Alternaty
Imagine another turn on wheel of if - one where Ben Franklin was talked into staying in politics after the U.S. won independence - where he rather than John Adams was the second President of the U.S., where the tough and clever wild turkey rather than that fragile carrion eater the bald eagle was chosen as the U.S. national bird.
A world where treaties with American Indians were actually kept, so that escaping slaves had someplace nearer than Canada to run to - a world where the slavery never gained quite as much power as in our own world, and so was abolished decades earlier and more completely.
A world where we never took part in WWI, where we never had the isolationist backlash that produced prohibition, where cars continued to run on alcohol instead of oil.
And the small still voice of common sense in the back of my head says "Do you really think any one change would make that big a difference? Do you really think history forks that simply?"
Followed by the mocking ghost of Hemingway whispering: "Wouldn't it be pretty to think so?"
Love those, both of them.
Erika, my favorite line: "living on the government’s tiny thread, sticky like a spider’s web". That's a perfect description. I don't really think of you as particularly lyrical, but that one definitely is.
Gar, yours makes me think. I like that. I like the ghost of Hemingway floating after the list of simple changes.
Those were both superb.
Where is our dispenser of drabble topics? Teppy?
And, um, would anyone like to WIP-read the prologue for 7W? Because it's going to Daymond shortly.
Ok, Deb.
I'm not writing very much right now...I've got time.
A'ight.
Yeah, I think I'm funny.
I actually use the damned word in there, several times, but without the apostrophe....
Anyway, you have it, and quick feedback, she is my friend.
DG: I sent you the thing. You don't like my reads, but if you want one from a crusty old cranky fucker, I have got one for 7W.
New drabble topic!
Challenge #119 (advertising) is now closed.
Challenge #120 is foreign languages.
As always, if you have any suggestions for future drabble topics, please let me know!
Challenge #120 is foreign languages.
She spoke to me. There were sounds. I could only watch her lips.
Her teeth appeared, and disappeared, nipping down on a consonant. The letter 'L' made her philtrum twist in a way that was ... unbearable. The letter 'K' brought the lines of her neck into a perfect symmetry.
She wet her lips at the end of a sentence. Drew a breath, drilled her eyes into mine.
Smiled.
Continued.
I lost all audio. She hooked a stray hair behind her ear.
She could have been asking a question. All I could see was her hand, her hair, her ear.
Her lips.
