My Writing- End of Days

                              
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One of the things that I am hoping to do more of here is put short stories, or story ideas etc here. Sometimes I find that an idea nags at me for weeks until I write it down, sometimes I forget them a lot quicker. I really wish I had taken to jotting down notes of ideas before this.

I hope you enjoy and all comments are welcome.


                                                            End Of Days

In all the religious texts of the world the End of Days was always going to be a loud explosive time. A time that let everyone know that the end was coming, yet if you think about it, gave us all time to repent our sins and gain forgiveness.

But that wasn't what happened at all.

The End came with no warning at all, and when it did.

It was quiet!

Deadly quiet, the quiet of sleep. And that's exactly what happened. All around the world people stopped what they were doing, put their heads down and went to sleep.

For all that it was quiet, people still died. Though no where in the numbers that had been foretold. Most of those that died were the elderly and the sick, though people unlucky enough to be having surgery died during that.

Time passed while we all slept, but no one has ever been able to work out how long the sleep last for. All we do know for certain is that when we woke the world was different.

Very very different.


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FSF- Thunder

                              
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What it’s all about: Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week Lillie McFerrin will post a one word inspiration, then anyone wishing to participate will write a five sentence story based on the prompt word. The word does not have to appear in your five sentences, just use it for direction.

This weeks prompt is Thunder.


The wind swirled and raced, arching through the trees with a life of it's own. Leaves and debris swirling and  forming their own little eddies in the air.

Lightning crackled across the sky, hissing and spitting as it went, lighting up the night as though it was day.

Immediately the sound of thunder roared through. A deep throated counterpart to the lightning.

It was going to be a very bad storm, they kind that would go down in local legends.

Books I'm Reading- Adrian Tchaikovsky

                                               


                                                 

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I read an awful lot of books but I do not always keep a record of what I am reading. So I thought it might be a good idea to keep a list on my blog, and maybe I will introduce you to some new books. One word of warning though I mainly only read science fiction or fantasy, with a smattering of other genres.


I found the above series quite by chance in one of my local libraries, however it was book 7 of the series. Now I can not stand reading a series from a midpoint, you just can never pick up what is happening. While imagine my surprise when I tried to get the first in the series and was told by the librarian that they do not have the first 6 books.

What is the point in buying just a few in a series? But I persevered and I very luckily found it at a different area library. (Yes I have multiple library cards).

The book is set in a hypothetical universe where in order to survive the humans have taken on characteristics of the local giant insects, becoming kinden. So you have ant- kinden and beetle- kinden to name a few. Some of the kinden have magic, others do not.

In this world the Empire (Wasps in this case) are slowly taking over and enslaving all the land. It is up to a beetle- kinden called Stenwold Maker to try and convince every one that the threat is real.

I have to say that I really loved this book! I've just gotten the second in the series "Dragonfly Falling" and have to make some time to read it. (And finish of the other 3 books that I am reading).

FSF- Travel

                                                                                   
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What it’s all about: Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week Lillie McFerrin will post a one word inspiration, then anyone wishing to participate will write a five sentence story based on the prompt word. The word does not have to appear in your five sentences, just use it for direction.

This weeks prompt is Travel. And I have to admit that I just could not help thinking about my Bucket List.



"Oh come on now Rick, this isn't a bucket list, its a list of countries!" Glaring May waved the piece of paper in her hands around. "Where is all the exciting things, like skydive or rock climbing?"

"Its a list of all the countries that I want to go to before I die. Ain't that enough?".

Reconsidering, May looked at the list in her hands again, it had every country in the world on it.

The Bucket List

                                        

Have you seen this movie? The bucket List with Danny Glover and Jack Nicholson? If you haven't then you really need too. I watched and loved it, you laugh, you cry, and then you think why don't I have a bucket list?

So, since I watched the movie last year, I have been trying to decide what would be on my bucket list. Two of the things, go to Disneyland and Hawaii I did in may this year. Five years before we had planned but I'm not complaining. We actually plan on going back.

But I'm kind of stumped on what the rest of my list should be. I'd love to write a novel (I wrote all the time in school). I knit and crochet and bead. I have this blog, and another currently in limbo.

But I don't really have any particular thing I want to do. Not planning on sky diving (afraid of heights). Not really a traveller, I love my home. Though I do want to visit Japan one day (to see the bonsai) and my husband and I have plans on travelling around Australia in a caravan.

So I am going to make a Bucket List page and put on it the things I want to do.

Suggestions are welcome!

FSF- Fabric

                                    
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Lillie McFerrin hosts Five Sentence Fiction (FSF) on her blog here. This weeks prompt is Fabric. Loving craft it made me think of the Greek Goddess of Fates.

Fabric:
Click click clack, click click clack, click click clack, underlying that the shuttle created a humming noise as it slid across the warp threads. With a soft smile Ella lost herself to the rhythm of the loom as slowly but surely the fabric grew.

It was so peaceful sitting and weaving,creating something that would eventually go on to become something else. Almost as she herself was growing and changing to something else.

Lost in her revere Ella jumped as a hand landed on her shoulder. Clotho, one of the Greek goddess of fate smiled down at her.

"Come, you are ready for the next step".


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Smiggens

So today was the first day of our 3 day ski weekend. My husband has been hanging out for this weekend since we booked it. The last time he skied was about ,maybe, 6 years ago. I don't ski after a really nasty accident in 2000 nearly killed me.




When we came up last one of the Harry Potter books had just been released so I spent the entire time reading and drinking coffee. I didn't bring my book up to the snow today because the plan had originally been to put our 5 year old son into a 2 hr lesson then let him play.
As what ended up happening was that since he's only 5 he is now in an all day lesson ending at 1530. He even gets given lunch. So I am sitting on a balcony writing this, every one has gone off to ski or toboggan.
We arrived yesterday to accommodation in East Jindabyne. A great 4 bedroom house that can sleep 11. We have 2 families with us, my sister in law and her family, as well as one of my girlfriends and her family.
We were all up at 0630 this morning to get here at 0800. Of course something always has to go wrong and our windscreen cracked on the way up. At least it's still intact, so I'm hoping it survives until we are back in Sydney.
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