Tag Archives: Longer Fiction

Documents that slipped through reality’s cracks 1

On a warm Octo­ber evening of 1830, in a small mud-​hut hos­pi­tal at the heart of the new Swan River colony, the first Euro­pean child in that region was born. The birth of the young girl was cause for cel­e­bra­tion: her birth sealed the pro­duc­tive and fer­tile future of the colony.
At first she instilled awe and zeal in her fel­low set­tlers as she promptly excelled in any field of endeav­our she put in her mind to attempt. But that would soon change.

July 30, 2009 – 10:24 pm | By Daniel | Posted in Complete Stories | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Ulili

Yet another ran­dom idea for a story. I might actu­ally go about devel­op­ing this one for this year’s Nanow­rimo Ulili House­hold God — God­dess of Minds Ulili is from the Latin ulila mean­ing owl. Tak­ing the form of a young girl, an owl or a “lumena”, a ball of glow­ing energy; Ulili is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of knowl­edge, wis­dom and thought. …

May 31, 2009 – 1:32 am | By Daniel | Posted in Complete Stories | Tagged | Comments (0)

All He Can Do…

It makes him hope and all he can do is watch and pray.
All he can do…

May 29, 2009 – 12:00 pm | By Daniel | Posted in Complete Stories | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Catalyst

This was the cat­a­lyst for a bit of writ­ing I never ended up fin­ish­ing. There is a the­ory that the uni­verse began with a big explo­sion and that every­thing was, unex­plain­ably, cre­ated from noth­ing. There’s another the­ory that one day some guy, who had pre­sum­ably been liv­ing alone for quite some time, said to him­self “Gee I’m bored. I think …

May 28, 2009 – 7:20 pm | By Daniel | Posted in Writing Process | Tagged | Comments (0)