Feb 17, 2016 Friday Fictioneers
Genre: Fantasy/Science Fiction (Timely Tales 2)
Word Count: 100 words
TILT!
©February 17th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
Time was lonely, and a-weary of her job.
The stars spun in their course around the Universe, even as it expanded quietly.
Planets formed, died, and were re-born.
Nebulae cradled baby stars, and supernovae interred them. Interminable darkness seemed to want to attract everything into its vortex.
Far away on a tiny planet, life poked its head out. It was beautiful. Time held her breath, fascinated.
Suddenly, she felt a presence. Turning, she stopped. She had twinned into something unimaginable. Her alter-ego, her brother, Death, stood beside her.
“So sad, isn’t it?” he murmured.
Things got more tilted after that.
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Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, Fairy Blog-Mother and Magic Presiding Spirit of Friday Fictioneers for hosting FF, and to Sandra Crook, wonderful traveller-writer, for that great photo-prompt!
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Jul 9, 2014 Original Short Stories
Below is my short-story response to Rochelle-Wisoff Field‘s Friday Fictioneers prompt (photograph kindly provided by Kelly Sands). Thanks Rochelle and Kelly! If you are interested in reading more stories, click on this cute frog icon here:
Your curiosity will be well-rewarded with some of the most creative and diverse responses/stories you will read on the web.
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Genre: Mythological Fiction/ Science Fiction
Word Count: 100 words
Titanic Emergence
©July 9th, 2014
By Vijaya Sundaram
No one noticed the clouds that day, because people had been forewarned.
The alarm had sounded all over the globe — even the indigenous peoples in forests and hills and distant islands had been informed. Nobody ventured out.
When the clouds parted, a beam of light shot through and sucked up the entire planet.
Where the Earth was taken, no one knew. People’s eyes were shut tight, and they felt … translated.
Later, in a newly formed Universe, a new race emerged. Twelve people straightened up. Their heads brushed the edges of space.
“Let it begin again,” said Time.
And it did.
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