Drabble catch-up, and Input on narrative tense appreciated

[huinare]

Firstly, in resuming work on the ‘Natural Disasters’ Tolkien_Weekly challenge, I decided to assemble the whole series to date here in case readers forgot what the Void my drabble series was about during the month-long intermission (it’s about the siege and destruction of Utumno, and thus highlights shenanigans by some of my usual suspects).

Secondly

Comments

[pandemonium_213]

Why not simply change the verb tense in the first drabble to present tense? That's my recommendation. Think of this collection of drabbles as a series of paragraphs in a short story (and that's really how they read) so it seems only logical that the first of the series should be written in present tense since you do not have the luxury of transitional sentences in the structure of a drabble series.

[huinare]

Changing the first one to present tense did occur first as the most intuitive option, but immediately some inner voice that likes to admire the grass on both sides of the fence piped, “What if it read better if instead all the subsequent drabbles were changed to past tense?!”
I tried skimming it in my head with both tenses, but neither sounded better to me. In my indecision, I thought disinterested parties might see something I’m not seeing.
Thanks for your thoughts, Pandë!