Hell
The light is too bright. My eyes close and my head turns away. The light comes and goes. A wet cloth wipes my face. Faces come in and out of my vision. The faces look vaguely familiar, but they keep changing. There are always hands, lifting, pulling, combing out the snarls in the hair. The sheet goes away and comes back. There is always noise: sometimes soft and murmuring, sometimes too bright like the light. The noise used to mean something, but the meaning slipped away like everything else.
Something is holding my hand. Why won't it let me go?
Ginger, the ones you've done on this category have basically blown me apart. They're amazing.
I think this has been a great category for everyone. It's a shame we're so familiar with hell.
She pulls her feet in closer. Sand pushing up against her reminds her to luxuriate in its warmth, and she sifts the fine grains through her fingers. The water is a regular hiss and slap against sand and stone. It whispers naptime to her, but she fights it, because she can hear him squeezing orange juice in the kitchen. There'll be champagne in it, because there's been champagne in every drink of the past few days ... unless there was rum.
In the moment before he joins her she memorizes blue against blue, the sea against sky, crystal against eternity.
- popping out of lurk, playing ketchup, feeling like the u of w sucks all the language out of me, and basking in the wonderful words of the buffistas*
Since I noticed querying came up, I was hoping to get some pointers as well. I have a film essay I was hoping to query a few magazines about. Is there a simple form query anyone might have offhand so that I could get a basic idea of what the professional model for one is?
(edited because I "basically" use the word "basic" to the point of "basic" death.)
I just got hired by one of the biggest lighting design companies in the country to write press releases--$300 a pop!
Not exactly the Great American Novel, but a paying writing gig!
Brynn, I can email you a few once
I'm back on my other computer.
