Sometimes it's meant just for two or even oneself alone. Sometimes it's too big to hold inside. Whether it's yours or another's, an honor to keep safe or a burden that eats away at you, a secret has the power to change things irrevocably if it becomes known.
The theme for Lights on Park Ave Round 64 is secrets.
Here are the prompts:
A quote about keeping things secret from oneself and God from "Brasília" by Clarice Lispector
Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs - Frederic William Burton
Connie and Oliver discuss their affair in Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre's Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022)
Robbie realizes that he gave Briony the wrong love/apology letter for Cecilia, which Briony reads without permission and misinterprets, ruining Robbie and Cecilia's lives, in Joe Wright's Atonement
A line about the vastness of someone's interiority being too big to speak aloud from A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
616 Tony confesses to Steve's body that he had accepted what his actions would cost him except it wasn't worth it because the one thing he couldn't live with, Steve's death, happened
Mo-wan visits Angkor Wat after circumstances force Li-zhen and him apart and, unable to tell anyone about their relationship, whispers into a hole in the wall that he seals with dirt in In the Mood for Love
Lyubov talks about being unable to conceal her feelings for her former lover, whom she can't live without despite his terrible treatment of her, in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
"Four Evasions" - Margaret Atwood
Kat discovers that Patrick was paid to date her in 10 Things I Hate About You
Mary finds the key to the secret garden and a hidden door behind a tapestry to the abandoned parts of her uncle's manor in Agnieszka Holland's The Secret Garden (1993)
A quote about the weight of a secret anger from Places I've Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown
"Sonnet XVII" - Pablo Neruda
"Bone Burying" - Andrea Gibson
Oto, a screenwriter, tells her husband her idea for a story where a girl wants to know everything about her first love while remaining a mystery herself in Hamaguchi Ryusuke's Drive My Car
Arthur admits to Nayoung that sometimes he feels there's a whole world inside her that he can't follow her to when she dreams in Korean in Celine Song's Past Lives
Shiv throws it in Tom's face that she's pregnant with their child in a fight where they try to hurt each other and Tom is unsure whether she's lying to manipulate him in Succession
Tony reacts to seeing footage of Bucky murdering his mom in Captain America: Civil War
Kendall's secret, which he can't tell anyone, including his siblings, about, isolates and destroys him until he's no longer able to bear it and he breaks down completely in Succession
Tony suffers in silence as he slowly dies from palladium poisoning and doesn't tell his loved ones what's happening in Iron Man 2
A video covering Louise and Ian's relationship and Louise's decision to marry and have a child with Ian despite knowing he'll leave after she tells him their daughter's fate in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival
Round 64 will end on April 30, 11:59 PM ET (what time is that for me?).
As always, you’re free to jump in whenever you’d like during the round, a wide variety of work types is accepted, and there are no minimum work requirements. Unfinished works and works for other fandom events are allowed. You can find more information about Lights on Park Ave and the participation guidelines here.
