside you.

I can never speak of my first death, for those who killed me. Though I revenged myself for deeds that were evil, it left me ashamed and in torment for reasons I am never going to be able to speak of. I did once, and I cannot again. It is an unbearable agony, to know some of your greatest hurts you cannot speak of, for speaking them, and the truth in them, will only hurt others just as much.



muse: haldir
fandom: tolkien

If you say it is ... I'll believe you. Just give me some hope.

Character: Nathan Petrelli
Fandom: Heroes
Notes: Spoilers S2/Open to response from Heidi only

Character: Celena Ducayne
Fandom: Decay of Dreams; Original Character
Word Count: 209
open for roleplay or comments here

( There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. )

#14 - What Do you Dream about? -Closed
#15 - Mistaken Identity - Closed
#16 - What moment from your life do you wish you could re-live again? - Closed
#17 - What is the best or worst advice you have ever received? - OPEN
#18 - What was your most embarrassing moment? - OPEN
#19 - In your time of need who will you turn to? - OPEN
#21 - "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." - Mayay Angelou - Closed
#22 - Write a letter to your mun - Closed
#23 - Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what do you expect to find when you get there? - Closed

Character: Ray Vecchio
Fandom: due South

Prompt #20 - Lyrics - who do you think of?

Prompt #21 - Stories I won't tell

Prompt #22 - Letter to my mun

Character: Benton Fraser
Fandom: due South

Prompt #20 - Lyrics

Prompt #21 - Untold Story

Prompt #22 - A Letter to my Mun

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." - Maya Angelou

I'll tell you a story, perhaps, if you ask, but it's not one you'll want to hear.

Muse: Victoria Metcalf
Fandom: Due South

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." - Mayay Angelou

There are always the cases that get to you. The ones that got away. I have many of those. Though the cases that get to me the most are the ones that there just seem to be no clues for. The one that no tale can be told to find the suspect. Ones where the victim's families get no peace, no closure. Those are the cases I hate, I do not like not being able to solve a case. Those are the cases that go on the board, the ones some call bottom drawer cases. Ones you hope someday something will help tell those stories. That they finally get their voices heard. So they can finally rest in peace.

Me personally I do not like having to put a case on the board. I'd rather solve every case. No family should have to go without knowing who or even why they had to suffer. Everyone deserves closure.

Gil Grissom // CSI

( Prompt #20 - lyrics )

( Prompt #21 -'There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.' - Mayay Angelou )

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you."
- Maya Angelou


Oh yes there is.

Try reliving them.


Open for comments here.

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." - Maya Angelou

Yes. And no.

There are stories you keep close to your breast because they're your trump cards. Your investment, the thumbscrews you can tighten at will. They're versions of one and the same event or circumstance, and the things you'll omit or stress depend on the person you have in front of you.

Are you serious and honest, always, every day, at every hour? Or do you rather... present different angles of yourself? Think of a story, any story. You tell it to your sister, your father, your lover, your subordinates, your closest friends. You divulge it to your confessor, your bankers, your creditors, your accusers, your defenders. I promise you: you will never tell it the same way twice, for it will change, depending on whom you're addressing.

The one thing that may hurt, from time to time, is that you forget which version was the one closest to the truth, for the pesky thing has grown twisted with each telling.

And then there are stories I've never told anyone because they were unthinkable, unspeakable. Those have changed as well, over time. They've been weathered by hatred, nurtured by fear, seasoned by my anger, and at last, whittled down to nothing, lost the moment they could have taken shape. They don't hurt anymore. Not overly much, I think.

Besides; who should I tell them to.

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." - Maya Angelou

Oh I agree, I do agree. Don't you?
I can help you with that, you know. It's so hard to keep it inside, isn't it?
I can help you let that secret out, pry the ice off your soul and shove you into action. Do something about those terribly burdensome, sneaky little hidden desires.. Go ahead, go on, do it~ Pick up the gun, pick up the keys, pick up that letter not addressed to you and open it, whatever it is, do it. You'll feel better, isn't it better to have these things settled once and for all? Don't suffer, don't keep it inside, you poor poor thing.

... I on the other hand, have nothing left of my own inside, hidden or not. They didn't leave me so much as a name. I wouldn't call it agony, what I feel. I'd call what I'll do to them in return agony and then some.

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." - Maya Angelou


Yeah, well keeping secrets is hard. Especially when your wife is looking at you and you know she knows. And I won't tell her, never. What she thinks happened isn't nearly as bad as what is still happening so I'll leave her with her small hate and put up with the barbs and hostility. Jack, the evil bastard, he thinks its funny. He winds her up every chance he gets. I've told him to stop. The more he winds her up the more she's going to figure out.

She just thinks Jack is covering for my playing around. I'll take that over the truth right now.
The only thing is that Alison isn't stupid. She'll twig eventually and then? I don't know. I just don't know.


Sgt. George Carter
The Sweeney

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." - Mayay Angelou

sorry it's late, Nano ate my brain big time.