breathedout: Portrait of breathedout by Leontine Greenberg (Default)
breathedout ([personal profile] breathedout) wrote in [community profile] femslashficlets2019-05-20 12:18 pm

Janelle Monáe Lyrics: "Lorn"

Title: "Lorn" (Read on AO3)
Fandom: Original Work
Pairing: Emma Walsh Thompson/Maisie Thompson Adams
Rating: Mature
Prompt: "Crown on my head but the world on my shoulder"
Word Count: 1000
Tags: Death, Parental Death, grief and mourning, Jealousy, Times of trouble do not bring out the best in some people, Mothers and Daughters, Mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, Grown-up temper tantrums, Imperfect comfort, That awkward moment when you're secretly fucking your brother's wife, and you both have to go hang out with your mother

Summary:
Outside Antigonish, Nova Scotia: June, 1916.

She must only keep hold on herself through the train ride, she thought; and the carriage ride. The train ride; the carriage ride; and then, as she'd done when a child, she might fly to her Mama and be enfolded.