where i'll always love you

i got a last minute opportunity to submit to a tinker bell artwork collection, and quickly put together a shoot with my uber talented friend, actor/writer/femme vivant, jacqueline wright.  jacqueline contributed writing to my magazine last year, on page 22, and i'm well on my way to exploiting her many other talents.  

i hadn't seen peter pan in many years, but i remembered that tink had a dark side - a murderous, vindictive, jealous dark side - and, naturally, that's what i was drawn to.   after some brief research, i found out that, because of her size, tinker bell is capable of housing only one emotion at a time.  anger isn't tempered by compassion, irritation isn't curbed by tolerance.  next time i'm PMS'ing, maybe i'll just explain that i'm a magical fairy.

some choice quotes from the novel:

“There is a saying in the Neverland that, every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.”
(this one is reminiscent of one of my favorite jack handey quotes, “It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, an angel gets set on fire.”)

“You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”

and the coup de grace:

Peter Pan:  Why did you have to go for so long?
Tinker Bell:  You never gave me a reason to come back. I was always there when you needed me but I guess you never showed how important I am in your life. Now it's different and now we've changed, but I'm still smiling. 
Peter Pan:  Why?
Tinker Bell:  I myself don't know the reason. It's just that now, IT'S YOUR TURN TO MISS ME. 

tink tests.