Month: December 2021
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Happy New Year
All across the world and in nearly every civilization people will be celebrating the new year. Wishing the old a farewell, fond or otherwise and hoping the new one is better than the last one. We’ve had an interesting few years and one day after my story is written down for the late 2010’s I’d…
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Almost Forgot
AJ almost forgot to post today. It’s almost a sickness. But honestly, AJ started her support run, then started trying to make a dragonborn character with photo manipulation and then forgot all about my post. I mean come on! Who could forget me? Apparently, AJ can. All the fucking time. I am eager to get…
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Cat’O’Nine Tails
Today’s word bend doesn’t exactly fit any words we are going to talk about today. AJ has been watching Outlander. The male role lead, Jaime was strapped before she met her. Which pulled at some heart strings for me and my story and the brutality of what was done to me. But first the train…
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MaGic Words
There are just some words that invoke imagery so vivid you can’t think of anything else. The word thrust is one such word. I know the definition. And AJ uses it regularly, but my twelve-year-old boy mind goes to the immediate images of sex. The word itself means exactly what one would do with a…
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Tissues
I don’t suppose I’ve every said AJ is a sap. Not only does she sometimes make herself cry living in my world — her words or stories running in her head will put her in tears. She tortures herself with sappy shows and movies knowing fully well she’ll cry. We really should buy stock in…
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Next Year
So in January, AJ’s going to attempt to use The Daily Spur prompts to give us something to talk about. At least for January weekdays. The weekends will be something prewritten and we’ve not decided yet. AJ’s planning on finishing up the rewrite on The Call of the Dragon, and work on getting that through…
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Merry Christmas
Those Drabbles were kinda fun. AJ enjoyed writing them. We might pull them out a bit more often. We do need to keep a list of them. Perhaps well have another series of them. Though might need a topic. So if anyone has a specific or generic topic we’d love to hear from you. I…
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Drabble Day 24
It It was the first time I’d spent the night with Sage. We were eleven. Sage found his dad’s collection of VHS tapes and one labeled “It”. Curiously, as Sage always did, he popped it in and we watched the story unfold. I learned about monsters every day of my life. They didn’t scare me.…
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Drabble Day 23
beach The water was warm in the August sun. The sand was scorching under my feet. I swam into the ocean away from the world. A current took me under, it swept me out to sea. I kicked and screamed and swallowed the salty water. I am not a fish and the salt burned my…
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Drabble Day 22
cursed The scourge roamed the earth since time began and few hunters were courageous enough to find them and kill them. My name is Vladimir Bernstein, and I hunted vampires and other supernatural creatures. Until I hunted a rogue witch. She didn’t appreciate it. When I had her cornered and about to make the slice…
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Drabble Day 21
Bully The blonde at the end of the hall hadn’t seen me yet. I slipped into the bathroom and breathed a sigh of relief, but it was interrupted when the door swung open and those dull blue eyes stared at me with a malicious grin. “You thought you’d get away?” There was no escaping it…
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Drable Day 20
Apple Pie My mom wasn’t always so bad. I have one memory just before my spark. We were baking. Mom would measure out the ingredients. I poured them carefully into the bowl and stirred everything together. Mom would roll out the dough and cut it into place while I bounced on the other side of…
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Drabble Day 19
T.O.N.Y. A fountain gurgled happily nearby as I stomped through the moonlit courtyard. A young boy with dusty brown hair swung a stick on the edge of the fountain. He slipped. I caught him before he splashed into the water below. His smile was bright. Even I had no choice but to return it. He…
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Drabble Day 18
The Hunger Freedom after 50 years. The first 25 I learned control. The second… the hunger grew. I walked through a village near my former home. The pulse of the villagers, the only sound I heard. The night blurred in a mixture of blood and hunger, torn out throats, and screams echoing on the dead…
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Drabble Day 17
Greatest Challenge Dreams are full of possibilities, but when a soul can manipulate them, there is a danger inherent in it. Death in a dream with a dream walker is real — forever real. And the law mandates death for any dreamwalker found. Tracking a dreamwalker was my greatest challenge, and today I found him.…
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Drabble Day 16
Choosing Death Being torn to pieces by a bear isn’t the worse way to die. I’d have preferred it. Lying in a hospital bed with your shit son by your bedside is worse. It was his fault we were in that den in the first place. I never would have led if he wasn’t a…
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Drabble Day 15
Controlled Accident Being 6 wasn’t any easier than 5 was. And here there were a lot more expectations. Control was important — especially for a firestarter. My teacher had peculiar methods — dreamscape torture to augment fear to control my power. Nearing my acceptance into the normal school day at the Academy, my teacher upped…
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Drabble Day 14
Meeting My Father “I’d like you to meet your father.” Dorian said. The door to his office opened and my fucking idol walked in. He stood in the doorway, glowering at me. “I don’t see why I have to be here, Dorian.” Kai said softly. “He’s 18. He’s graduating, and it’s time you both knew…
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Drabble Day 13
Meeting My Idol Everyone knew Kai Viddens as a great hunter. One of the best. I looked up to him. I spent the morning pacing around my room in the academy the day I was going to first meet him. It was a Saturday, my usual Saturday lunch to spend with Dorian and his family.…
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Drabble Day 12
Meeting Sage Every week I meet with Dr. Margo on Monday at 9:30 and I’m always early. Ms. Megan is usually the only one here, but today a boy sits in my spot on the couch. His dark blue eyes shimmer with tears. He moves to the other side of the couch. I sit down.…
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Drabble Day 11
Saving Abby The moon was full last night. The sun is high in the sky now. A mundane reported a larger-than-normal-wolf in Central Park — had to be a therian. I am assigned a new mission — kill the wolf and cover it up. But I won’t. Tracking the beast was easy. Not killing a…
The Mind of Nox 