Writer's Choice! "The left hand of darkness affair"

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Originally posted for Carabele's HOWDOWE challenge for 'international left-handers day'...who'da thought such a holiday existed?  This story finds Napoleon and Illya baby sitting the future bride of a distant relation to the Prince consort to the queen of the Netherlands.  Unexpected aggravation and surprises ensue.
This particular story led to some interesting research, and those of you familiar with my stories know I love to add that touch of realism to my stories by using history as the backdrop.  Here I stretch things a wee bit.  Hope you enjoy reading or re-reading the story.  Comments are most welcome here!


https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8428188/1/The-Left-Hand-of-Darkness-Affair

or if you prefer:

http://section7mfu.livejournal.com/97271.html

                                                         

                                                            "The Left Hand of Darkness Affair"

                                                                         

Comments

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

Another one I hadn't read yet and such a treat for a Saturday afternoon. You really did put a lot of research into this wonderful tale.

ps. My sister is left handed. She has worked in the bar trade for the last 17 years. About ten years ago, I bought her a left-handed corkscrew from the Left-Handed Store for this particular holiday. She has taken it to every bar she's run ever since.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Cool! Glad you liked it! It was time to get away from Halloween, even though it's Samhain!

My late brother was a lefty, as are some of my cousins...oddly my mom and her 3 sisters each had only one child who was left handed, yet none of them was left handed nor was my dad or my Uncles.

I pulled a joke on my Irish teacher years ago, who was a lefty. He'd taken one of my tin whistle workshops but was having problems 'getting it.' (the man is obsessive about mastering things) He's always pulling jokes on us so I decided to get him for once. So when he was complaining about his troubles learning the instrument I asked him to let me see his tin whistle.

I told him "Well there's your problem, you have a right-handed whistle. You need to get one for lefties." People at the table knew I was pulling his leg and went along with it as there's no such thing as a right or left-handed penny whistle. I had him going for weeks. Payback, as he'd pulled some rotten (but funny jokes) on me! LOL!

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

That's just evil, though obviously deserved, LOL. My sister and my Mam's sister are the only lefties in our family.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Oh he deserved it as he had a 'wicked' sense of humor and could lie right to your face and not crack a smile. (he was a lawyer btw, so that says a lot right there) One time he had us convinced that his wife had backed over his little daughter with the car, and for the longest time he had people, when we first met him as our teacher, convinced his wife was in an "iron lung." Bad, so bad.

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

I wave a twisted sense of humour, but those things just aren't funny. What a strange man.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he has a dry and strange sense of humor. We all have his number now so he does't pull those sort of jokes on us anymore. He's slowing up in is old age. lol!

[lindafishes8.livejournal.com]

Another terrific story! Well done.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thank you thank you! Wow you're catching up aren't you? I enjoyed doing the research for this particular story. The title is after one of my favorite authors....Ursula K. LeGuin.