Re: The Hundredth Balloon
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:46 pm
@Ariel: I picture them as siblings, with her being much younger, perhaps a tween while he's obviously old enough to be deployed - probably 17-19. Don't know why but that's how I thought of them.
Annnd, a possible title: "The Balloon Goes Up", it is a phrase that comes from the Great War - *cough* my research is showing again *cough* - when observation balloons (not the same as the ones you wrote about but balloons nonetheless) were sent up as a means to communicate to gunners to begin their fire. It is used, now, to mean the start of something, sometimes things that aren't pleasant. The phrase also /sounds/ positive and hopeful, which I felt the first half captured, and the meaning fits the /latter/ half, much darker. Just a suggestion.
Annnd, a possible title: "The Balloon Goes Up", it is a phrase that comes from the Great War - *cough* my research is showing again *cough* - when observation balloons (not the same as the ones you wrote about but balloons nonetheless) were sent up as a means to communicate to gunners to begin their fire. It is used, now, to mean the start of something, sometimes things that aren't pleasant. The phrase also /sounds/ positive and hopeful, which I felt the first half captured, and the meaning fits the /latter/ half, much darker. Just a suggestion.