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Okay, so here the first "part" of my new story "The Genesis Project"
You may have heard the name being thrown around a few times in the past.
I'm finally writing it as a story now.
I'm not over-the-moon happy with my writing at the moment.
I think it's because I havn't written anything in quite a while.
Any comment's or criticism's will be (mostly) well recieved.
Title: The Genesis Project
Rating: PG
Story: The Genesis Project
Prompts: Rocky Road #13 “Library”, Carrot Cake #10 “Listen” and Green Cheese #18 “Planet”
Word Count: 803
Summary: The beginning of the story in which Adria finds herself thrown into an alternative universe, in a different time,
and on a different planet. This is the story before the story.
It was late, probably well past midnight, and the campus was mostly quiet. A small figure shuffled slowly out from the library, struggling under the weight of her large bag of books. It was not the first time she had left the library at this time of night; in fact for this student it was something of a common place. People often commented on the fact that she seemed to be so intently dedicated to her studies. It was all true, she often spent every night in the library studying and people did wonder why. Science had always been of great interest to her, even as a child. On a clear night she would walk into the back yard and lie down beneath the moon and the stars and just...think. How many stars were there? And who made them all? How did they come to be?
When she was older she discovered high school science disciplines such as chemistry and physics and biology. Honestly she couldn’t get enough. Of course when one spends so much time on her studies something must suffer because of it. For the girl with the large bag of books what suffered was her social life. Perhaps this was cliché but even though she was pretty and well liked, she was social inept and found it difficult to really connect with people on any meaningful level. People were very “wishy-washy” and more often than not she preferred to be alone. When one is alone one has time to think - to ponder the mysteries of life without anyone talking to you, or demanding to know why you didn’t call them back. That was something she could live without; for the most part anyway.
There was one person she spoke to on a regular basis though - someone who she trusted and got along with - someone whom she would actually put a book down for. That someone had been in her life for almost as long as she could remember. When she walked out into the back yard to lie back and think she felt him lay down beside her on the grass yet stay silent.
She would speak first to him “who do you think made it all, the stars and the planets?”
“I do not know.” He would reply, “whoever it was they sure are clever, don’t you think Adria?”
To this she would simply reply, “Oh yes Jack, oh yes.” It was almost ritualistic that this conversation take place each and every time they found themselves beneath the sky together.
Jack was similar to Adria in many ways. He enjoyed the great mysteries of the world just as much as his female friend, and upon finishing high school the pair found themselves together once more in the same degree at the same university, a fact which the pair found quite exciting.
Adria and Jack were a puzzle indeed, an enigma of sorts to most of the world. To the people that interacted with them on a daily or weekly basis they were the sort of people that kept to themselves, that didn’t interact with others, and were almost a sort of ‘snobbish’ to those around them. This could not have been further from the truth, however, because the pair had very naturally exuberant personalities that would come to life when they learnt something new of great interest to them, or when they were alone.
It was these thoughts that accompanied Adria during her walk from the library to the car that night, but they were soon gone from her mind as she reached a staircase. It was one she had walked down many times before, but tonight it seemed...different. Stopping to gather her thoughts she heard a noise, a sort of buzzing coming from the staircase, and as she neared closer and closer to the staircase she noise increased in volume and vibration. Taking a breath she shook her head and shoulders out, shifting the weight of her bag from one shoulder to the other and began to descend the stairs. It was about half way down the staircase that she began to feel a pulling sensation, and before she knew it she was pulled from her world into some kind of wormhole. Thrashing about and screaming she travelled through the wormhole, leaving behind her world and everything she ever knew, travelling faster than light or sound. It seemed like an eternity before she reached the group, but when she finally did she stood up, brushed herself off and looked around.
This place was unfamiliar to her, and she had never seen it before. She had no idea where she was or how she had arrived there but there was one thing that she did know - that she was on another planet. Adria was not on earth, anymore.
You may have heard the name being thrown around a few times in the past.
I'm finally writing it as a story now.
I'm not over-the-moon happy with my writing at the moment.
I think it's because I havn't written anything in quite a while.
Any comment's or criticism's will be (mostly) well recieved.
Title: The Genesis Project
Rating: PG
Story: The Genesis Project
Prompts: Rocky Road #13 “Library”, Carrot Cake #10 “Listen” and Green Cheese #18 “Planet”
Word Count: 803
Summary: The beginning of the story in which Adria finds herself thrown into an alternative universe, in a different time,
and on a different planet. This is the story before the story.
It was late, probably well past midnight, and the campus was mostly quiet. A small figure shuffled slowly out from the library, struggling under the weight of her large bag of books. It was not the first time she had left the library at this time of night; in fact for this student it was something of a common place. People often commented on the fact that she seemed to be so intently dedicated to her studies. It was all true, she often spent every night in the library studying and people did wonder why. Science had always been of great interest to her, even as a child. On a clear night she would walk into the back yard and lie down beneath the moon and the stars and just...think. How many stars were there? And who made them all? How did they come to be?
When she was older she discovered high school science disciplines such as chemistry and physics and biology. Honestly she couldn’t get enough. Of course when one spends so much time on her studies something must suffer because of it. For the girl with the large bag of books what suffered was her social life. Perhaps this was cliché but even though she was pretty and well liked, she was social inept and found it difficult to really connect with people on any meaningful level. People were very “wishy-washy” and more often than not she preferred to be alone. When one is alone one has time to think - to ponder the mysteries of life without anyone talking to you, or demanding to know why you didn’t call them back. That was something she could live without; for the most part anyway.
There was one person she spoke to on a regular basis though - someone who she trusted and got along with - someone whom she would actually put a book down for. That someone had been in her life for almost as long as she could remember. When she walked out into the back yard to lie back and think she felt him lay down beside her on the grass yet stay silent.
She would speak first to him “who do you think made it all, the stars and the planets?”
“I do not know.” He would reply, “whoever it was they sure are clever, don’t you think Adria?”
To this she would simply reply, “Oh yes Jack, oh yes.” It was almost ritualistic that this conversation take place each and every time they found themselves beneath the sky together.
Jack was similar to Adria in many ways. He enjoyed the great mysteries of the world just as much as his female friend, and upon finishing high school the pair found themselves together once more in the same degree at the same university, a fact which the pair found quite exciting.
Adria and Jack were a puzzle indeed, an enigma of sorts to most of the world. To the people that interacted with them on a daily or weekly basis they were the sort of people that kept to themselves, that didn’t interact with others, and were almost a sort of ‘snobbish’ to those around them. This could not have been further from the truth, however, because the pair had very naturally exuberant personalities that would come to life when they learnt something new of great interest to them, or when they were alone.
It was these thoughts that accompanied Adria during her walk from the library to the car that night, but they were soon gone from her mind as she reached a staircase. It was one she had walked down many times before, but tonight it seemed...different. Stopping to gather her thoughts she heard a noise, a sort of buzzing coming from the staircase, and as she neared closer and closer to the staircase she noise increased in volume and vibration. Taking a breath she shook her head and shoulders out, shifting the weight of her bag from one shoulder to the other and began to descend the stairs. It was about half way down the staircase that she began to feel a pulling sensation, and before she knew it she was pulled from her world into some kind of wormhole. Thrashing about and screaming she travelled through the wormhole, leaving behind her world and everything she ever knew, travelling faster than light or sound. It seemed like an eternity before she reached the group, but when she finally did she stood up, brushed herself off and looked around.
This place was unfamiliar to her, and she had never seen it before. She had no idea where she was or how she had arrived there but there was one thing that she did know - that she was on another planet. Adria was not on earth, anymore.