The thirst is yours, on first waking until the end of your unnatural life. And it's only keener with age, So drink up cause there's no point in being thirsty and pissed off. —Mithias Crescentson #cleverquickies#cqu
Theme: Endless Thirst
“Don’t go,” she whispered as sunbeams split the low clouds into rainbows. She strained, stretching for the last few raindrops as they soaked the parched ground around her roots, longing for another cloudy day.—Jillian Wahlquist #cleverquickies#cqu
Theme: Endless thirst
Amphora grasped a handful of stars, hot like marbles still glowing from the forge. Their planets came with them, specks of inconsequential dust pulled into that gaping maw between the grinning lips of a goddess.
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Remembering @therealnimoy on what would have been his 89th birthday. If Dad were here today, we’d be discussing original episode “Miri” in which McCoy must develop a vaccine for a virus that kills “Grups” (grown ups). A story of persistence, self-sacrifice and kindness. #LLAP 🖖
I.O.W.A: Imagine Other Worlds w/Authors, September 7th-8th, at the @CRPublicLibrary downtown location. Come to listen to readings, visit author booths, do author speed dating (to learn about local authors, new things to read), and just to hang out!
She gasped, and air filled her lungs. It hurt. She screamed, and now her ears hurt too. But it was her voice. She was making the sound. Pure, loud, and powerful. —Jentina Grey #CQU#Cleverquickies
Theme: humble beginnings
She was violence incarnate, but his eyes softened when he saw her. Isabelle watched him as he watched her sister, he filled his heart with her and Isabelle didn't know whether to be horrified or happy for them. —T L Murtagh #CQU#Cleverquickies#writergames
The color of it was cacophonous, filling her mind with a din of voices as burbundy-red coated her fingers, pooling in her palm, warm, fragrant—alive.
Theme: Through another’s eyes/perspective
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