4. The Axe Forgets; The Tree Remembers

[viagra]

Monday, August 12th-7:38 p.m.

1,913 words. Approximate reading time: 9 minutes, 33 seconds.

Rhian stepped into his bedroom and softly shut the door behind him, then walked over to his bed and promptly collapsed onto it. He had told his parents that he was tired from his first day and wanted to get to bed early, and, while that was certainly true,

Comments

[murielle]

Chilling. Seriously chilling.

So very well done! As always your writing is beautiful, your pacing perfection, and your character rich and alive.

Brilliant!

[viagra]

Thank you so much! :) Hopefully I'll get to do something a little less chilling next time!

[itismeangied]

Very interesting, so well written, it really pulls you in and then whoa!

[viagra]

Thank you very much! :)

[alycewilson]

I like how all of your entries this season could put together as a collection.. This fits neatly into that dystopian world you've created.

[viagra]

Thank you! :) My goal is to actually get something that might maybe be publishable one day, and I had the idea of doing a dystopian novel as a series of vignettes, so here we are. I'm happy with how things are going so far so hopefully I'll be able to keep it up!

[alycewilson]

A worthwhile goal! Over the past 10 years, most of the poetry I've written has come from meeting the challenges of both LJ Idol and the annual National Poetry Writing Month daily challenge. That resulted in many of the poems that I put in my 2020 collection, "Owning the Ghosts."