Great action sequence!

The raiders snapped at Dylan’s heels like #wolves, but their ships were no match for Magpie’s speed and manoeuvrability.

He reached the Antilles’ defence radius and the raiders broke off the attack, but they weren’t getting away that easily, as gun batteries came to bear upon them.

#vss365

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Pt465 The passage of the cave she chose to explore first was #convoluted. She wouldn’t have been able to crawl through it on her belly a week ago as an elder. It reminded her of a story her friend Richard had told about a Dene guy tracking some caribou. When he got close to the herd, he belly crawled, cradling his 30-30. As he drew near, he raised his head & was startled to see a pack of #wolves, running on two legs like human beings, chasing the herd also. #vss365 #WIPSnips

#vss365 #WIPSnips

#Jade—

Gram—

I’m forgetting
The way she smelled—
Overripe roses

She knew how 
To hold me steady
How to make fists 
Mean something

I wish her voice
Could reach me now
Pull me close & say

Baby, there is still time for you.

I'd give anything
To feel that again

Not the world— 
Her hands

#vss365

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❤️❤️❤️❤️”Listen, girl, there’s far more to being a witch than magic.” ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Pt464 She was going to figure out exactly what Marvin’s #deal was. How did that little #jade green smart aleck make a SUN that the cave appeared to orbit? How did he make it rain? Did he manufacture the wind also? Today, she wasn’t going along with the daily routine he constructed for her. She wasn’t hungry anyway. What was the point of killing & butchering the same calf every freaking day? No, Siree. She was starting her investigation, & Marvin couldn’t stop her. #vss365 #WIPSnips

#vss365 #WIPSnips

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Dappled full moonlight
parses turquoise shallows
tepid and neap
Luminescent flux persists
Coral blue eyes
intuit duet
an undersea microcosm

#undersea #vss365

Then why do my children of different genders have the same 2nd set of numbers?

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Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as a tragedy, the second time as a farce.
—Karl Marx

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“Now people with crosses have come and put slave collars on us. And where is my baby? Where is Larkin?” Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents, Chapter 11

-
midnight moons
were my muse until you

a pale eucharist
upon a pewter midnight sea

forgiveness at a distance
step into the quiet

your briny name
swimming away to her glow

undersea ears thickened
listening for you -
-

#vss365 #poetry

His body was the #undersea
Caverns & curves
Beyond where sight
Can follow

Each gesture
A current that held me still
Then forgot me

Seafoam in my toes
Learning to pulse
As blood

I never wanted anything
So much as to sprout gills
Scrape my knees on coral

I'm not sure
Who kept drowning

#vss365

Guns N' Roses - November Rain YouTube video by GunsNRosesVEVO

#FromOneLine 413

I remember blueberries
precariously balanced
on my stomach

while November Rain
pursed wistful notes
from that old stereo
onto our beaded skin,

caring not that it was summer
and the only cold
was the first touch of blue
on your tongue.

#amlistening

youtu.be/8SbUC-UaAxE?...

the #undersea:
rippling refractions
of luna's light

the unlikely symmetry
of impossible pearls

beads of sweat
earned in ardour

flashback of drowning
in Labyrinth Zone Act 2

the silly
the sublime

salacious sensory seductions

breaching every tide

still wanting you

#vss365

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That first stanza . . .

Good one

I can’t tell you how much I love this description: “Driven by fiery visions of the end of the world, Aztec Emperor Cuauhtemoc averted the Spanish Conquest, and now he seeks to end the inter-tribal fighting that would have condemned the empire.” Love this alternate history set-up!

Pt463
Meona’hane’e didn’t understand the #psychology of aliens any more than she did of that of beings #undersea. Her Mississippian colleague Cindy had taught her that the Heavens & the Underwater world had different rules than their part of Mother Earth.
#vss365 #WIPSnips

Crow,
Was not a brother,
Unlike Owl.

Crow,
Didn't care for another's
Hunger

Crow,
Can be callous,
And Raw to nature's
True call.

Lily,
Only one
Who got to slip
The barb wire,
To unravel
The trickery found
In his black heart.

#vss365 #trickery
Treats for Little Crow
By Margarita Nizharadze

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Chapter 13

Pt462
Everything in the cave had Marvin’s #signature all over it. Sheer #trickery. He had been here so long that he had figured out how to manipulate the medicine of this Sacred Space by blending it with his alien technologies! Sacrilege no matter who was his friend 200 years ago!
#vss365 #WIPSnips

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