Star Husband, Chapter 3

[rthstewart]

Obviously, I need a month's vacation at the beach in order to regain my writing productivity. I'm still not as fast as I used to be but gosh it's wonderful to write again.  I just posted Chapter 3 of the Star Husband.

BUT... That story had always supposed to be 3 chapters, ending with Jill and Eustace in an AU vision in the early 1950s. However, things have happened and my thinking has changed and now I'll be adding a fourth chapter, ominously titled Further Up and Further In and, well, it's not what I expected, it's not I intended 10 years ago when I started this amazing journey but it's where I've decided to end up after receiving enormous insight and assistance from readers WHO STILL STOP BY and leave amazing comments after all this time.

Star Husband is now firmly in TSG and where Star Husband goes is where TSG ends up, though these last two chapters are told from Eustace and Jill's far more narrow viewpoint.  The final chapter 4 is about half done.  But eek, really need to get started on my Narnia Fic Exchange. 

So, if you are still there and still care, do let me know what you think!  Each chapter of this story is wildly different from the other.  I'd never thought I'd learn so much from the Mi'kmaq legend that I first read 3 years ago in Halifax.  But that's really a metaphor for this whole journey for me.  Thank you!

The Star Husband (23642 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 3/4
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Polly Plummer, Lucy Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole, Digory Kirke, Peter Pevensie
Additional Tags: Native American/First Nations Culture
Series: Part 9 of The Stone Gryphon
Summary:

There are many stories about the love between humans and stars told in the folklore of the Mi'kmaq, a First Nations people indigenous to Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec. Over 25 years and three visits to the Fossil Cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia, Polly, Lucy, Eustace and Jill all hear the Mi'kmaq tale of the Star Husband. As happens, each hears the same story and takes away a different understanding.

Part of the Stone Gryphon story cycle.

Here's Scrubb's Willys Wagon.
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Comments

[watersword]

I'm so excited to read this tonight.

[brokenallbroken]

Me too!!

[rthstewart]

Thank you! As I said to watersword, it's not for everyone and I know that. I'm just super happy that I got something posted.

[rthstewart]

Thank you. It's not for everyone, I know! Not everyone is invested as I am! But I"m glad I got something up!

[autumnia]

Can't wait to read this! (Though I think I'll have to go back and start from the beginning as a refresher...)

[rthstewart]

Thank you so much for reading!