Kulai City – Æuum – Bravo Site – November 7th
The air in Kulai City was a thick, humid blanket of sensation. It pressed in from all sides, carrying the scent of exotic spices, street food sizzling, and the sweet perfume of alien flowers. The city was alive, a chaotic symphony of noise and light, a river of life that flowed around Wojciech and the Bride. The thrum of mag-levs, rikshaws and the distant metallic rum
Eighteen
I have to admit this is getting harder and harder with each chapter.
I am desperately trying to protect myself, but I want to keep going. Nothing quite like going to war with yourself over your own pain. I guess this is how one becomes conflicted… As writers know, we’re all a bit nuts. Characters often speak with their own voices, and hijack plots and take even me, the writer, for a ride.
Imagine sitting in a room with one of your characters staring at you, and that cha
hope that starts to answer some questions :: smiles :: and welcome to the meta plot.
A long chapter, I know, was going to be separate chapters but I needed the flow to work, and this was the best way.
Outside Washington D.C. -1993 – December 9th
The low winter sun, a pale, anemic disk in a sky, cast long, distorted shadows across the rifle range. The air was a crisp, biting cold, a clean, sharp scent of gunpowder and frozen earth that bit at the nose and made the breath plume like twin white ghosts in the stillness. Henry stood, a silent, solitary figure, his heavy flannel coat a somber island of warmth in the vast, indifferent landscape. The wind,
I dissociate, so contemplation is second nature.
Hockey or other none sports merely :: spits :: games... ?
::tucks inner Canadian back in sock drawer ::
This is becoming a book, I never intended this. This was just a project to allow me to process past trauma that defined who I am. What made me, what I was who I was, and who I would become.
The early 2000s. I was there in Ottawa on Y2K, shivering in the crisp night air as the countdown malfunctioned and the giant clock on Parliament Hill flickered and died. A profound silence fell over the crowd as we all held our breaths, wondering if that was it. The world seemed to pause for a second, bu