One Life - Furnished in Early Moorcock

by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell

An albino prince announces his sword is called Stormbringer, and slurps souls up, a boy writing. A princess then offers her life, so the boy could gain strength, but he claims to not want it like this. So, the princess shows her chesticles and points where her heart would be, so he could give it to her, this being as far as the growing boy'd gotten. He hadn't bothered continuing, since after he'd been put ahead a grade, it wasn't worth writing 1 story past 12 months.

He's now 12 and tantalized still by the topic of his story, and its title. At 9, he'd read the source of his story, Stormbringer, he discovering 2 more related novels, then discovering the semi-related books, but they not quite as good as the original Elric's. Richard, the boy mused on finishing his story and publishing it in a magazine, but not wanting to upset the author Moorcock. As Richard muses on his sketch in class, a boy comes in to inform him of his schedule changing, having him playing football, now.

Richard tied with another boy on being the most unorganized, feeling like he lived on a different plain as everyone. He hates school sport participation, never making an effort to win or score. Showers and baths were also an annoyance, the coach yelling with coordination of boys going into showers then baths. When coach wasn't eyeballing them, an older boy played with his cock openly, Richard ignoring this. besides this, he'd learned his family's butler's sigy for useful mo's, he hating the man, and after showering, gets back to his novel reading.

Richard is then bothered by an adult-sized boy hassling him about his school tie, and nearly choking him. As he's losing oxygen, he sees a strange man down the walkway, the stone coming up to meet him. Richard then discovers himself next to a Sandman-looking fella, he seeing him as Elric, asking if he'd been serious about wanting to accompany heroes, but Richard not making the cut, seeing Elric's eyes looking like a previous bunny pet's, he asking Elric as he left what he could do, then entering a temple and sampling lives, getting further away from his own. He travels for thousands of years and lives gratifying lives.

Then, he feels like he's been tugged from life, and as he resurfaces, becomes annoyed with having thought this'd been long, since done with, the boy who'd tightened his tie, looking scared for almost killing him, and apologizing repeatedly, then taking him to the nurse with a false story making him look the hero. After seeing the nurse, who gave him an aspirin, then to the principal, where he was made to let it go, Richard ends up apologizing for wasting the man's time, apparently. Richard then describes the school priest doubling as the biology teacher, the mad having taken his class of 15 yr olds and 12 yr old Richard to his home where he cut apart a bunny and pumped its bladder til it exploded. He also took bar mitzvah lessons with his cousins who'd boast of eating burgers to each other, Richard not bothering with the chicken stew at school anymore what with finding a rabbit's foot in his bowl, sticking with bread n buttah.

1 time, he calls the operator to see if Moorcock's # was available, it wasn't. He keeps track of all the books he'd read of his, the few he couldn't locate, ordered from the back of the book, courtesy of papa, also discovering Moorcock's death. Details of Elric's companion is given, he being the light-hearted soul to Elric's wearied 1, this also being when Richard's sexuality was awakening and he'd dreamed he'd gotten with a girl and orgasms came from the heart (how sweet). When he read 1 of his barbaric novels in school church, he felt oddly righteous, his weekdays catering to the Christian God and his nights filled with his myth-based variety of everything else.

Narnia'd gotten kicked out recently, when he'd uncovered its allegory and didn't like feeling the author was being slick. Moorcock felt real, he not trying to pull a fast 1, in Richard's view, he addicted, but never having paid the extra quarter for his book, not purchasing anymore books through post. For some reason, Richard'd also been brought into plenty of kids' confidences, knowing forgotten secrets, like the spot boys and girls flashed their nethers at each other. Mac, his buddy mentions how good and evil angels living on your shoulders truly worked, he then asking if Richard had ever handled an adults cock, he fresh off of hearing this nonsense from the biology preacher, Richard vehemently spouting to the negative, esp. since he hadn't gotten to doing it to himself, yet.

Sometimes boys at school did it communally, Mac then offering a chance to join the exclusive religious chat group they had going for bio teacher's o's. Richard declines for Jewishness, this not mattering ofc, but he then mentioning his newfound Moorcock and offering it once he finished. Richard was soon imagining confining Moorchock to tell him his writing secrets, thinking it had to do with the forgotten temple and annoyance at returning, he believing there had to be an actual place where the ideas sprung. Half a year later, his bud Mac is reading with him whilst they wait for him to get picked up, he asking Mac if he knew his career path, Mac going with being a writer like Moorcock or T.H. White, and whilst Richard'd have said the same if Mac hadn't beaten him to it, he went with a wolf, during the important times at night.

The 2 continue to wait as life begins to truly start with adulthood. A preview of Stormbringer with Elric and his love Zarozinia, and as crazy war is threatening, he discovers the horn from an older era, and would hopefully have him gain possession of Stormbringer. Another win from Gaiman, I do wish I had more to read of this story, but it was entertaining with its briefness, regardless.