Okay, after both wandering away from the computer and then forgetting we needed a topic, I'm back!

Challenge #57, the beloved Deliberately Bad Writing, is now closed. And that was some BAD writing, y'all. Good job!

Challenge #58 is shadow, and I urge you to consider the topic keeping in mind Jung's description of the shadow self.

Or not. It could just be a sunny day. (Bonus points to anyone who drabbles Thales of Miletus. Or even knows who he is -- without googling!)

Honey, I'm a Nero Wolfe fan. Of course I know who Thales of Miletus is. Mister Math Guy!

Of course I know who Thales of Miletus is. Mister Math Guy!

And how he relates to this week's topic?

Huh. No, there you've got me. Unless you're thinking about his astronomy stuff?

(/dumb)

Thales of Miletus is believed to have measured the height of the pyramids (well, one pyramid at a time) by measuring its shadow at the moment when his *own* shadow was his exact height.

Keen, huh?

OK, that really is cool.

I am not going to be the first off the draw on the new challenge today, though, because I've just written close to two thousand words on Cruel Sister and I need both a breakfast break and a beta read.

Bev? Anyone? Usual beta stuff, feedback, does it flow, is it suspenseful, does it ring true?

this could be fun . . .

A Conversatation

Remember the legend of Peter Schliemel?

She responds to the interior voice. "No."

Yes, you do.

"Go away. Be quiet."

Schliemel was a German boy, who hated his shadow. He was afraid of it; he wanted it gone. He managed to get rid of it.

She thinks about memory, about grief, about loss and reclamation. She's already sure this story has a moral, one she won't like. "And?"

He was miserable forever after.

"What does that have to do with me?"

If you don't know, you aren't paying attention. Now go play with your nice shadow. Your past? Is now.

deb, that gave me the shivers and the willies.

Excellent, deb.