Temerity
What did Temerity smell like? Temerity smelled of the tormented figure of a man in a cloud of alcohol and cigarette smoke, of earth wet with the blood of a friendly opposition, and of the tears of the young lover who's heart was cleaved in two by a woman engaged to his closest childhood companion. And what did Temerity taste like, you might wonder? It tasted of the first drought of a fine wine turned into the seventh, and of an enchantress's poison on the broken hearted's tongue. Furthermore, I ask you what Temerity might sound like. It sounded of senseless quarrel, of a cry for war, of a piece of china shattered and trampled, but what do I know of Temerity save for this one final defining quality? What did Temerity look like? Temerity looked like the crackling blaze of a musket firing blindly into the night, of a revolutionary with his hair a mess and his eyes blinding with the fire of his passion, and lastly Temerity looked like a man with a love letter in one hand and the nose of a gun pressed to the side of his head. And that is how Temerity looked, smelled, and sounded.

-Lauren Hatch
September 2007