tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68524976505103712212024-03-14T00:35:45.182-07:00Musings of a Mad PoetWhat? Did you expect something witty?PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-47582281812389076422013-05-19T22:27:00.000-07:002013-05-19T22:27:57.240-07:00Innocence Stolen<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I can hear him breathing out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The darkness calls him…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Surrounding dangers abound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hear him whisper…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He’s calling out to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He says come closer…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And I turn to run.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I see a blade flash, as it goes past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hear him laughing at me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He’s just toying now…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Predator after prey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My heart’s beating loud…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The sound gives me away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m in the shadows now…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Silently I pray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He finds me somehow…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I turn to run, he’s having fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I see a blade flash, as it goes past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hear him laughing at me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I start to stumble, my hands fumble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Soon he’s on top of me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There’s nothing I can do…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My life is through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Blade pierces my flesh…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I gasp for breath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He can see my pain…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He enters again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The world fades to black…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I feel him pulling back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I see a blade flash, as it goes past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hear him laughing at me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I start to stumble, my hands fumble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Soon he’s on top of me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Virginal white now red, I have bleed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Innocence stolen from me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is the end…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I wish my life had never begun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Broken I lie…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Wishing that I could die.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He leaves me now…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">His damage done for now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He’ll be back again…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Though I know not when.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I see a blade flash, as it goes past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hear him laughing at me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I start to stumble, my hands fumble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Soon he’s on top of me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Virginal white now red, I have bleed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Innocence stolen from me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My heart crumbles, my mind tumbles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A shell is all that’s left of me.</span></div>
PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-14956263890870738752013-05-09T23:44:00.001-07:002013-05-09T23:44:41.052-07:00Will The Last Person To Leave Please Turn Out The Sun
Hello all two (or maybe three) of my readers out there in the world of the interwebs. Today I wanted to share with you a short story I wrote as a personal challenge to myself since I love to be long winded and write novel length material when I write fiction. Part of the challenge was to see if I could properly convey the same message in under 2,000 words as I could in 10,000 words. Also, this does, in a way, tie into my novel "Shadows of the Western Moon" in that it presents the reason that mankind left earth permanently thru the T.E.A.R.S. project. Please take the time to read it and give me your feedback, I welcome it. Also, I would like to state that this is my work and as such it is my intellectual property, please do not steal it but feel free to share it.<br />
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PERSON TO LEAVE PLEASE TURN OUT THE SUN</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">by M. C. Rylee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Turning on the light to the small study, Aurora Farsinger
looked around the room, her eyes stopping on the computer monitor which rested
on a small desk. </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the monitor there was a small icon that
would flash before being followed by an insistent beeping before flashing once
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sighing, she walked over to the
monitor and touched icon on the screen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>Establishing connection…<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>Establishing connection…<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She waited patiently for the
connection to be established, hating how slow interstellar travel made any kind
of connection to the net.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While she
waited, she tapped her foot impatiently on the floor for a few seconds before
deciding to sit in the chair that rested in front of the computer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she sank into the chair she wondered who
it was that was trying to call her since she hadn’t bothered to check the
caller ID.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her curiosity was rewarded a
couple of seconds later (establishing the connection had only taken thirteen
seconds) when an elderly face of a man filled the screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His features were deeply carved with the
ravages of time and hard work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Poppa,” Aurora said, her face
visibly brightening as she saw the face of her grandfather on the screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I didn’t expect a call from you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was expecting you to come walking into our
quarters any minuet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where are you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do I need to come and get you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you having trouble navigating the ship?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hello to you too young lady,” The
old man said with an odd smile on his face that was almost sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“To answer the questions that you bombarded
me with… No, I am not having trouble navigating the ship and no, I don’t need
you to come get me because I am not even on your ship.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A look of disbelief crossed Aurora’s
face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Which ship are you on?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did you manage to get on the wrong ship?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know you aren’t so old that you would
wander onto the wrong ship Poppa, you aren’t senile yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you take too long packing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that what it is?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told David that we should have helped you
pack your things…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">On the screen the old man looked as if he was trying
to say something but after several minutes of listing to her continue to
prattle on, he just shut his mouth and waited patiently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“… but don’t worry Poppa, when we to Casteal we will
wait for your ship to arrive so that we can help you unload and settle in
before moving on to our new home.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Aurora paused for just a second and the old man,
sensing an opportunity spoke up before she could catch her breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“Aurora,” He said a little sharper than he intended
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I am not on a ship heading to Casteal.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“You not only got on the wrong ship but you got on
one that was heading to the wrong planet?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“No child, you misunderstand me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should have just come right out and said it
before you ever left Earth but the fact of the matter is… I am not on a ship at
all.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“What?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“I said I am not on a ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am still on Earth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“What do you mean you’re still on Earth?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you not get to the port in time?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“No child, I did not even try.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“But we had made arrangement weeks in advance to for
all of us to leave together and start a new life on Casteal considering the
situation with Earth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“No, you and your husband decided that, I had no say
in the matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never wanted to leave,
after all, this is where my dear sweet Lilly is and I don’t want to die on a
planet far away from her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look around
me…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The camera shifted and the face disappeared from the
screen as it panned around showing the area where the old man was at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everywhere the camera panned, Aurora could
see gravestones jutting out of the dry dusty soil that held them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one closest to the old man was clearly
meant to have two names etched upon it but only had one name that was carved
into it on the right hand side of the stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The scene on the screen swung back, once again revealing the old man who
had a sad look on his face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“You see child,” The old man began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Here I am among many of the people that have
left me behind, left me to grow old and withered, abandoned to the whims of my
children who, instead of treating me like a person, treated me like a burden to
be shucked off to someone else in the cheapest nursing home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“Hush child,” he said sharply as Aurora opened her
mouth to protest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I am not passing
judgment on you, you just did what you thought was best, but you never really
took my feelings into consideration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kind of like this migration to one of these new planets that they are
supposed to have terra-formed and ready to be populated, you never asked me if
I wanted to go, you just made plans for me without ever considering how I felt.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“You should have talked with David and Me before
doing a fool thing like this Poppa,” Aurora said, scolding the old man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“Child,” the old man said sharply, “Don’t take that
tone with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have tried to talk to
you and your husband about this repeatedly over the course of the years since
your Nana died, you just never bothered to hear what I had to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You and David wrote me off after putting me
in that home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You figured that you could
just dictate how my life without my say so because you thought you knew better
than me when it came to my own life.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The old man on the screen sighed and closed his eyes
while taking a deep breath and holding it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He sat there motionless for several minutes before opening his eyes and
continuing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“I know you were just doing what you thought was
best, I do, but you never took how I felt into consideration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never asked to go to that Home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was perfectly fine in the Apartment that I
had shared with your Nana before she died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When you took that away from me, it not only felt like you were casting
me aside, it felt like you were trying to strip me of all that I had left to
tie me to Lilly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“My dear, sweet Lilly, how I miss you,” the old man
said as he looked over his shoulder at the gravestone beside him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A tear shimmered on his cheek as he turned
back toward the screen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“Child… No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Aurora, I know that life hasn’t been easy for you, especially since your
parents died and you had to come live with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Making that transition was not easy for anyone, Lilly and I suddenly had
a child to care for again while you had to live in a stuffy antiquated
apartment with your grandparents while mourning the loss of your parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your Nana and I did our best to make sure you
were provided for and had everything that a growing girl needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We struggled to make sure that you had the
best life you could and over all I think we did rather well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You grew up to be a beautiful woman who
married a kind and intelligent man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
have your own family to take care of and for some reason you thought you needed
to take care of me as well even though I am perfectly capable of taking care of
myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“Ever since the T.E.A.R.S. project was announced over
ninety years ago to the public, I knew it was something that my children and my
children’s children would benefit from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Honestly, I never expected to see Casteal or any of the other<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>planets that they have prepared for the human
race since I figured at the time that I would be dead long before the ships
meant to take mankind to that distant planet were ready.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that the time has come to leave this
beautiful planet that I have called home all of my life, I don’t want to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have so many fond memories here, all of my
life is here, and the woman that I dedicated myself to is here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m too old to go make a life on another
planet and I want to die here, on the planet that I call home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chances are, I wouldn’t even survive the
journey to Casteal anyway due to how many years that is going to take.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“Aurora, I waited to call you like this because I
knew that you needed to be well on your way to your new home before you knew
where I was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that you would have
tried to find some way to rescue me,” he said, making air quotes as he said the
word rescue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I couldn’t have you
potentially jeopardizing your life or the lives of others over me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have had a full life and remaining here is
my decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please, you can be angry
with me but don’t mourn me, I am happy and content.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“Poppa, I am angry at you,” Aurora said, her face a
mask of fury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“How could you do this…
this… this selfish act?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t believe
you would just abandon me like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
telling me that I never took how you felt into consideration, well I did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t like having to put you in that Home,
Poppa, but we did it because we couldn’t be there all the time to make sure
nothing happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You were alone in that
apartment and there was no telling what might have happened to you at your
age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could have fallen and broken
something then not been able to call for help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We placed you in that Home for your safety and you will never know the
financial sacrifices we had to make to keep you there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were only looking out for you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“Now you just up and decide that you are going to
stay behind on Earth after we spent the money that we earned to make sure that
you have a place on one of the ships evacuating the system so that you wouldn’t
die when the sun…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aurora’s voice
trailed off as the angry dropped from her face and tears began to well up in
her eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She turned away from the
monitor, shoulders shaking as she cried softly to herself, not wanting her
grandfather to see her tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“Aurora, I know that this decision has hurt you and
for that I truly am sorry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I could make it up to you I would but we
both know that is impossible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love you
and I only want the best for you, I hope that one day you will see that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The old man grew silent and Aurora turned back
toward the monitor where the old man was now looking up at the sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“It’s so beau-“ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said as a brilliant flash of white filled
the screen and his words were cut off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Static followed a brief second later before switching to a black screen
with the flashing message…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Connection Lost<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<u><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></o:p></span></u><br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The End<o:p></o:p></span></div>
PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-6925317277488512252013-05-07T23:55:00.000-07:002013-05-07T23:55:45.969-07:00I Don't Know
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know who
can hear my voice.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know who
would help me now.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know who
would even try.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know
what it will take to change it.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know
what to do.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know
what could make things right.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know
when it became so complicated.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know
when it became so hard.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know
when things will get better.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know
where this path ends.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know
where I’m going.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know
where it began.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know why
it is this way.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know why
no one will listen.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know why
anyone would care.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know how
I can live like this.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know how
life continues day to day.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know how
to continue.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t know.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I just don’t
know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-22192495587257416742013-04-30T00:46:00.000-07:002013-04-30T00:46:37.069-07:00Hatred<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate you all. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate each and every one of you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate YOU, Society, and the way you look at me and
others like me in fear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You force us to hide in the shadows, worried what
might happen if we are found.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You reject and spit on us, tearing at our cloths.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You mock us and beat us because we don’t fit into
your world view.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You torture us in your attempts to force us to
conform.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate you for that and I hate everything that you
stand for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You think that we are a disease, afraid we might
spread.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You hate us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You make us weep tears of pain and fear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate you for that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate YOU, Mom and Dad. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You couldn’t accept me as I am.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You turned your back on your daughter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You blamed yourself because she was a freak.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You didn’t show her the love and acceptance that she
yearned for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You told her that she was wrong and needed to be
locked away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You turned a blind eye when the gun was in her hand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You looked away, not trying to understand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You made her kill a part of herself, doing irreparable
harm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You disgust me with what you did to me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You probably think you were doing the right thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But you broke my heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You left me in the dark with nowhere to go.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You thought that I would bring shame for being the
freak that I am.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You told me to forget what had happened and never
speak of it again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I can’t forget and I won’t, it consumes me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Most of all, I hate YOU, God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You who put me here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You who made me like this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You hurt me in ways I can never describe with words.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You brought me into this like some sick joke.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s ALL your fault, every last bit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I loathe you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I despise you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You set things into motion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You wrecked my life before it even started.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will never forget what you did to me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You made me broken, an unfinished product.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You cast me down into a world of pain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You know I hate you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But you know what the worst thing of all is?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I know you don’t care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You cast me aside like an afterthought.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate you so much.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate YOU.</span>PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-32350365391104093132013-04-28T22:52:00.000-07:002013-04-28T22:52:46.928-07:00Dance of Fire
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Once a winter's night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Pari danced with warmth and light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Fey song on the wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-31487606603025457382013-04-22T01:35:00.000-07:002013-04-22T01:45:41.994-07:00Pain<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will never have the look that I want.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will never have the body that I want. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will never be able to dress the way that I want to
dress.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will never be beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will never be pretty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will never be sexy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will never really be the woman that I feel that I
am.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will always be ugly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will always be hideous.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will always be disgusting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will always be trapped.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will always hate my body.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will always hate myself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will always be male.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I can do nothing to change this, not without paying
a price I don’t want to pay.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I can do nothing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I wish I were braver.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I wish I could take that final step.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I wish I could leave this pain behind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I wish people would listen to my cries.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I wish I could cry louder in order to be heard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am dying inside but no one can see.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hurt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I ache.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I long for release.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate the jealousy I feel when I look at other
women.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate how they can be so lucky and not know it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate how I can never be like them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate how cheated I feel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I know that God doesn’t care.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I have cried out to the heaven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I have heard the silence in response.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I don’t know what to do.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I just want it to end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I cry in my soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am tired.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am weak.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I know this pain will never end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-5006170341927162732013-01-21T20:09:00.001-08:002013-01-21T20:09:42.191-08:00Repetitious Deaths Of A Pained Soul Never End<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am killing her once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I should have known it would never work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am killing her once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">No one understands, they grin and smirk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am killing her once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I thought I could trust the one I love to understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am killing her once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I should have known it could not be in this land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am killing her once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I know that she will come creeping back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am killing her once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My heart will be broken, torn by a huge crack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am killing her once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This world for me is a cruel, dark place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am killing her once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is an effort to once again hide her face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am killing her once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am disappointed, hurt, wanting to be free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am killing her once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">People just don’t understand that she is me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am killing myself again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-68069415559024798832013-01-10T12:43:00.001-08:002013-01-10T12:43:17.492-08:00The Crypt<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Alone it sits upon a tiny lonely hill, surrounded by blacked and withered grass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Its stone is cracked and weathered with age, its roof drooping on verge of collapse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Upon its door sits a wreath of roses, darkened with despair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Inside its depths are blacker than black, hidden completely from view.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dreams are a funny thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can make you laugh, they can make you cry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can fill your heart with joy and peace as well as crush it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can inspire a thousand stories or they can inspire a myriad of fears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dreams are a funny thing like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">All of my stories are inspired by dreams that I have had, all of them, even the ones that I will never put to paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get to experience a fragment of the life of that my characters lead and I let my imagination do the rest because soon after waking the fine details fade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Moonstones novels were based off of a series of dreams that I had where, from the few details I can remember after waking, I lived in the life of Sephira, Alissa, Jonah and Lilly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Sephira all I remember is the impression of her rape and murder as I lived through them in the dream experiencing the horror of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Alissa, I experienced her wedding ceremony and the night after with her husband and the flavor of her world as she grew up world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Jonah, I got my gleanings of the world that these characters all live in as well as his deeply profound commitment to Alissa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Lilly, I got the Impression of the politics and business practices that dictate the path that society takes in this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For the novel, Sanguine Whispers, I had a dream where I was the victim of the serial killer who is the villain in the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That, coupled with the song “Jar of Hearts” by Christina Perri, led me to create that story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alexis, the psychic detective (she is a medium who gets readings by touching objects) who is helping the police to track the killer down, was another character from yet another dream that I had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the dream, as her, I was curious because I couldn’t get readings off of the items left behind at the murder scene almost as if the spirits of the victims were cut off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Even the stories that I have that don’t initiate by dream usually have dreams that follow where I get details and impressions that influence the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This may make it sound like I have dozens and dozens of dreams but I don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am someone who doesn’t often dream or, if I do, I don’t tend to remember them other than a few details and impressions, just enough information for me work with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The few dreams that I have tend to be very vivid and sometimes it is hard to distinguish them from the real world upon my awakening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whenever I dream, I tend to wake up the next day in a slump of depression and continue to stay that way the rest of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You would think that this would be an undesirable thing yet when I go to bed the next night I find myself hoping and praying to have yet another dream just so that I can once again escape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish for this even though I know that once again the next day I will suffer even more for my reality is a painful one for me to bear and these dreams are my only reprieve from my real life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get me wrong though, my life isn’t horrible, I have a lot of great people and things in it but despite all of the good there is one thing that always eats at my soul and that is what my dreams tend give me relief from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What is it that plagues me in my life so?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, if you have read all of my blog posts on this blog then you should already know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was thinking about this post last night before heading to bed I wished for yet another dream, another escape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had dreams the previous three nights and due to that my depression was really acting up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was planning to just come right out and spill my deepest heartfelt secrets about myself to the world through this post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, I didn’t have a dream last night which has given me a bit of a clearer head and state of mind for writing this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I probably shouldn’t really be worried about that since no one reads more blog anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hello Readers, just letting y’all know what is going on with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have submitted my short story “Will the Last Person to Leave Please Turn Out the Sun” to the Jim Baen Memorial writing contest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly, I don’t expect to win nor do I expect to get second or third place, but I consider this a big step for me because I am putting my writing out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason that this is a big step is because of a fear of rejection that is absolutely crippling at times for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way I look at it, and the way that helps me to overcome this, is that the worst thing they can say to me is please don’t send us any more of your work and, since this is a contest, the likelihood of that is slim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should know whether or not I won by March 15<sup>th</sup> at the latest and if I don’t win then I have other plans for this short story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, I plan on submitting it to Lightspeed magazine and Strange Horizons magazine if I don’t win the contest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know if they will buy my story, but I won’t know if I don’t try right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As for my novel “Tears of the Western Moon” which I have been working on off and on since I killed off… well my favorite character, who shall remain nameless for the time being since I don’t want to give away the surprise, I am back working on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I told you in the last post, I felt the need to delete around 6k words and I am pleased to say that I have almost gained all of that lost ground back and am must happier with the result.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I know that you aren’t supposed to edit as you are writing, but that was a case of me writing myself into a pit that I couldn’t work my way out of reasonably and to be honest, I was forcing myself to write that segment and it sucked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All is right now though as the corrections have been made and the mysteriously androgynous Lord Aramon has finally made his… err, her... ummm, let’s just go with the masculine pronouns for now since the character has revealed that information to me yet, semi-permanent presence known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Currently, he seems to be trying to weasel his way into my little band of travelers in his quest to gain immortality by possessing the Moonstones but will our heroes will for it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s hope not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyway, that’s about it for now, I will try to post a bit more regularly since life seems to have calmed back down a bit for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh and if anyone else wishes to enter the Jim Baen Memorial writing contest, this is where you can find the info…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-22858421853668078992012-11-30T06:27:00.000-08:002012-11-30T06:27:54.326-08:00Just an update<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello, I know it has been a while since I have posted on here last and I just want to let you few readers that I have know I haven't forgotten about you. Life, unfortunately, gets in the way sometimes and I can't keep up with my blogs of my writing the way that I would like too. Currently, I have a short story that I have completed called "Will the Last Person to Leave Please Turn Out the Sun". I wrote this story partially as an exercise and partially because I needed a short break from "Tears of the Western Moon" after killing off one of my favorite characters as well as a sub-character. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The way that this short story was an exercise for me was that I find it very easy to tell a story as long as it has a large word count. So in light of that, I set the restriction of 2k words for this short story. One I finished it it came out to around 1850 words which is well within my limit that I set and I am happy with the results, now I just wait for initial reactions from my first draft reader before I start edits...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As for work on "Tears of the Western Moon" I had gotten up to a word count of 39k words but needed to go back and delete 6k of that 39k.... very discouraging. But I have since added 1k back to it and am now at 34k words. I find myself struggling to continue this novel because the death of... the character who I killed off still depresses me and now I have to face the fact that she is dead and move on with the story. I will finish this book. Then I will edit as I did with "Shadows of the Western Moon" and after edits are finished I will move on to the third novel in the trilogy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyway, just wanted to post an update for anyone that was interested.</span>PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-17213190138230590762012-06-12T16:16:00.000-07:002012-06-12T16:16:09.438-07:00The Dreams of the Young<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hello there my few readers that I have, I want to talk to you today about dreams. No, not the type that you get when you close your eyes and go to sleep, instead I want to talk about the kind that you have when you are growing up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, those dreams like being a firefighter or astronaut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When I was growing up I had dreams, big dreams, small dream and average dreams just like I imagine every kid has.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to grow up to be a multitude of things ranging from policeman to ballerina to gymnast to archeologist to musician to published author… The list could go on and on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of those dreams I have accomplished some, though not necessarily to the degree that I desired, but the point is I have accomplished them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been an officer of the law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been a musician.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have even been published twice with my poetry, though sadly no novels have been published yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now when I was young the dream was simply to write a novel and get it published.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I didn’t know about self-publishing when I was young and therefor that didn’t work into the dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that dream has expanded and grown as I have gotten older, now I know exactly by how and by who I want to be published.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not to knock people who self-publish, but I do not think that self-publishing is for me, at least not at this point in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still want to sell the rights to my novels and be published by professional publishing companies, in particular Baen, Pyr or Tor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hold this dream close to my heart and hope that one day I make it a reality…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is all, that is all that this post is about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry if you found it disappointing but I just wanted to share that piece of me with you, my very few yet regular readers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope that life finds you well and that many of your dreams will become reality for you too.</span></div>PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-63638961521658956712012-05-24T04:56:00.001-07:002012-05-24T05:02:41.841-07:00Sanguine Whispers<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Slowly I trail a finger down her breast, passing it gently over her nipple causing her to shiver with pleasure beneath my touch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking into her eyes I see the desire she has wanting me, needing me as I tease her body building the anticipation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wants me, she craves me, I can see it in the wild look in her eyes, she needs me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gently I kiss her, lips trailing her body, I feel her nerves racing, wondering where my lips will touch next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I push her to the brink . . . before pulling back to admire my handy work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I look at her, examining her limp, loose body as it lies on the bed, waiting, waiting, waiting for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Months of preparation had led up to this point, this moment, where I will soon claim my prize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father once said, “Patience is a virtue my son, and as it is with any virtue, it will reward you in the end.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, it was moments like this that prove that to be true, a perfect moment in time, one that will always be cherished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As I look at her on the bed, my mind slips back, rolling over every delectable detail leading to the now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I first spotted her while leaving the apartment of my last girlfriend, Jessica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be honest, it was the sound of her shoes that drew my attention with the little click, click, click, they made on the concrete of the sidewalk as she walked away from where I was standing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wore four inch black stiletto heels on her pretty little feet, dark stockings with the seam that ran up the back of her long, supple legs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her pinstripe skirt of the business suit she wore was tight fitting and displayed her tight butt quite well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had a tiny waist, shown by the tightness the matching pinstripe jacket she wore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her golden hair was pulled up into a tight french twist allowing me to see the soft skin of her neck and the perfect curve of her jawline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn't help it, I had to follow this vision of perfection that had caught my eye so suddenly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I locked the door to Jessica's apartment quickly, left the key in the lock, and took off after her, removing my gloves as I followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She led me to a parking garage that was just around the corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon showing her pass to the attendant she was let in, I walked on in order not to draw attention to myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just down the street there was a bench with a newspaper dispenser next to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I grabbed a paper and sat down, pretending to read while waiting for the next car to pull out of the garage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn't have to wait long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a few minutes a black Mustang pulled out onto the street and, lucky for me, turned to head in the direction I had gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is when I was given my first glimpse of her face and I knew at once, this angel was to be my next companion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Softly she calls my name, pulling me out of my revelry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lean in to hear what she has to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is talking softly, so softly I must strain to hear her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She is telling a story, a story of two young lovers who met by chance at a party shortly after the Civil War had ended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were so smitten by one another upon their first meeting that they almost immediately fell into the others arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That would have a scandalous affair though, had that occurred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead they agreed after much dancing and time spent in each other’s company to meet later that night down by the banks of the Warrior River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon the hour of truth came, and the maiden was sneaking out of her bedroom window to meet the young man who had wooed her that night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was waiting there for her and for the first time, they embraced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After some time spent enjoying each other’s company they soon parted ways with the agreement to return the next night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not that many nights passed before they made love for the first time, it was a magical experience, making the world seem more alive in their eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon, they got married, had several children and lived happily ever after till the day they died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She lets me know, in between the soft little pants that signal her arousal, that the time is right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I work my way slowly back up her body, priming it for the gift to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I make my way to her neck, caressing her skin with my lips, she opens for me and I enter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My mind flashes back to the moment we met earlier tonight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had been watching the doors to the club her and her friends had gone too for some time, knowing that it was customary for them to leave before her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason for this was that all her girlfriends were married and had families to get back too while she had just an empty house waiting for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She would hang around; usually about another two hours to see if she could find a nice young man to “hook up” with so that the night wouldn't be as lonely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes she found one, but most times she didn't.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tonight,</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"> I had thought to myself as I watched her friends leave, <i>tonight you will not leave empty handed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tonight you leave with me.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Quietly I slipped into the club and made my way to the bar where I knew she would be sitting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I approached, I caught her eye immediately though I pretended not to notice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had dressed in a nice white polo and a pair freshly pressed khakis, “Dressed to impress,” as my father would say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sat down six seats to her left and ordered a beer before I gave notice of her presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I flashed a polite smile in her direction and turned to my beer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As soon as I knew she wasn't watching me, I turned to watch her and whenever she would turn to look at me I would quickly look away blushing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The eye flirting continued for a while before she finally approached me as I knew she would, having watched her perform this little game with several different men over the four month period I had spent observing her and learning about her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She sat down beside me, eying me so intently I could swear there was a hunger lurking behind her eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I smiled and gave her my name, telling her I was pleased to make her acquaintance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She offered to buy me a drink, which I politely declined, telling her that it is only polite that I buy the drinks for her, not the other way around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She accepted my kind offer and soon we were chatting it up, time was passing so quickly that before we knew it last call had come and gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was more than a little drunk at that point and asked me if I would like to come back to her place where the setting would be a bit more intimate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I, of course, agreed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She led me to her car and asked where my car was, I told her that I lived near the club so I had walked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She nodded, accepting that explanation easily enough, then got into her car and unlocked the passenger side door for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The interior smelled heavily of the leather it was covered in, mixed with the intoxicating scent of her perfume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I very nearly couldn't help myself as I leaned over to kiss her lightly on the cheek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She murmured something I couldn't quite make out, then turned, kissed me deeply and smiled as she pulled away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She stumbled inside, flicking the lights on, never looking back at me as I followed her and shut the door gently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I slowly approached her from behind, kissing her shoulder gently before spinning her around and allowing my mouth to seek hers, it isn't hard to find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She kissed me eagerly and I responded in kind, she didn't even feel the needle as I slid her skirt up, slipping it into the firm muscle of her buttock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We made our way to her bedroom, stripping off clothing as we go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were almost to the bed before her legs gave out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I picked her up and carried her the rest of the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lay her gently on the bed and one thing turns into another, past and present merge as her voice calls my name in the throes of passion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I collapse beside her, as my body gives out from exertion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look at her and can tell it was as good for her as it was for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lounging beside her, as I catch my breath while she whispers sweet nothings in my ear, time ticks slowly away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As minuets pass I gather my thoughts, knowing what is yet to come, anticipating the ritual that will make her mine for good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Climbing out of the bed after that seemed like hours, though was just mere minuets, I stand and gather her in my arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I carry her into the bathroom and am pleasantly surprised by the sight of a rather large spa styled bathtub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting her in the tub, I spot a bottle of scented bubble bath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I turn on the water and make sure it is not too hot or cold, then add the scented bubble bath to the water, making lilac scented fluffiness on the water’s surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bending down, I kiss her on the forehead and inform her I will be right back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I move back into the bed room, looking around for fresh sheets, I find some on the top shelf in her closet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stripping the dirty sheets off the bed and replacing them with the clean sheets, I make up the bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I move on to the kitchen, looking for garbage bags.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find what I am looking for and return to the bedroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bagging the old sheets up takes only seconds and I almost forget to grab the condom I had used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With the basic clean up done in the bedroom, I return to the bathroom to check on the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tub is nearly full.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I turn off the water and begin to bath Clarissa gently, washing her entire body, cleansing away anything that might sully her perfect skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before long her skin begins to glisten like morning dew in the first rays of a rising sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing that she is sufficiently clean, I turn my attention to her golden hair. <br /><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I grab a nearby bottle of shampoo and gently begin to work her hair into a lather, taking steps to avoid tangling her lovely hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon finishing with her hair, I lift her gently out and towel her body off, making sure I get every last drop of water I can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With her body now dry, I sit her down in a chair and begin to dress myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look at her damp mass of hair when I finish and begin to search for a hairdryer, it doesn't take me long to find one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon her hair is dry and brushed with a gently tousled look that I soon correct, fixing it into loose curls using a curling iron that I found with the hairdryer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her hair is soon a vision of perfection, like that of a doll, so perfect it almost seem surreal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I search some more in the bathroom and coming up with plenty of options for her makeup and nails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I apply the makeup expertly and step back to admire my work, the doll comes to life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I paint her well-manicured nails a crimson red to match the lipstick I had picked for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tell her I will return shortly, then leave locking up behind myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I walk down the street to the parking lot I had stashed my car earlier that night before catching a cab to the club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Driving myself home, I look back at what a success tonight has been so far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not often things go so smoothly, but tonight has been nothing but smooth sailing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-86774221238661664682012-04-11T17:14:00.000-07:002012-04-11T17:14:12.510-07:00The Exercise in Futility<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What is it like to be me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many of you just do not and cannot understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a struggle daily that I go through just to be me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I could make you feel the way that I feel in hopes that it would give them some insight into what I deal with day in and day out, yet that is beyond me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can I articulate my version of reality to the world?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can I make you know a tenth of the pain I feel so that you would understand and not lash out at me from fear of what you can’t truly comprehend?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, the closest think I can think of is to try to present an analogy that will hopefully demonstrate what everyday life is like for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To start off, close your eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, imagine yourself, or rather, your self-image, got it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now open your eyes and go to the nearest mirror and look in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does what you see in the mirror look at least similar to your self-image?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It should at least be close to what you saw in your mind’s eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now imagine that instead of seeing yourself in the mirror you see someone of the opposing gender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In this scenario you are still yourself, in all regards, same personality, same likes and dislikes, same preferences, but whenever you look into that mirror you see the other person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now because you see that other person in the mirror, you know that that is, for all intents and purposes, how the world sees you despite that in your mind’s eye and even your dreams you see yourself differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is what you look like physically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since this is what you look like, people are going to treat you accordingly and expect you to act accordingly, if you do not, then you are a freak and a danger to society, therefor you are under threat of attack if people find out about the inner you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So you learn to play the role that fits your outer shell in order to hide who you really are inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You do this every day of your life, day in and day out, never letting that inner you out even though you only want to be able to be yourself and be accepted for who you really are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You keep him/her caged inside, locked away for your safety and sanity as you play the role that has been dealt to you by God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are never able to freely be yourself or express yourself, you can only be the person that society dictates you must be whether you like it or not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">That is an idea of what my life is like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sucks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has sucked ever since I was young and started getting my behavior corrected by the people around me lest I stand out too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That little exercise pales in comparison to the way it actually feels to live my life, but I hope that it helps you to understand the pain I feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, what is it like to be me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many of you do not understand but maybe if you try then the world will be a little bit brighter for people like me.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Why can’t I say what I mean to say when I speak?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to convey my thoughts and feelings in an effort to express myself through speech yet only incoherent noise escapes my lips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter how hard I try, how hard I struggle; the words just don’t come out right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I want to do is speak my mind, to let people know who I am and what I think, yet as always it comes back to the fact that I cannot speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I think it comes from the need to hide who I am from the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All my life I have been told that I had to conform to the role that society has set for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was growing up every time I did something that did not fit into the role that someone thought I should fit into, I was mocked and ridiculed, told I was a freak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overtime I learned to fit into the role that had been defined for me, conform lest I be destroyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of this I am an actor, an actor of the stage of life, one of the best actors that have ever lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have the whole world fooled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They look at me and they see exactly what they expect to see, the person that they think I should be and it only cost me my voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The world sees the shell, not the person inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they could see to my core they would see that she is screaming in frustration, desperately wanting to be heard, yet I keep her locked away as the thirty two years of my life have told me I should.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her eyes are filled with tears of frustration at not having a voice, being able to watch life go by but not able to do anything to affect it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If she were to show herself, and the world was to see her, then all the hate, all the pain that led to where she is now would be heaped once again upon her shoulders and it would break her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She wants to be free… I want to be free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This life of hiding is slowly killing me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am tired of hiding behind this façade I put up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am tired of having to fit the role that people have thrust upon me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am tired and I just want it all to end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not fair that I was forced to live this life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t want it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it wasn’t for the one that I love above all others I believe I would have chosen to end this long ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is the only one who has ever listened to me and accepts me for who I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She doesn’t judge me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She makes life bearable when I think it is getting to be too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, despite the fact that I can be myself around her, even in her presence I cannot speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The struggle is still there no matter what.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The struggle is still there, no matter what.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try as hard as I can, yet I struggle still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes me want to scream, to shout, to cry and to lash out to try to force it due to the frustration that I am filled with due to my inability to express myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I just don’t know what to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just want to be able to be myself without fear of the world and the people in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is enough to make me wish that magic were real so I could just magically correct the issue that has led me to hide myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately that is not the way reality works though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Perhaps if I were braver then maybe I could present my face to the world for all to see, yet I am a coward and I know it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see other people that are just like me that are willing to do what they feel that they must, opening themselves to attack, and I am jealous of them and the spine that they have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to be them so bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I was them then I wouldn’t have to be me, I would be braver and not have to live in fear… at least that is what I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I wonder if they had to deal with the same kind of thoughts that I deal with in this regard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But, as much as I sometimes wish I could be them, that doesn’t change the fact that I am me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I hide, I cry, I hurt and ache.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I struggle daily with these thoughts, knowing that nothing will ever change because of my fear and cowardice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that with what little I have said here I still have barely scratched the surface of what I wanted to say but, as I have mentioned before, I cannot speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have tried to speak my mind and use my voice but I know that I have not articulated even a tenth of what I feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh well, life goes on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe one day I will find my voice once more, but till then I hide, I cry, I hurt and I ache.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-80799972008834388072012-03-13T10:00:00.000-07:002012-03-13T14:52:35.371-07:00Into The Fray, A New Character Appears<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Figured I would post an update for everyone on how the new novel is going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far I am only a little over 18k words into “Tears of the Western Moon” which, considering I am not writing on the weekends (which believe me is kind of hard because I do want to write) and only aiming for the tiny goal of 1k words per day of writing, I think I am doing well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am maintaining my pace and not rushing the novel which was the way I wanted to do this one to see if I could avoid a lot of the errors that I caught when editing “Shadow of the Western Moon”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So far, when it comes to the journal entries I mentioned in my last post, I have added only one more journal entry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now I am planning in there being about 6 to 12 total, but right now I am still working out exactly where to place each one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far I have let the placement come naturally, but I suspect that when I get down to editing this novel I will have to rearrange where they fall, but so far that doesn’t seem to be a problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Also, I am considering, due to the length of the first novel and the projected length of the second novel, that I may end up combining the two novels into one novel, making them part 1 and part 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for the third book, with what I have planned, I think it will fall around to about 100k words so the current plan is for it to stay a novel in its own right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Also, as a slight update on my characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have had a new character added to the story, though I still don’t know if he is a main character or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His name is Jackson Lee and at first he appeared to be the crazy eyed, foul smelling hobo type (Though he does clean up quite nicely) who no one would want to keep around, but, as it turned out, due to events that transpire, Sephira is able to see Jackson’s true nature and warms up to him as a friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She even went so far as to invite him to join the group as they travel southward since Jackson has not seen any of the outside world (he is from the Underground of New Babylon) and was very intent on learning what he could from her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result, I now have five characters traveling together which consists of the main three, Jonah, Alissa and Sephira, as well as two sub-characters that may or may not be main characters in the end consisting of Doctor Sliss and Jackson Lee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On top of that, there is a mysterious Ibian that keeps popping up from time to time that appears to be following the group as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In other news, I have officially sent out my query letter to the first agency that I am considering using.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Considering that this was my first time ever writing a query letter, I hope that I did a semi-professional job with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took me around 6 hours to write it as well as double and triple checking it before mailing it off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am extremely nervous about it and want to hear good news back, but I also realize that this is my first query, so as optimistic as I want to seem, I realize the chances of rejection, before even getting the chance to send part of my novel to them, is high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, as I like to say, I’m crossing my fingers but not holding my breath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Also, while I wait on a reply, I am thinking about sending my novel off to a professional editing agency to do a quick edit and possible critique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure if I should or not, but it is something that I am considering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyway, thank you for your time today and I hope that you found this little post interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry I haven’t included any more excerpts, but I hope that you will understand if I want to keep the remainder of the excerpts off the blog until I have finished the novel and gone through the editing process like I did with the first one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Till next time then, take care.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have added to the Prologue since my last post and wanted to update it for all who are interested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is probably the last time I will throw a preview of the prologue up since it will probably be edited and added to again once I start the editing process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason I added what I did is I initially felt that the prologue was too short, indeed it is still a bit short for my tastes now, but I was also struggling with how to tell some backstory that would explain how thing came to be the way that they are. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This edit is my attempt to fix that and so far I am pleased with the results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The journal entries that tell the now ancient history of the planet as well as the history of the moon, Sila, will be scattered throughout the novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main concern I have with doing this is creating a jarring experience for the reader, but fixing problems like that is what editing is all about.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So far I am over 10k words into the novel and while I am shooting for just 50k to start off, I am hoping I surprise myself and take it all the way to 100k or more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, in case you were wondering about the format in which this is written…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am writing this way for multiple reasons, one, it will make the manuscript easier to get ready for publishing if it is already in this format and font, and two, I like the way it looks in general.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They watched and they waited as time slowly passed them by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Watchers watched as they had done now for thousands of years, waiting for the sign, the sign that would tell them it was time to awaken the Sleepers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They knew that the time was drawing near, they could hear the pulse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pulse, the rhythm of life, they could hear it slowly fading. High in their orbital position above the planet’s surface they watched, they waited, they listened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All of the Organics were now gone from the station, their dreams though still living on within the Watchers and the Sleepers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Organics had built them well, made them to last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their programming was infallible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If necessary, the Watchers would wait till eternity, though they knew that that would not be the case, for the pulse was slowing, fading and soon the sign would come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then great machines would them spring into action, fulfilling their purpose once more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the vacuum of space there was little to cause damage to the great machines as they watched and waited, indeed, the biggest threat that they had experienced was a loss of power that occurred in the early days, before the Organics had all vanished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks to the Organics that had made them, the machines had an unlimited source of power which had aided them over the many years of their vigil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strategically placed mirrors that reflected light from the sun when it was on the opposing side of the planet below, kept the solar panels on the back side of the station fed, preventing another outage like that one in the early days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This prevented to station and the machines within from running out of power which was important to the task that the Watchers were charged with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Electricity sparked as the Watchers summoned the records of the past from deep within their circuitry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They didn’t know why they did this, but it seemed whenever they reflected back to the past in anyway, the records would come to fill the void of memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps it was just their programming but whenever the records would com they could not help but turn their attention slightly inward toward the record to view it, as if there was some hidden message within for them to glean despite that fact that they had watched these records thousands of times before throughout the centuries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have completed the framework of the space station Sila and have started installation on the power stations that will power the station once it is complete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far everything is running smoothly and we have had no complications to report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the power stations are complete we will then get the solar panels installed and once we have confirmation that everything is in working order we will start building that machines that will be assigned to run that station once it is complete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They should be able to aid in the construction and speed the project up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As project manager, I feel that that is the best course of action since we received word that the first of the immigrant ships will be arriving from Earth in roughly ten years’ time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That severely limits our time tables on this project but I have faith that we will pull through and have everything ready before they get here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My family should be on that ship and I can’t wait to see them once again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe this new planet will be the perfect new home for us to start over so that our children and our children’s children will have a chance to enjoy a world that is pure and free of the corruption we wrought on Earth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Yggdrasil project has been completed on the planet’s surface for some time and is awaiting our completion with the station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once Sila is complete we will unleash the Tears and pray that our calculations were correct and this planet can indeed be suitable for life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope against all hope that we were correct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we were, then the Tears working with the Yggdrasil should bring this planet to life, like a virgin Earth, that has been unspoiled by our hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope that we learn from our mistakes on Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All of us here on the Sila project are hoping that we succeed in time and that all of this will not be in vain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reports from Earth indicate that the situation there is deteriorating rapidly and all their eyes are turned to us in this faraway planet tucked into the corner of our galaxy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Soon, soon</span></u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, the Watches whispered among their circuits as the record came to a close. <u>The signal will be shown to us once again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon, we shall awaken the Sleepers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon it will be time once again, time to unleash the Tears of Sila once more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">It is official.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have started my second novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you all should know by now, my first novel “Shadows of the Western Moon” is currently going through its first proofread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was going to wait until that proof read was done and I had started finished my second edit before starting the second novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, long story short, I got tired of waiting to write it and wanted to start it while the ideas were still fresh in my head, so I have started it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The name of the second novel is going to be “Tears of the Western Moon” and it starts off just a couple of weeks after the events of “Shadows of the Western Moon”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am hoping with this one to not only expand upon the 2 main characters from the first novel, Jonah and Alissa, but also to really develop the two characters Sephira and Doctor Sliss, since they play a much larger role in this novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I am finding out as I write this second novel, the first one was just the prelude to the real journey that these four characters experiencing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Currently I am only little over 6,000 words into the new novel and like the first; my goal is 50,000 just like it was for NaNoWriMo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main difference between now and NaNoWriMo is that I am taking a much more relaxed pace this time around when writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was participating in NaNoWriMo I had to have a daily goal of 1,667 words in order to hit my 30 day goal of 50,000 words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though I was able to hit my goal of 50,000 words in 25 days instead of thirty, it was rather stressful at times, so this time around I am removing the 30 day limit from the equation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My goal is to write 1,000 words per day with the exception of Saturday and Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On those two days I am not going to write anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The second novel will be completed when it gets completed and I am not going to rush it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am hoping that by doing this, it will make the first time I edit it go a lot smoother then the first novel did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to completely rework sections of the first novel because of grammatical errors that could have been avoided the first time around if I had not been in such a hurry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">But anyway, here is a little taste of what the new book has in store for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the prologue which isn’t very long but sets things up quite nicely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the very first rough draft of this which has not yet been edited in any way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope you enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They watched and they waited as time slowly passed them by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Watchers watched as they had done now for thousands of years, waiting for the sign, the sign that would tell them it was time to awaken the Sleepers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They knew that the time was drawing near, they could hear the pulse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pulse, the rhythm of life, they could hear it slowly fading. High in their orbital position above the planet’s surface they watched, they waited, they listened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All of the Organics were now gone from the station, their dreams though still living on within the Watchers and the Sleepers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Organics had built them well, made them to last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their programming was infallible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If necessary, the Watchers would wait till eternity, though they knew that that would not be the case, for the pulse was slowing, fading and soon the sign would come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then great machines would them spring into action, fulfilling their purpose once more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Soon, soon</span></u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, the Watches whispered among their circuits. <u>The signal will be shown to us once again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon, we shall awaken the Sleepers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon it will be time once again, time to unleash the Tears of Sila once more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></u></span></div>PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-12658507157246792822012-02-14T11:37:00.001-08:002012-02-14T11:37:33.425-08:00"The Moonstones Trilogy" Information part 3<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ok, I have finish my first (rough) outline at least, that is to say, I have finished all that I am going to post. I don't want to spoil the book for anyone which is why I am leaving third section empty for when it comes to public veiwing. If someone I know really wants to read that part of the outline I will let them upon request. But anyway, here is that last little bit, once again, spoiler free. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.4.1<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – Charne is a massive ruin that once used to be a bustling city that was located in the middle of the Tulk Valley which is in the middle of the Sarphine Jungle and to the west of the Mindas Rift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also located far to the west of Ib.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ruined city is made mainly of dark grey stone that resembles marble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the buildings are craved from this stone as well as all of the giant cobblestones that make the streets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only structure that is not made of this marble like stone is the huge pyramid that sits at the heart of the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whereas most of the buildings in Charne are relatively short with flat roofs, the pyramid stands out because if it’s height.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It towers over the rest of the city with a lone temple that sits at the very top of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pyramid and the buildings within a few blocks of it are the only structures that have not been claimed by the jungle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest of the city has been slowly taken over by the plant life of the jungle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the structures on the outer edge of Charne are little more than piles of rubble due to the jungles encroachment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ruins have been long since picked over by looter and nothing of value remains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.4.2<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">History – The city of Charne wasn’t always a huge city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It started out as a small village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t until Sephira and her husband Cain settled there that the village began to grow where it eventually became the city that it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Sephira and Cain came to settle in the village, the natives of the village saw a massive population bloom as birthrates jumped and the abundance of food seemed to mysteriously increase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This led to not only the city growing because of natives multiplying, but also growing because of many people immigrating to the area to take advantage of the seemingly supernatural life bloom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Charne grew rapidly until it became the huge city that it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When her husband died of old age, Sephira became one of the main draws from both near and far to the city since she seemed to have the mysterious ability to cure any ailment short of death and old age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She set herself up as a healing woman in order to support herself, never demanding money or wealth, all she asked was that the people that she helped would help her with her basic needs, food, clothing, and repairs to the home that she and her husband had shared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As her reputation grew in not only the region, but the world as well, everyone wanted her help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This led to the ruler of Charne, a paranoid man, to make decisions behind Sephira’s back by blocking requests for her to travel to other cities to help the people there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ruler was afraid that if she were told about any of the cases that could not be brought to her that she would leave to go to them and not come back because the people that she would travel to go see would prevent her from returning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is what led to the Ibians eventually taking up arms against the city of Charne since their requests for the healer had been denied several times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ib’s king was deathly ill and the Ibians were just wanting Sephiras aid so that their king could live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the final denial came back to them from Charne, they decided that is she would not come to them, they would go and get her or, if possible, her source of power. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ib brought the full force of it technological might against the city of Charne, slaughtering all that stood in their path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The few survivors of the attack buried their dead and then mysteriously vanished into the fog of history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.5.1<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – Westerfield is a medium sized city that has not grown much over the many years that it has been around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is one of about two dozen cities of equal size that make up the Republic of Bethel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bethel rests far to the south of New Babylon across the southern Andronicus Sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Westerfield is the oldest city of the state and because of this is the capitol of Bethel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The city itself is not what most would expect of a capitol city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has a very “wild west” feel to it with how open the city is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are no real walls around the city which is customary of all the cities of Bethel, instead they have fencing that surrounds the cities with short watch towers scattered along the perimeter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Westerfield is surrounded by many acres of developed farm land that fills the gaps between it and the other cities that form the state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The farmlands all have housing and barns that are close together inside a fenced in area similar to the cities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.6.1<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – Yggdrasil, also known as “The World Tree” or “The Tree of Life”, stands to the far west of the Republic of Bethel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its branches once stretched high into the sky reaching higher anyone could have thought possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great tree was once green and full of life, supplying and abundance of life-force to the planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its massive roots once provided shelter for weary travelers and were large enough that people were known to settle under where they rose up forming a natural shelter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would take days to walk around the trunk of the great tree, not because of the obstacles caused by the root system, but because the tree itself was just that massive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But all of that is in the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great tree is slowly dying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been dying for hundreds of years, ever since Sephira was murdered at the hands of the Ibians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow her life-force was tied into the life of the great tree and once she was killed, Yggdrasil started to wilt for the first time since the tears of Sila fell upon it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now the tree is a pitiful sight to behold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its limbs are almost completely bear and what few leaves remain are all wilted and blackened with rot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wood of the tree itself crumbles to the touch as decay has taken its toll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the great tree withers the life of the planet slowly dies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was once a lush place full of life is now filled with death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is believed that the great tree can be restored but, as each day passes and the tree decays a little more, hope is turning to despair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.8.1<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – Illsa is the golden eastern moon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It rises in the northeast and sets in the south west.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Illsa is slightly smaller than its sister satellite Sila and instead of putting off a bright silvery glow as Sila does, Illsa appears to be a faint golden glow as it travels the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The light from Sila always outshines Illsa with the exception of when Sila is eclipsed by Illsa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">3.1 </span></div>PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-41084046887845494162012-02-13T13:16:00.000-08:002012-02-14T11:37:47.431-08:00"The Moonstones Trilogy" Information part 2<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I have gotten the first three cities outlined and am placing them for your viewing pleasure. I would have waited till I completed all ot the locations but as you can see, there is quite a bit of info in the three that are complete. I will add more upon finishing them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Places </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.1.1<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – New Cardeth is located on the northern portion of the Illos landmass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a huge city state that is run by a supposedly Democratic government but in truth it is ruled by The Authority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The city covers many miles of land with many districts that fill its walls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In general the city is fairly flat with only a few tall buildings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is surrounded on all four sides with natural barriers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the east are the Wastelands, a large and desolate land where few creatures live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the south there are the massive Revel Mountains which stretch far to the south, almost toward New Babylon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the East lies the great Ismouth Sea that is rumored to have a mysterious landmass on the other side of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the north is the looming Landrie Cliff, which stretches high about the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.1.2<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Districts – The city is composed of several key districts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each one of these have sub-districts in them, but those are not considered as important as the key district itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the eastern portion of the city lies the Merchant district which also houses the docks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This district is full of color and sound as shops offer everything from the mundane to the bizarre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the north is the Whitehall district only the very wealthy and the politicians live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the center of the Whitehall district lies the capitol building where the politicians make a spectacle of running things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set into the cliff that lines the northern part of the district is a structure that The Authority uses as its base of operations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason that the Whitehall district gets its name is because of the large white archways that line the streets, giving the illusion that you are inside a hallway when you are on street level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is one of the few areas that have gas lamps to light the streets and pathways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the west is Low-Town, a massive sprawl where the poorer citizens live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The streets in Low-Town tend to be muddy and worn while the buildings are rundown shacks that are constantly having random pieces of junk and scraps of metal added in order to keep them from falling apart. Low-town is also one of the few parts of New Cardeth that actually has a wall that forms a barrier against the outside world. On the other side of the wall are the fields that supply a large amount of the produce that New Cardeth citizens consume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the south is the Mining district where all of the ore that is mined from the mines in the Revel Mountains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This ore and metal production is the lifeblood of New Cardeth’s economy when it comes to trade with the rest of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.1.3<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The People – The people of New Cardeth come in all varieties and all walks of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wealthiest tend to stay in the Whitehall district where they indulge themselves with the newest technological advances in clockwork, steam power and gas power technologies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The poorest of the population tends to stick to the Low-Town and Mining districts because that is closest to the areas that they tend to labor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people of these districts are some of the happiest and most fulfilled people in New Cardeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They tend to be inventive, creating new gadgets that they then use to improve their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The merchants in the Merchant district tend to stick to the areas where they set up their shops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Merchants come from all over the world to trade in New Cardeth and because of their presence the city is booming economically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.2.1<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – Ib is a massive metallic city that is located in the center of the Wastelands, to the west of New Cardeth, far across the Thane River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has massive wall of blackened metal that surround the city to protect its citizens from the dangers of the Wastelands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All along the wall are towers where the Ibians can keep watch, looking for miles out into the wastes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only way into the city it through one of four massive metal gates that are several feet thick and require a complex mechanical system to open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once inside an observer would find the streets lined with black and grey cobblestones while all the buildings are made out of the same type of metal as the wall and gates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The odd thing about the metal that the structures are built out of is that the metal seems to be seamless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no evidence of any kind of cutting or wielding on any of the metal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The city has no discernible districts within its walls and all the buildings, home and businesses seem to be evenly placed around the city as if no one really had a plan when working on the layout of the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only area that really differs from the rest of the city is in the heart of the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a huge court yard that is about a mile across and has only one key feature in its center, a massive monolith that is carved with murals depicting the Yggdrasil and the story of Sephira.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main feature of this monolith is a depiction of Sephira in which the original Moonstone is mounted in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.2.3<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The People – The citizens of Ib are a strange lizard like race that are extremely technologically advanced though knowledge of how to use most of the technology has been lost over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only over the last two hundred years have the citizens started to try to learn about the technology that they possess in an effort to regain their past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has given them an edge on the rest of the world technologically which is not a bad thing for them considering how the Ibians are viewed in most places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Ibians also have a strange form of speaking which confuses most humans due to the way that they twist and rearrange words when speaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is difficult for humans to tell the difference between male and female Ibians, therefor the Ibians tend to wear clothing that matches their gender at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ibians are also able to swap their gender as a method for keeping population levels at the correct level. The Ibians reproduce by laying eggs and their young are born able to eat solid foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ibians come in a large variety of color combinations that make it easy to distinguish between individual Ibians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.3.1<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – New Babylon is a towering city comprised of an intricate mix of stone and wood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is located far to the southwest of New Cardeth and southeast of Ib on the southern side of the Revel Mountains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The city sits on the edge of the Great Manid Plateau, where it borders the Ismouth Sea. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The City itself is an impressive sight to see as it stands so tall that the top levels are sometimes hidden from view on the ground by clouds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All along the inner and outer walls of the city are colorful hanging gardens that fill the air with the light delicate scent of flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once inside the city, there is an impressive system steam powered pulleys that operate hundreds of elevators that allow for travel between the different levels of the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All throughout the city all of the wood and stone that is not covered by plant life is instead covered by intricate geometric carvings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the side of the city that faces the Ismouth Sea, there is a dock for seafaring merchants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the dock it can be seen that the city extends far below the surface at the top of the Great Manid Plateau since a portion of the city is exposed at the base of the huge cliff formed where the plateau meets the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.3.2<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Districts – The way that New Babylon is set up when it comes to districts is actually the way that most people would think that it would be set up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lower the tier of the towering city that you lived on, the lower your station in life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lowest of these tiers being the subterranean portion of the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This underground section of city houses all of the steam machines that power the city and all of its workings as well as provides heating during the cooler seasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tier above that, the one that is on the ground level as well as a few levels above, are home to a massive market area where the merchants and traders from all over come to sell their goods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above that is the first tier that is considered for civilized use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The higher you go up the towering city the larger and more extravagant the housing units become until you reach the very top which sits high above the clouds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This tier is reserved only for what are considered the best of the best, with the very top level belonging to the royal family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is here that the royal castle sits high above the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">3.1 </span></div>PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-72015333767380812112012-02-08T11:59:00.000-08:002012-02-14T11:38:05.299-08:00“The Moonstones Trilogy” Information Part 1<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I have decided that before I start writing on my second novel I should probably make an outline of details and information about the first book so that I don't forget anything when writing the second book. I figured I would share this outline with the people who are interested in reading my book, so I have kept it a spoiler free as I could. I have only completed the People of Interests section so far, but will be adding to this soon, which I will then post. Enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“The Moonstones Trilogy” information</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">People of Interest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.1<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Jonah Jacobson </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.2.2<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – Alissa is a beautiful young woman who appears to be about the age of 18 with long jet black hair that is full of natural loose curls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her skin is a light caramel color and her almond shaped eyes are emerald green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has a thin yet shapely figure with long legs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is about 5 foot 6 inches tall and has long full eyelashes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.3.1<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Age – 41</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.3.2<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – Rasheed is a short heavy set man who stands about 5 foot 3 inches and looks to be perpetually happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has darkly tanned skin, short black hair and dark brown eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His face is smooth shaved and prone to smile lines at the corners of his mouth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.3.3<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">History – Rasheed comes from a merchant family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of this he grew up in the business of trading and has seen much of the world over the 41 years of his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he was 20 he married his wife Lilly, who was 18 at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One year later they had a daughter. Alissa, then ten years later Rasheed and Lilly had a second child, a son they named Basheer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never one to pass up a potentially good deal to made he has traveled to places like Ib where only a few merchants go due to fear and distrust of the Ibian people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.3.4<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Personality – Traveling Merchant Extraordinaire </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.4.1<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Age – 38</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.4.2<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – Lilly is a beautiful woman with pale skin and long, straight blond hair that she keeps in a tight bun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her eyes are green and she is about 5 foot 8 inches tall with a thin, shapely build.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking at Lilly you would be able to see where Alissa got most of her looks from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.4.3<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">History – Lilly was born to a merchant family, the Lockheart family, which was a rival to Rasheed’s family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After years of rivalry the two families set down together to try to find a way to overcome their differences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rumors as to why the two families decided to do this vary depending on who you ask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless, at the meeting, then 16 year old Lilly met then 18 year old Rasheed for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two families decided after much debate (6 months of it) that the best course of action for them to take would be to divide up what trade routes each family would use in order to avoid the fierce competition that they had been having with one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the time that the families were working out what to do, Rasheed and Lilly had started meeting in secret and a budding romance started to grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the families reached a consensus on the proper course of action to take, it looked like Lilly and Rasheed would never see each other again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Together they decided to bring their romance out into the open in an effort to be able to stay together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The families came together over the relationship and insisted on a marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the couple was married two years later, they were granted the ability to travel all of the trade routes that were divided between the two families as long as they supported each family equally in their endeavors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.5.1<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Age – 10</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.5.2<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – Basheer closely resembles his father in completion and hair color but his eyes are the same color as his sister and mother’s eye color.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is very slim in his build and stands as 4 foot 2 inches tall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.5.3<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">History – Basheer doesn’t have much of a history that is of any significance due to his age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.6<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Doctor Sliss</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.6.1<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Age – Unknown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.6.2<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – Doctor Sliss is an Ibian female.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stands around 4 feet tall and has dark red (almost crimson) scales that have lavender colored speckles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She always has a clip board out that she is constantly taking notes on and has an obsession with human anatomy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her eyes, like all Ibian eyes are large and black. They take up a large portion of her face as they do on all Ibians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her teeth are small and sharply pointed, inside a thin lipped mouth, which is also typical of all Ibians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one distinguishing feature that marks her as female to outsiders is the clothing that she wears which, once again is typical of Ibians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.6.3<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">History – Little is known about Doctor Sliss or her past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.6.4<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Personality – Quirky Scientist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.7<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Father Frances Mallory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.7.1<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Age – 78</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.7.2<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – Father Mallory is an elderly gentleman who is around 6 foot tall with stark white hair and a weathered face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His right leg is missing just below the thigh due to an injury sustained in the attack that killed Jonah’s parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has a clockwork replacement that Jonah had crafted for him as a token of thanks for taking him in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.7.3<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">History – Not much of importance that hasn’t been covered in Father Mallory’s description of Jonah’s history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.8<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Sephira</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.8.1<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Age – Exact age unknown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Best estimates put her at around 1200 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.8.2<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Description – Sephira appears to be a gorgeous young woman of around 16 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has long straight silver hair and silver eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stands about 5 foot 4 inches tall and has a petite build.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In her the center of her stomach there is a large silvery gemstone that glows softly most of the time but can glow brighter under the right situations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.8.3<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">History – Much of her true history is not known other than the legends that the Ibians tell about her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was born after her mother was kissed on the womb by a tear from the western moon, Sila, on the night that the moon’s tears revived the great tree, Yggdrasil. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Sephira was growing up she fell in love a young man named Cain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After her mother died, Sephira and Cain (whom she married) started to wander the earth, trying to find a place of their own to call home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually they settled in a tiny village call Charne which in time grew up to be a massive city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, Cain died of old age while Sephira lived on, eternally young.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She remained in Charne until the day the Ibian people (Who were normal humans at the time) came seeking the power of the stone that was in her belly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was raped by the soldiers of Ib before the stone was cut from her belly and she was left to die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The few remaining living people in Charne buried her in the same tomb that her husband Cain was buried in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Stone was taken to Ib and displayed in a statue where it fell dormant and the people of Ib were slowly transformed for their evil act into the lizard like creatures they are today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.8.4<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Personality – Tragic Lover</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.9.1<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Age – Unknown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Places (coming soon)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">3.1 </span></div>PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-24545828985687026052012-02-01T07:04:00.000-08:002012-02-01T07:04:23.001-08:00Before Thought<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Emptiness is void, waiting to be filled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The possibilities are endless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">As you look at the void, imagine what could be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Anything could come of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Restricted by only you, it exists for creation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It is what you make it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The worlds that could come, the characters you could meet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">There are countless paths to be chosen and followed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It will make your imagination swell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">As it grows the sights, the sounds will fill that void.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It will open, your playground to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">No matter what you wish, you can do anything there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The limit is you, don’t you see?</span></div>PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-88676824206583900352012-01-28T17:12:00.000-08:002012-01-28T17:12:41.943-08:00Message to God #2<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Have you ever seen a sky so blue as the one we lie under right now?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I feel it calling to me, reaching out to pluck me from this earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Have you ever seen an ocean so clear as the one we are floating on?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I hear the depths calling my name, calling me home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Have you ever seen a night so black as the one in my soul?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It grips my heart, clenching and squeezing, consuming it whole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Have you ever heard a cry so sad as the one to pass from my lips?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It aches and breaks me, ripping me down to the moment of my birth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Have you ever felt so betrayed as I do because of you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">You broke me before I ever had a chance, no choice was given.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Have you ever cursed someone as I now curse you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">You did this, you will never make it right, you just don’t understand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">How does it feel to know that I am your mistake and I hate you for it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I hope it burns you to your very core because you deserve no less.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">How do you feel when you see me, knowing I will never forgive?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I hope it hurts you in a way that you will never recover from.</span></div>PrincessArylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641227661167873583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852497650510371221.post-83787474399689927122012-01-23T12:07:00.001-08:002012-01-23T12:07:49.751-08:00Message to God #1<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You said you'd lift me up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You said you'd hold my hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You said you'd take my pain,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Make me understand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You said you'd cover me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You said you'd fill my need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You said you'd always care,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You stand there as I bleed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I thought you had my back,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">but now I bleed from it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I thought you loved me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">But you don't give a shit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You fucked me over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You set me up to fail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You enjoy my misery,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In my personal hell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">What the fuck did I do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Do to deserve this all?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Did you build me up,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Just to watch me fall?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I can't believe I trusted you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You always hated me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You made me your joke,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This truth I see!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is official!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have finished my first edit of “Shadow of the Western Moon”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s right, you heard me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finished the FIRST edit…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now the book is going to my faithful proof reader to tell me where, how and why it sucks…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But enough negativity, I finished the first edit and that is all that matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reading through the novel I found numerous errors that I am rather ashamed of , but, when you take into consideration that I wrote this whole book in 25 days, I think the errors can be excused to a point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most common error that I have is using then instead of than.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grammer Nazis attack that foul mistake pronto!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyway, on a more serious note, I ended with 53,903 words in my word count.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is 16,097 words shy of the minimum that I want the final edit of this book to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once my proof reader gets done with it and hands it back with all the red lines and red ink corrections, we will see what I can do about adding those 16,097 words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">All in all, I actually deleted about 4,000 words in the editing process, but added around 7,000 words to it while editing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So an extra 3,000ish words added to the original word count is not bad by my standing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am still wondering if I should add the chapter titles like I mentioned in the last blog post. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would like to hear some feedback from the people who read my blogs on what they think. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyway, I know you all want to have another excerpt from the book so I guess I can leave you with one more just to tease and tantalize you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alissa leaned over and kissed him deeply <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when Jonah settled down beside where she had taken a prone position in order to get the most stability for the rifle. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feeling her tongue swirl gently in his mouth he gave in and kissed her in return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quickly she broke the kiss and looked into Jonah’s eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Just in case,” she started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You know, if things go bad...”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She trailed off from what she was saying then dropped her right eye to the scope before squeezing off the first round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The explosion from the shot caused Jonah’s ears to ring smartly as the rifle recoiled violently against Alissa's shoulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She took the recoil with ease as if this were a common practice for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She quickly ejected the shell and had a new round chambered, ready to fire again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jonah turned his attention back to the followers that appeared as a shapeless mass at the center of the cloud of dust that followed them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as he turned his attention back he saw a twisted, formless shape flip into the air from the mass right before another shot rang out into the air, seconds later another shape flew into the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Looking back to Alissa he could clearly see that she was enjoying herself as she fired round after round into the mass, though the mass did not seem to slow despite her efforts, if anything it was steadily drawing closer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again Jonah checked his gun before looking back to the front of the cart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rasheed worked the controls of the clockwork horses like a madman, throwing the levers wildly as he tried to push them faster than seemed possible, Lilly had a small pistol out in her right hand while her left arm was wrapped protectively around Basheer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was looking to the rear of the cart and updating Rasheed on the progress that was made by the followers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She saw Jonah watching and smiled reassuringly, despite the worry that was etched into her brow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Off to the distance Jonah could see the churning waters of the river Thane, but as fast as the clockwork horses could carry the cart, he knew that they would not reach the river in time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He turned back to rear of the cat and now realized he could see the creatures that followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could now see that it was the same type of creatures that had attacked the farmlands and killed his parents while taking Father Mallory's leg when he was a child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jonah had never seen the creatures for himself before, but he had heard enough stories over the course of his life that he knew them by sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There seemed to be hundreds of them following behind, striding impossibly fast on impossibly long legs in an effort to catch the cart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their writhing skin and morphing bodies caused him to shudder in revulsion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The creatures came at them moving quicker than Jonah could have ever imagined that they could move and soon they were nearly upon the wagon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jonah stood up, took aim with his revolver and pulled the trigger for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The recoil was much stronger than he anticipated and it knocked him backward onto his ass as the creature he shot seemed to disappear in a spray of blood, bone and gore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alissa paused in her shooting long enough to look at Jonah's gun in amazement before going back to work picking at the mass of creatures as fast as she could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Struggling back to his feet Jonah heard a small crack from behind him and knew Lilly had joined in the fray, firing her small pistol at the creatures nearest to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon as he was back upright, he braced himself as best as he could and squeezed off another round, this time he rocked back with the recoil as the creature he had been aiming at exploded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quickly he brought the barrel back down to fire again taking another out in a spray of gore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jonah soon got into a rhythm, allowing him to fire shot after shot with surprising speed that was broken only when he needed to reload as the revolver auto ejected the spent rounds as they still smoked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jonah struggled to reload the gun the first time, his hands shaking from adrenalin and the sheer power of the weapon in his hand but soon he mastered the process and found it came to him with ease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One of the creatures was now close enough to reach into the cart, going for Alissa with an elongated arm that, instead of a hand, had a large spike made of bone, which it thrust forward, seeking her flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jonah pushed Alissa to the side roughly with his left foot causing the spike to catch him in the calf, shredding through both muscle and bone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a gasp of pain Jonah fired on the creature at point blank range as it started to attach itself to his left leg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its upper torso vanished as the round hit its flesh causing the now detached spike to wither and fall to the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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