Posts Tagged ‘Monoliths’
Oct
Traveler
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Curiosity turned into passion. A passion to explore the unknown.
Time. Space. Alternate history. I visited them all.
And my memories unfolded…
Worlds I explored.
Arrakis. Gethen. Narnia.
Characters I observed.
Zaphod Beeblebrox. Severian.
Winston Smith.
Wonders I experienced.
Clocks that struck thirteen.
Monoliths that searched minds of
ape-like men.
Farm animals that spoke of revolution.
Gods of worlds that I was privileged to.
Wolfe. Asimov. Lewis. Clarke.
But you wondered about how I made the impossible possible.
Inventor of faster-than-light travel?
Navigator of black holes?
Man familiar with alien technology?
I responded with three simple words.
“No. I read.”
From Guest Contributor John Lane
Apr
Forgetting Redwoods
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
There are trees on the west coast you can drive through. Ancient monoliths built by thousands of years’ work: rain, floods, winters, dry lightning fires. Our grandfathers’ fathers’, storytellers gone silent over the ages, tales forgotten, archaic aching fallen into disuse, a dead language. Even the wind cannot communicate with these trees anymore.
Wander beneath their canopy, sniffing soft bark with noses pressed to red fur, hoping to draw life form the redness; to taste green needles under tongue, run thick sap through veins. But they are sealed.
And all I smell is the distant salt water licking wet sand.
From Guest Contributor Jon Alston
Jon has an MA in Creative Writing. Good for him. He writes things from time to time, and sometimes people publish them. Good for him. On occasion, he will photograph things (or people), and maybe write about them; sometimes there is money exchanged for his services. Good for him. He is married and has two children of both genders. Way to reproduce. He is the Executive Editor and founder of From Sac, a literary journal for Northern California. How about that? Currently he teaches English at Brigham Young University, Idaho among the frozen potato fields and Mormons. Good for you, Jon.
Websites: www.fromsac.com www.jaawritter.blogspot.com