charloft - recent headscratchers
Thursday drabble: Give us 100 words on 'omission'
"What's it like?" DG asked, curious and cautious. He grinned, tight lipped, and made a joke about feeling light-headed most of the time.
There is occasionally an ache in the void to remind him that it's there. Absence should not have a presence, which made him wonder how empty the space really was. He was not half blind, half deaf, half paralyzed, what had they done-
"I feel light-headed most of the time," he said again, and DG squeezed his hand. He nodded in gratitude, deciding that the big scary world outside was safer than the ache of what wasn't within.
[From somewhere late in part 2.]
Friday: list five things you never leave home without when on the trail of Adventure, Excitement, and Really Wild Things.
1. Friends, specifically armed/magical/psychic ones.
2. A warm hat in case it gets cold. You have NO idea how uncomfortable this thing is when it gets cold.
3. A pocket tool kit.
4. A strudy stick.
5. My old coat. It got me through the wars, literally, and with a few new patches it's pretty comfy again.
"What's it like?" DG asked, curious and cautious. He grinned, tight lipped, and made a joke about feeling light-headed most of the time.
There is occasionally an ache in the void to remind him that it's there. Absence should not have a presence, which made him wonder how empty the space really was. He was not half blind, half deaf, half paralyzed, what had they done-
"I feel light-headed most of the time," he said again, and DG squeezed his hand. He nodded in gratitude, deciding that the big scary world outside was safer than the ache of what wasn't within.
[From somewhere late in part 2.]
Friday: list five things you never leave home without when on the trail of Adventure, Excitement, and Really Wild Things.
1. Friends, specifically armed/magical/psychic ones.
2. A warm hat in case it gets cold. You have NO idea how uncomfortable this thing is when it gets cold.
3. A pocket tool kit.
4. A strudy stick.
5. My old coat. It got me through the wars, literally, and with a few new patches it's pretty comfy again.