Nightmare last night. Don't know if this is good surreality or just word salad.
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Short Bus to Brazil
Plants hang from the ceiling. Green tendrils brush past windows, brush widows who crowd the road we travel. All seats filled, all aisles crowded. Each stop plucks us from crowds, from clouds. Of dead? Of survivors? The crush pushes us to the rear, miles past the backseat. Yet somehow we still ride the bus, ride the short bus heading endlessly down, endlessly south. Where is our stop? Maybe they'll let us off someday, someday when we've gone all the way down, all the way South, as far South as there is. Maybe they'll let us off when we reach Brazil…
Oooh, I like that Typo. Creepy.
Thanks Sail. Is it clear that the idea that Brazil is "as far South as there is" is the character's confusion and not the author's?
Thanks, normally I can judge my work, even when it is based on a dream. But this is not based on a dream, it is a near perfect narration of what I woke up screaming to - so really cant self-evaluate anything on this one. And yeah I know that dream narrations are the stories you make up as you wake up, but still a difference between grabbing of bits of one, and writing down what feels like a close and fairly complete narration. Zero distance. Zero ability to judge.
Zero distance. Zero ability to judge.
Dreams are weird that way. You wake up in a total cold sweat, but when you look at it later your brain is kind of WTF? Part of your brain is going "dude, it was a dream" and the lizard part is just going "aaaeeeyyyeeee."
Typo - really nice vision. Except for the waking up screaming. You got it on paper though; that's something.
Both backseat and green prompts are now closed.
This week's prompt is barter.
The barter prompt is now closed.
This week's prompt is slick.
Possibly of interest to our writers:
"Live Long and Marry" is a fannish auction going on right now to benefit equal marriage rights.
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In addition to all the fanfic and fanart that's on offer, there are many other things, including critiques by published authors, signed copies of books by Jo Graham and Pamela Dean, and other entries I'm still paging through.
"The auction will raise money for the fight against the California initiative which will legally destroy existing same-sex marriages and ban any further ones. If the initiative passes, it will write discrimination into the state constitution, annull existing marriages, and make Mr. Sulu cry."
