I tend the graves of those that have gone before me, and the thoughts of them tend to follow me around. I tingle in the telling and wipe the tears welling.
A lovely, captivating, curious, and graceful story, explaining why this "now" we live is a "gift" we call the "present" whether from Granny or another.
keep giving m
"Congratulations" is spelled with a t, an example of something that falls through the cracks when you're afraid to use the spell check function.
Pain or the fear of it is a useful thing when it tells you not to stick your hand in the fire. The dichotomy might be worthwhile exploring.
keep exploring m
The reality of death's black and white from a child's perspective is like being told there is no Santa Claus.
Explaining in painful detail that you cannot go through the stages of grief unless there is a context, especially for a little one.
To stand in the shoes of the child that you were once, simplifies as much as it magnifies the gulf between the two.
Have a hankie handy.
keeping it simple m
Short and sweet but graceful in the dichotomy of journey versus destination against the background of the arbitrary rule of powers that be the status quo. Taking the higher road and the one less travelled requires pondering for insight that might eventually be foresight.
keep pondering m
Chloe is imprisoned in the tower taken there roughly by something black while Kilmer and the thing behind him search for “Seth’s secret”. Bill pulls Fox out of the freezing water knowing he’s important and calls Patrick in the Forest who even in recognizing their peril knows that he and Naug are no longer captives of a spell cast long ago. The rats are on the move as pawns in a war that may require weapons from the dragon’s horde. Chance favours those that are prepared but she can be as fickle as a Puff of magic.
Impending doom??
keep preparing...
Sometimes all you can do is play for time and hope for calvary. m anticipating
Elaborate, original, symmetrical, it spirals to a landing under easy control with a good glide ratio once released to its own balance. Like folding paper airplanes to see how far they would go by being both built true and thrown correctly.
keep arranging. m
The characters talk of things amongst themselves the reader cannot hear but now that Naug is no longer captive in his cave they are either thinking that “the riverman is looking for his silver” or that they will be tested by “bad things that grow with wild abandon.” They cannot stand united as long as Chloe is lost and Sary missing, knowing only that winter is early and wicked.
Like making movies is a 'hurry up and wait' situation, all things must be in their position before the director calls "action". keep synchronized m
Lindy’s empathy, as abused as she may be, can see the writing on the wall and it’s telling her the conflict that is coming cannot be outrun just as the mice and crow making battle plans know that “nothing grows in an eternal winter”. Even Sary in her winter garden’s slumber can see the darkness descending. All are preparing to fight The Cold perhaps aware that it might merely be a symptom. Colourful m
I am an eye watching with eyebrow raised.
4-The action on the chess board slows enough to let you catch your breath to see the strategies emerging, as King Rat becomes the unwilling minion of the inkblot’s evil intent, Sary, Penn, and Lindy trying to stay warm, talk of falling autumn rain that turns to early winter snow, and Ruthy-Ru finds that murderous wolves will keep her expected guest from attending dinner. Insightful
m
Evolving as much as revolving around the Cold's coming.
The tension is pulled tighter. When the hourglass is turned over and the sand begins to run like footfalls on the beach, the one that is in the flight for his life is really running in the snow and while he does not have that far to go, safety is too far away now that evil's found its prey.
The hurry is fast paced and gravely detailed.
keep pace
m
A storyteller's conversation told with inflection in anecdote around a camp's fire, kept burning to keep the wilderness if not away, at least at bay. It is still, for the moment, yet hovers at the edges of the light in the cover of the forest and the night. The effect on rapt attention's demand is a supply that waits in its anticipation knowing that the coveted is often sweeter.
Great presentation.
keep tantalizing.
m.
A soul infected with trouble will heal itself given time, inclination and isolation. An occasional conversation about the weather will bring it to the window so that it might feel the sun, the globe still orbits. One could coax it to finally open its eyes so that it might see the webs with which it is entangled and seek the direction of its freedom. The experience of making the choices yourself even if not alone is always worth the effort.
keep healing
m
In the end of course, death always wins regardless of the paranoia that might surround its winning, for it merely has to wait. In waiting with it for that long sleep the irony is you miss your chance to appreciate the miracle of not only living but being alive.
Insightful in the perspective of what must seem the overwhelming sense of approaching doom's distraction. One generally goes in the direction that our attention is focussed.
keep distracting
m
A review without reward or its expectation.
While I have only read this second chapter and not what came before I am thinking I did not get lost but then I am familiar with fugitives and flight. It is easy enough to read without the distraction of gory detail to know that the instinct for survival allows no long debate. Living in the moment means leaving your regrets behind as motion and its momentum spiral in the direction of gravity.
keep travelling
m
The definitions or descriptions of love or whatever they call the endorphine induced phycosis, are like the snowflakes of winter, seemingly endless and varied. It is in the end whatever turns your crank, and in paradox, it is whatever makes you cranky. Why do we hurt the ones we love? Is it because, we can?
keep cranking
m
The saying goes, that those that do not learn from history/herstory are doomed to repeat it. For it is only in learning about our barbarous past that we in our vigilance feel an unwillingness to experience the evil of it. For its evil to flourish requires only that good men do nothing, say nothing. In revealing a few root words and their origin it is always in the hope that it might expose that silence to the light of day and mind's reason.
keep exposing
m
Death no matter how dark seems to have a silver lining or like the platinum in our catalytic converters has the seemingly unintended consequence of changing human behaviour. Any reduction in the weight of humanity upon the global bioshpere is, if not welcomed, given a positive spin to balance the suffering related that continued unabated until the common use of soap and water. Though not mentioned specifically it is the cleaners that not only survived the darkness but flourished in this tale that looks at the bright side.
keep optimistic
m
A short jog down memory lane while holding on to a horse's mane made all the more relateable when standing silently in awe of sunset's wonder painted on a canvas of the home our hearts all yearn for. However, like easing into a hot bath's comfort is relaxing there is no hook to pull you forward, no reason to get out, no reason to get into another skin. Great as background goes, easy reading.
keep working
m
You can verify that my autorewards is disabled by checking your "Gift Points" and perhaps pay the 2700 directly?
They say, and I am not of course exactly sure who "they" are beyond the popular expression that, "Misery loves company". While this sounds somewhat like a merry go round it doesn't on closer inspection seem very "merry". Like going down a razor's edge that offers no recourse but begs the question, why not get up and go in any other direction?
Just take provisions for the journey through the labyrinth of catacombs.
keep on
When standing at the obelisk before the passageway into the labyrinth in has long been known by those who have returned (contrary to the myth) that entrance can only be gained by playing certain musical notes in their proper sequence. It is the ease of practiced movement that makes the doors open.
keep delving
Driving the big rigs can be like living in Limbo where the journey is much like the coming and going of tide. Driving the big rigs in Coma by chance or circumstance is beyond the understanding of many. Foresight is the first part of vision to go when impaired.
keep enduring
The law of unintended consequence says we cannot predict the lengths that we are prepared to go to prevent the ridicule of the ridiculous. I have found that common sense and of course a sense of humour are things best carried with you in your pocket.
keep going
The search for serenity can be found in a "Invalid Item" if one has the energy or inclination but sometimes it is the familiar that draws us with our longing to be again if in a different form in a place created for the living so we might live again.
keep ascending
Captivating, eloquent, heartfelt, graceful, gripping and inevitably twisted.
What would you do if it happened to you? The answers to the questions are revealed in a curious clarity of purpose in realistic detail that is vivid without being graphic.
keep touching
Sometimes our imaginations while giving solace lead us away from our realities to places we would not have gone except for them and the chance of circumstance. There are places it can go that it can take us that in going you cannot be certain of returning. When you are enveloped in an emptiness that fills everything it touches with the true meaning of hell, you seek its shelter regardless of the consequences.
Brutal in its long exploration of the human spirit's longing.
keep touching
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