Foreword
"So," the girl said. "Why did you come?"
Her words were another blind shot into the dark and silence of the night. The boy beside her hadn't uttered a word since he came. She, on the other hand, had said plenty. She knew this. Still, she waited for his reply.
A beat passed, and then two.
The girl had finished sewing, and lifted her head up to find that the previously struggling shadow beneath the boy's feet had finally calmed. The boy was looking at it, too, staring at it as it remained still the way shadows ought to be. And then he turned towards the girl.
When he spoke, it took her by surprise. Where the boy had stood proud and sure, seeming to have no ounce of care in his playful almost liquid sort of grace, his voice had betrayed the faintest note of an excitement unbridled.
"I came to listen to the stories," he said.
It was almost a whisper. There was almost a smile.
And when he reached out a hand to take hers later that night, off to where adventures awaited them, the first words the boy had spoken to her were the ones that the girl would then remember. For she was a storyteller, and theirs was a story waiting to be told.
a brief reimagining of Disney's Peter Pan - a take on Peter Pan & Wendy Darling's first meeting
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I wrote this piece in December 2017. It served as an introduction to a month-long creative experimental series on Wendystruck; the beginning of a creative venture where I took on the role of Wendy Darling, the storyteller from Peter Pan.
This written piece has since become something even more meaningful to me - in the same way that the name Wendystruck, coined from the combination of wonderstruck and a name that resembles my own, now instead carries the notion that this is a space for me to turn my ever-present childlike wonder into meaningful written pieces and to fully embrace the role of Wendy, the storyteller.
It is fitting, then, for this piece to serve as a foreword to Wendystruck; as an invitation to you, who, one way or another, have come for the stories. I invite you to these ones and hope that through my storybook, you can reflect back on your owns and look forward to the stories that come to you with hope, with faith-
This written piece has since become something even more meaningful to me - in the same way that the name Wendystruck, coined from the combination of wonderstruck and a name that resembles my own, now instead carries the notion that this is a space for me to turn my ever-present childlike wonder into meaningful written pieces and to fully embrace the role of Wendy, the storyteller.
It is fitting, then, for this piece to serve as a foreword to Wendystruck; as an invitation to you, who, one way or another, have come for the stories. I invite you to these ones and hope that through my storybook, you can reflect back on your owns and look forward to the stories that come to you with hope, with faith-
- with love,
Iween
Iween
