Sat in his rack, a smaller cabin than the captain should have, Dylan collected his thoughts, deep in a #novel about the Earth-That-Was, reading about the Age of Sail and the adventures that entailed.
So much simpler. They didn’t have an unknowable Enemy to face, only the implacable ocean.
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The pages of a life,
Not pressed between the covers of a #novel,
Nor of a novella,
Not even a novelette,
But of a pamphlet,
A leaflet,
But filled with beauty and soul,
Brief, fleeting,
And vibrant.
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She wanted to write #novels. Poetry came first. For years she gathered metaphors, images & questions with no apparent destination. They accumulated in spiral notebooks. Only much later, writing fiction, did she understand. The poems had been leaving breadcrumbs all along.
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Spent the morning listening to my completed manuscript via the read aloud function in Word. So far, so good!
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