Beginnings

My contribution to the last #7DayTale as a whole, read by me on YouTube.

Transitory moments of something becoming. Usually followed by an ending.

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Beginnings Beginnings

Beginnings

My contribution to the last #7DayTale as a whole on Medium.

Transitory moments of something becoming. Usually followed by an ending.

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Eventually, she built the necessary muscles, and living life became the order of the day. This was, when happiness sparked.

#7DayTale D7
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#Habits

Step by step, she integrated healthy ones. First the breathing, then the nourishment, then walking the talk...

#7DayTale D6
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Then she got hungry. This time she wouldn't feed. Nourishment was of the essence.

#7DayTale D5
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#Toast

After she was reborn, she congratulated herself. A raised glass, filled with the water of life caught a tear that mixed in a grain of salt.

#7DayTale D4
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The birth was surprisingly easy. One breath after another she moved through the contractions, until the light blasted the tunnel.

#7DayTale D3
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#Rebirth

It happened during the in-between.
Though first, there was a death. It had been coming for a long time, and she had been prepared.

#7DayTale D2
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Witch's hazel flower buds, of which one is about to burst open.

#Beginnings

Transitory moments of something becoming. Usually following an ending.

#7DayTale D1
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#7DayTale,
#FlashFiction, #shortstory,
#fantasy, #writtingcommunity,
#Authors
@thescribblings.bsky.social
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𝙵𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝚅𝙴 𝙼𝙰𝙶𝙸𝙲 𝙳𝟻

#7DayTale,
#FlashFiction, #shortstory,
#fantasy, #writtingcommunity,
#Authors
@thescribblings.bsky.social
@heathergate.bsky.social
𝙵𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝚅𝙴 𝙼𝙰𝙶𝙸𝙲 𝙳𝟺

#7DayTale,
#FlashFiction, #shortstory,
#fantasy, #writtingcommunity,
#Authors
@thescribblings.bsky.social
@heathergate.bsky.social
𝙵𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝚅𝙴 𝙼𝙰𝙶𝙸𝙲 𝙳𝟹

#7DayTale,
#FlashFiction, #shortstory,
#fantasy, #writtingcommunity,
#Authors
@thescribblings.bsky.social
@heathergate.bsky.social
𝙵𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝚅𝙴 𝙼𝙰𝙶𝙸𝙲 𝙳𝟸

#7DayTale,
#FlashFiction, #shortstory,
#fantasy, #writtingcommunity,
#Authors
@thescribblings.bsky.social
@heathergate.bsky.social
𝙵𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝚅𝙴 𝙼𝙰𝙶𝙸𝙲 𝙳𝟷

#7DayTale,
#FlashFiction, #shortstory,
#fantasy, #writtingcommunity,
#Authors
@thescribblings.bsky.social
@heathergate.bsky.social

Afterlife Most people were afraid of death. But dying was not the problem. It was easy. Letting go of life was the harder part. Particularly when it…

Afterlife

Are you curious about the afterlife?

I accidentally finished my #7DayTale a day too early. So, here is the complete microstory, posted on Medium, & read by me on YouTube.

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youtu.be/Kwm-bzABJlo

His bones were scattered all over the place, when the light reached the square.

With the villagers, the kids watched in awe, as bones became flesh, became love, and returned to the All.

All fear had gone. All that remained was love.

The shaman smiled.

#7DayTale D24 #WritingCommunity

Then she began her healing magic. It involved smudging, and chanting, and firm intention, to appease the angry spirits. But to open the gate, it needed more than that.

Love was the only way.

#7DayTale D23 #WritingCommunity

No time for grudges, now. She had to get to work. All the ingredients she needed grew in the feral cottage garden the monks had planted, long ago. In the olden days, people knew their ways.

She drew a sacred circle over the desecrated tomb.

#7DayTale D22 #WritingCommunity

The sight of the dug up ground in front of one of the headstones told her, that she had been right. Also, the traces of necromancy, she picked up on, were almost overwhelming.

Stupid, ignorant kids!

#7DayTale D21 #WritingCommunity

When she arrived in the village centre, she found a scared, and confused skeleton being chased by an angry father. Following her intuition, she didn't bother to try, and ask questions. Instead, she made straight to the old graveyard in the woods.

#7DayTale D20 #WritingCommunity

She awoke when she heard screaming from the village square. A chill ran down her spine and told her, something untoward was going on. She could feel traces of magic. Snagging her medicine bag on the way out, she went to get an overview.

#7DayTale D19 #WritingCommunity

They arrived almost at the same time at the red haired boy's house, who just awoke from his blackout, his mum all over him in panic.

They looked at each other and knew they all had the same question:

What had they done?

#7DayTale D18 #WritingCommunity

Window by window was lit, as the villagers awoke from the mayhem.

When the other two kids, a blonde boy, and a brown haired girl of the same age as the red haired boy, realised what was going on, a chill ran down their spine.

#7DayTale D17 #WritingCommunity

The protective dad launched at the skeleton, which stumbled backwards down the front steps, bones scattering. It collected them up as fast as it could, and fled, the red haired boy's father running after it.

#7DayTale D16 #WritingCommunity

The thump his body caused when hitting the floor, woke up the boy's parents. When they saw the nightly visitor, the mother started to scream hysterically, while the father grabbed an axe that had stood by the door from splitting wood, earlier.

#7DayTale D15 #WritingCommunity

Knock, knock...

Knock, knock...

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK

A sleepy, red haired 16-year-old boy opened the door and looked at a grinning scull that once had been a face.
He rubbed his eyes, and then fainted.

#7DayTale D14 #WritingCommunity

Once he arrived in the village, the trace of the three teenagers split up. This must have been where they parted ways to go to their individual homes.

He followed the scent of one of them, a boy, and stepped up to his door.

#7DayTale D13 #WritingCommunity

An ivory-coloured, bony hand appeared, followed by the rest of the skeleton that had been a man of flesh and bones over 200 years ago. He had no nose, but he could pick up the scent of the kids, and followed it.

#7DayTale D12 #WritingCommunity

With a mix of disappointment, and relief, they gathered their belongings to go home. When they had almost reached the footpath, the earth in front of one of the headstones back on the old churchyard lifted under the pale moon light.

#7DayTale D11 #WritingCommunity