Goal: 200 words, Written: 266 words.

Jon lay sprawled across the bed, eyes closed, breath shallow. To anyone else it might have looked like he was asleep, but Todd knew better. Jon never slept passed eight, and it was just after eight-thirty.

He took a step into the room and grabbed the nerf gun from its hook. Jon was going down. He clicked the action and got the first rubber and foam bullet into the chamber. He sighted with practiced ease, eye following the top of the barrel to Jon’s forehead and then moving up ever so slightly to account for the toy guns lack of power. A quick squeeze and the dart flew towards Jon, and.. hit.

“Well shot,” Jon said from the corner of the room, causing Todd to grin. The illusion spell lifted, Todd could see that what he’d really shot had been a basketball and line of pillows.

“You’re getting better since we found that book.” He commented, walking over to the bed and picking up the dart, replacing it in the gun and putting it back on the hook by t...

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Nightlock wrote:As the time has flown by, many things happened in my life since the last time I visited this site.

Time fled past me like an intercity train going through a small station. We are painfully aware of it's passing, as it's displacement affects us, and it's noise silences our conversations. But it's gone by so fast that we cannot react, cannot impact and cannot influence it's passing. Events in our lives are like the passengers, you recognize their faces but before you can say anything to them, they've gone.

Continuing this (ultimately flawed) analogy, I've watched several intercities race on by me and am now keenly aware of my train about to enter the station and halt at the platform I've inhabited for the past 2 years. Not only have the intercities kept me from visiting Speculative Vision, they've kept me from writing completely. I look forward to boarding the next train, and finally get my life rolling again.

As before, a multitude...

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Join us in discussing Tom Siddell's Gunnerkrigg Court Web Comic in the "Other Reading" Forum.

After [scratches his head] around 15 or so years with the same avatar, the altered UNIX BSD daemon, I figured it was time for a change.



Actually, what happened was that a friend of mine hipped me to a new Web Comic by saying she'd found one with me in it. So checking out the comic, I was enthralled by the work and read the entire thing through. Of course the character she thought I was turned out to be the Trickster. Go fig, but what the hell, I can see some similarities. ;-p

What is this Web Comic? Sheesh, don't you people read my posts.

We try pretty hard not to, Q.

Ah, good point. Well, it's Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell and you should check it out if you're not already familiar with it.

Prost.

It seems that I never want to write anymore. I'm not sure if I'm lacking creativity, or just don't want to spend my time doing it. I think it might be getting time for some drastic measures on myself along the lines of 200 words a day. If that works well enough, I'll build it up to 250, then 300, and etc until I get to a good solid 500.

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