August 2009
2 posts
FIVE (2008 Draft)
It was like seeing into eternity. It thrilled him, ripping at him in a way that was almost like terror. It could only have been the sea, and it was stretched out in front of him like a desert. He became aware after some moments that he was seeing through another’s eyes, that he was standing in another body on the peak of a tall cliff several hundred meters above the water. The man’s...
FOUR (2008 Draft)
“Your uncle?” “Yes. He is the lore-father at Roll. He is the only one of us left to have ever met one of your people. The people have chosen him and his wisdom to keep them for more than two-hundred season cycles. He will be lore-father until he dies.” The blue man looked upon the green man again, this time noting all that he might have missed on first glance. He was a...
March 2009
3 posts
THREE (2007 Draft)
He was given almost no warning before the first claws raked his naked back, and he grunted when impossibly long teeth sank into his shoulder. Then he was being flipped up, jerked away from Hunla’s helpless figure, and he heard the snarls of the creature that had found them. A moment later he was on his back in the dust, and he put his arms up to ward off the coming assault. It didn’t come. He...
TWO (2007 Draft)
Their route had taken the blue man back across the river in which he’d awoken and up the riverbank on the other side. By the time they’d gotten that far, the presence of the reapers in the burned out hole on the other side was impossible to ignore. It was the reason Grell and the woman (whose name was Hunla) had instructed him to cake his body in mud, so they wouldn’t be seen by a patrolling...
ONE (2007 Draft)
It was the heat that woke him; sharp and stinging heat that bubbled up from underneath, turning his chest from the hot rocks and his back from the sky. His feet, the only parts of him cool (the only parts of him wet), lolled like bobbers in the spraying rush from where he’d come. He blinked open eyes that saw with incredible clarity, and twisted to take in his surroundings.
He’d...