The Flamepetal by Angel

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Fandom: Star Wars
Pairing: Original legend to mirror the implied Han/Luke
Link: The Flamepetal
Author's Website: Lady Angel's Den of Debauchery
Author on LJ: valarltd

Why this must be read:

This is a Club Story, a form not often done these days. Bored on the long Hoth night, the rebels turn to old stories for entertainment. Han gets tapped to provide the tale. He gives an interestingly ambiguous myth of how the Corellian Flamepetal tree came to be.

"Of all the trees on Corllia, the flamepetal is the strangest
and most beautiful. It is always two trunks, growing side by side
and twining together. It produces two colors of flower, one from
each trunk. The flowers as large as a man's cupped hands, and each
petal is shaped like a tongue of flame. They bloom through the
summer and the smell is sweet and strong. Lovers, bondmates
and friends give them as tokens of eternal faithfulness."

Comments

[corbeaun.livejournal.com]

This is an extremely lyrical story, reminds me of a certain fairytale I had read before but have now forgotten. Tried looking on the author's website, but it doesn't exactly say what a Club Story is. Can someone help?

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

A Club Story is when a bunch of people sitting around in a room (usually a Victorian Gentleman's club) decide to start telling each other stories.

The form itself is as old as The Canturbury Tales and reached its peak in the Victorian Era, when the inmdividual stories could be serialized and sold (often as penny dreadfuls).

Stephen King's "The Breathing Method" in his book Different Seasons is a club story.

I'm glad you liked it. It's supposed to read like a half-remembered fairy-tale and borrows heavily from the language, but the closest it's based on is the Legend of St. George and the Dragon.