UNFATHOMABLE SONG UNFATHOMABLE SONG He woke to the sound of it.  Not a song. Unless a song can pierce your heart and threaten to atomize your soul.  So maybe ...

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UNFATHOMABLE SONG

He woke to the sound of it.

Not a song. Unless a song can pierce your heart and threaten to atomize your soul.

So maybe it was a song after all.

He sat on the bed, startled, panting as if...
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THE OTHER TEMPEST THE OTHER TEMPEST Lightning strikes close by and flares up the room for a second, ghost-movie style. Then, her silhouette by the window turn...

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And now I’m going to die like some dime Romeo. All because it was raining tonight, she didn’t want to return home, and there’s been a magnetic storm raging in me since the day I met her.

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We turned from the still sea, and found the tor gathering all the clouds above its head. It boded ill for someone somewhere. #WedsStory

#WedsStory ”We are becalmed in spirit as well as in weather. We must shake that off and embark on the next stage of our lives.”
“The Long Island must be somewhere out there,” Ti’a’toig’a said. “Swai’fol’zei, have the #clouds cleared enough for you tell which way is west?”

#WedsStory “On the eastern horizon! A smudge!”
“Smudge?” responded Mo’wiv. “You mean, now we have a storm in the east?”
“No, not #clouds. It looks like – smoke! Yes, it even has a reddish tinge!”
“An island! Possibly the island we are looking for!”

#WedsStory Out in that open sea storm #clouds were lofting their towering heads into a hazy sky, and there was no land beneath them. Another deep bay lay to our port side, definitely the most favorable of all we had discovered. And at the inner end of the bay we saw a fortress...

#WedsStory The morning came and we all went down to the beach to watch the ship sail away. It was a clear day with only a few thin #clouds in the east and another Golden Path pointing the way across the water.
And Thel’tav’a raised her shooter and let fly a dart into the sunrise.

Wednesday, February 18th ~ #WritingPrompts 5/5

#VssFantasy Trust
#VssMagic Mill
#WedsStory Theme: Safe / Safety
#WeirdMicro Unmapped Sphere
#WildWalkPrompt ⬇️ Stem
#WIPSnips Laser
#WSS366 Keen

Thursday, February 12th ~ #WritingPrompts 5/5

#VssFantasy Fidelity
#VssMagic Bard
#WedsStory Theme: Tunnel / Tunneling
#WeirdMicro Bleeding ivy
#WildWalkPrompt ⬇️ Daffodil
#WindingWords Blanket
#WIPSnips Defense
#WSS366 Evolution

Wednesday, February 4th ~ #WritingPrompts 6/6

#VssDaily Unqualified
#VssFantasy Yearning
#VssMagic Mega
#WedsStory Theme: Blood
#WeirdMicro Tilting spires
#WildWalkPrompt ⬇️ Sandpiper
#WIPSnips Position
#WSS366 Detail

Wednesday, January 28th ~ #WritingPrompts 5/5

#VssFantasy Obstreperous
#VssMagic Dew
#WedsStory Theme: Footsteps
#WeirdMicro Fragile Mind
#WildWalkPrompt ⬇️ Cotton
#WIPSnips Procrastinate
#WSS366 Compass

Wednesday, January 21st ~ #WritingPrompts 6/6

#VssFantasy Horizon
#VssMagic Home
#WedsStory Theme: Garden(ing)
#WeirdMicro Uncatalogued place
#WildWalkPrompt ⬇️ Bouquet
#WIPSnips Activity
#WSS366 Roger

Wednesday, January 7th ~ #WritingPrompts 5/6

#Vss365 Symphony
#VssDaily Passport
#VssFantasy First Light
#VssMagic Chill
#WedsStory Theme = Laughter

Wednesday, November 26th ~ #WritingPrompts 6/6

#VssFantasy Binding
#VssMagic Meteor
#WedsStory Theme = Message
#WeirdMicro #TurnUpTheDark Luridly Orbic
#Whistpr Race
#WildWalkPrompt ⬇️ Orchid
#WIPSnips Impede
#WSS366 Refrain

Wednesday, November 19th ~ #WritingPrompts 6/6

#WedsStory Theme = Fragment
#WeirdMicro #TurnUpTheDark Catalog of Wonders
#Whistpr Join
#WildWalkPrompt ⬇️ Spore
#WIPSnips Third
#WSS366 Spiral

Wednesday, November 5th ~ #WritingPrompts 4/4

#WedsStory Theme = Luck
#WeirdMicro #TurnUpTheDark Feast of Children
#Whistpr Mate
#WildWalkPrompt ⬇️ Darkness
#WIPSnips Trail
#WSS366 Lip

Wednesday, October 29th ~ #WritingPrompts 3/4

#UnchainedSymphonies Compress
#Vss365 Argent
#VssDaily Merge
#VssFantasy Darkwater
#VssMagic Fail
#VssMystery Window
#WedsStory Theme = Skull

Wednesday, October 22nd ~ #WritingPrompts 4/4

#WedsStory Theme = Crying
#WeirdMicro #TurnUpTheDark Insipid Idealism
#Whistpr Encounter
#WildWalkPrompt Spider
#WIPSnips Charge
#Wolfetober Cracked Molars
#WSS366 Joint

#WedsStory [After his best friend Kolm MaGilligoody dies in the Darter Disaster, Robbie experiences a full-blown PTSD breakdown. ]

#WedsStory [1/6] In spite of Robbie’s misery after the debacle in the Captain’s stateroom, he was experiencing a kind of relief. There was no longer any need for pretense, no longer any exhausting obligation to try to seem stronger or saner than he was.

#WedsStory [2/6 ] He no longer fought to suppress the confusion in his mind; if he felt like talking about it, he talked; if he felt like withdrawing from reality, he withdrew. And if he felt like crying, he cried.

#WedsStory [3/6] Then Augie asked incredulously, “Mum, are you crying?”
“Well, there are some tears on my face, yes,” said Wilda, flicking at her cheeks. “I keep thinking about what Robbie’s gone through. It’s no wonder he lost it, Dickon.”

#WedsStory [4/6] Julie said, “What did they mean – the Captain looked like death when he came down the stairs? Like one of those zomboids on the FicLink?”
“No, son,” said Dickon. “This is the real thing. He had his friend’s blood all over him.”

#WedsStory [5/6] A couple of evenings later, Robbie watched Dr. Souray adjusting his IV. “You know what, doc? I’ve stopped crying all the time. …

#WedsStory [6/6] “It used to be, the mere mention of Kolm’s name would send me off. But I haven’t really cried since Dana gave me hell there in her living room. I think I squeezed my tear glands dry that day.”

Wednesday, October 15th ~ #WritingPrompts 4/4

#WedsStory Theme = Rumours
#WeirdMicro #TurnUpTheDark Frightful Vitality
#Whistpr Oyster
#WildWalkPrompt Rusting
#WIPSnips Care
#Wolfetober Sharp Gills, Sharper Teeth
#WSS366 Stem

Wednesday, October 8th ~ #WritingPrompts 4/4

#WedsStory Theme = Light
#WeirdMicro #TurnUpTheDark Bitter Ode
#Whistpr Crimson
#WildWalkPrompt Cat
#WIPSnips Dungeon
#Wolfetober Rotted Meats
#WSS366 Buckle

#WedsStory [1/6] The exterior lighting was turned off early in the village to conserve power, so it was velvety dark in the clearing among the palm trees and the sky looked like a big game field on a port, with markers on it so thick the pointer would never be able to pick them all out.

#WedsStory [2/6] They were approaching the lights of the rail terminal, and Sterling stopped suddenly and crouched down before Robbie, taking him by the shoulders and looking into his face. “You’re going to have a new name now, too, my little son.”

#WedsStory [3/6] “A new name?” he repeated, feeling as though his whole world were heaving and dropping under his feet.
“From now on, you won’t be Roberto Vargas any longer. You’ll be Robbin Nikalishin.”
“Oh … Can I still be Robbie?”