Writing Project Assignment from FB Writer's Group found here. "Light and Shade Challenge" "There is a picture, a quotation and a 500 word limit. The Challenge is to take whatever is sparked by the picture and/or the quotation, however tenuous or remote the connection, and see how much fun you can have in 500 words (just between us we never count them as long as we're enjoying things and you are too, but don't tell anyone)." The quotation is: "Be Prepared "- motto -- "Sweetie, I know things have been hard for you lately. You've gone through some changes that seem unfair or insurmountable. I wish that I had more of the tools that could help guide you through this time and help make some of these changes easier. I wish your mother were here, too." "But we need to talk about what's coming and we don't have much time ahead of us. There's a lot of dangerous stuff topside, and I think you have a good idea of what's out there and how to handle it. Unfortunately, I think your biggest challenges are yet to come and they're going to be coming from down here. It's going to be tough to deal with your internal changes, sure, but the bigger challenge is surrounding you now:" "Boys. Men." "The majority of the boys and men that you will meet in your life will be pieces of shit. Hell, I am a piece of shit. The difference between me and the rest of the pieces of shit in the Tunnels, is that I know I'm a piece of shit. I know it and I try to change it. People these days have no moral direction, despite the over-abundance of cults vying for that leadership role. Anyway, boys are growing up without the knowledge of what it means to be a good man. To their parents, knowing how to fish isn't important, so long as you have a fancy rod and reel. Ah, yes. Fishing. Bad analogy. Sorry, it was a hobby that people enjoyed in more hospitable times. - when we had freshwater on land. Before the sunspots. I'll tell you more about it later...there's probably something in our Archives about it, too. I'll have to ask one of our Scriptorians..." "Anyway, what I am saying is that I want to help you develop your lady-arsenal for the onslaught of poorly-raised, hormone-ridden, jackassery that is coming your way. It's my duty to have you ready for whatever comes your way and, unfortunately, the male is your biggest threat. There is no way to avoid it or prevent it. And, to be realistic, there's going to be a moment in your life when you won't want to avoid them. The allure of jackass boys, from what I remember your mother saying of me, can sometimes be irresistible - but that's not always a good thing." "We're going to get into all kinds of good stuff: awareness, self-defense, manipulation, pressure points...We will eventually get to the subtleties - ways that a young jackass can convince you to give up your sovereignty to him - but for now we are going to start at the beginning. And the beginning starts with one word:" "No." stretching out into aether
grasping nothing inviting terrors and seizures the clumsy kundalini newly hatched neophyte tongue lashing tasting the wake of the abyss attracting fears and shadows a pulsing beacon reptile emerging from reptile a cast of sine waves beams of particles the same and different 1 becomes 2 becomes 4 becomes 8 becomes 1 again periscope piercing time divining the darkness the shadows envelope and confuse swallowed dragged out of the shell into the darkness metaphysical nonexistence the pierced egg crumples the husk flattens Third becomes Fourth becomes Second inside the hyper and quantum lost within refractions from the 90 to the 45 to the 30 to the 15 then to the zero position an anagram of existence my god, it's full of nothing |
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