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Seeing In Black & White
There was a world where light didn’t exist; where everything was dark, so the only way you could see anything was by the highlights on the objects. Many people wondered about the existence of the highlights because how could there be highlights if there’s no light at all?One of our character’s names was Cara: a modest name for a modest girl.School was decent for Cara: it wasn’t super fun, as the dictators made sure of that, but her favourite subject was History because she got to learn about things that seemed unreal. She was a quiet, coy little girl who didn’t have any friends or siblings, so...
Roots and Hypocrisy: Becoming Grounded in the Span of One Breath
Isla sucked in a ragged breath and squeezed her eyes shut. Her auntie’s words washed over her; “I love the feeling of a thought not yet formed. Like opposing sides of a magnet drawing nearer and nearer. I can feel the frustration of my ignorance, but even stronger is the sensation that soon one magnet will flip and a new whole will materialize.” Then her auntie would launch into the familiar monologue; how far the internet has taken us from understanding she would sigh. She liked to call it” internet digging” not internet searching she would say with the same unwavering pride she always did, ...
Bird Man
When I first became aware of a man they called, “The Bird Man,” I decided it would make an interesting, “Person of the Street,” story. I became aware of this “Bird Man,” from a local tavern owner, who told me about the encounter he had had with the man. I knew I had to meet him. Apparently, he spends his days telling stories to the ravens in the park. He claimed people had witnessed as many as two hundred gathered dutifully about the benched man, listening intently to his tales. I don’t actually work for the local newspaper. It is a shoppers guide type paper, but it gives me an excuse to do r...
Where was Aphrodite?
Above the raging sea, gods fight for power.Kronos strikes at his father, Ouranos, the sky which cradled the angry earth. From the earth, the seat of her power, Gaia, watches. She was the first to be a mother, and the first to kill for her children. She will not be the last.The battle rages, but Ouranos is doomed to defeat, for Kronus is the god of time and that is the only thing that can truly kill a god. But that is of no interest to the sea, which has no gods to command it, and so only does what it desires. The sea holds life older than that of the earth and the sky. What can survive without...