Monday, July 11, 2011


Worst fear has come to pass. All the stars have twinkled out and the memories - gone too, I think, as we are led like little children to our safe place. The adults flicker about the house. Whispers, worries. We're forbidden to go into the Dark but it beckons, pulling us along the ghost-trodden path to the cellar, to the shadows. "Our only chance," he breathes. "You only get one," she answers. Escape - comprised of the Dark witch, the fear, the night, and the stolen bag of gold. Red-smeared dice cackle about how foolish he was, and suddenly he wants to see the girl again, and the starless sky.

19 comments:

  1. This is beautiful. I'm glad to have found my way to your blog. x

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  2. This is lovely. As always. You are brilliant.

    xoxo

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  3. beautiful words, I've missed them! xx

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  4. How I wish we could sit side by side in a meadow speckled in wildflowers and write in each others' presence, for that's all I would need to bleed in stardust <3

    xx and hugs

    Jhordyn

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  5. Thank you for this post, dear. This is beautiful.

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  6. How darkly beautiful. <3 All of the stars twinkling out--it's an awfully frightening thought.

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  7. Thank you all. :)

    Jhordyn - One day, one day. xx

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  8. Ooh, this is just gorgeous and exudes magic. A magic tinged with darkness, of course, for that's the best kind. <3

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  9. Oh, it will be the day when I write a magic story not tinged with darkness. :P

    thank you thank you thank you
    as always, your encouragement means so much to me <3
    xxxxxx

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  10. Hehe, well... I can't wait! If anyone could do it without making it saccharine, I believe you could! :)

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  11. Woooow, I love it! And the photo goes so well with your words of a pitch-black sky :D

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  12. love. i don't think i need to tell you, for the hundredth time, what your words do to me. you already know how much i adore everything you write. ♥ sometimes, one chance is all a person needs. i want to be swallowed up in that picture forever.

    (ps, i am going to read your extract and comment on it later today.)

    all my love, xxx

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  13. Krystina, Kim, and Melee: i can`t express how much your comments mean to me <33

    Thea: ohhhh, thank you!! again. always! <3
    your critique means so much to me. i feel so honored that you even read my writing :) xxx

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  14. It matches the picture so beautifully... I can feel the darkness calling my name.

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