Rain Date_The Past is Another Country_Kingdom of Nerriad_Strife
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Rain Date
Today is yesterday and will be tomorrow. Who said that? Macbeth, methinks. Or Vonnegut, maybe. I cannot tell them apart. It is not my fault. What beckons, confuses.This pool of blue. These azure pools. They would be alluring, were they not everlasting. Overshadowing.This cloud of gray. These drifting flocks and flecks of silver. They grimace at me, all the same, all blurred together. Perhaps they have no other nature, these clouds. They are all that has been up there for day after day. (If they cover the nights, I'll never know.)This stream of white. These rushing rivulets in snowy pallor. Op...
The Past is Another Country
2008 Sometimes it seems like it is all one big fluke. The first three books became bestsellers in a whirlwind of boundless inspiration. And with that came success and money. His fingers hover over the keypad, then backspace, and then hover again. He slumps back on his wooden chair with a wince. Shit! Sat there he thinks about back when he had the luxury of time, when he still had romantic notions about what being an author was. He remembers sitting in cafes on days when the world felt like it was something he didn’t want to get off from. A sweet, happy ride; time was plenty, inspiration was fo...
Kingdom of Nerriad
Within my realm of hidden wonder, there are worlds beyond the touch of human hands. Where the last of the ancient beings dwellwww.onedoor.cc amongst the coral reefs and sunken vessels, forgotten in the minds of generations of people yet remembered in their folklore. It is here that I, King of Nerriad, God of the Trepidatious lands and uphold our secrecy.Our Safety.I stare out at the vast lands of sea grass and sandy ruins of our ancient capital - long destroyed by the contraption humans call "sea mine". Even now as I survey the wrecked remains of our once great city, I cannot help but admire those land dwel...
Strife
You weren’t invited to the wedding, and you love weddings. There’s nothing quite like the pressure and fear and (if you’re lucky) elation that comes with good old fashioned nuptials for inciting a little mayhem. Zeus had seen Thetis bathing in the water below Mount Olympus with her sisters the Nereids; sea nymphs, shapeshifters, all of them beautiful and kind, with voices so sweet and melodious, it was said to hear them sing in harmony would cause anyone to lose their senses and begin weeping with the sheer emotion of their refrain. Sailors routinely followed the siren song to their deaths, se...