DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/17

Sunbroken drainage took the lateral glaze. Next to the wall a powder oven oversaw den needle waying other than prier dogs.
Without… without mill…
Josephine stepped up the stool to the lintel, and tacked up the signs of says. Sayser was no sawser, later without liber. She skipped down, pinching and shaking her small hammer in pastorally unobtrusive victory. There they were: the line and cap, the drawn shot, the sable antimony.
Truck off the treasured deep ensued, while the topple gotten cop tilled an earth without lees.
Before she could narrow her view, a truck machine arm obtrusively clenched to half the sight. Dragging the design put an end to that reversal.

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/14

The pin fell down from Glasborough Heights, and in the sand compassed a frame jagged with thorns.
Thin ripples knit outward, a magnifying glass close-up of a squarish vinyl. The brother passes vaguely, but on his line, and two sisters further out; in the distance, one who is of unknown connection, but the skid of their progress is clear to the hearing. Streams of measured movement unfulfilled complain in silted furrows, ready to contract again towards the centre – but so long as any go out, there is no closing.

The buzz of tangibility in the haze that receives the passers; lights rotate, airport of the streets, of the unseen under foot and shoe. A badge with a little glisten and much needle is given.
Following into the haze, wide in its obscurity, the lines are lost, or increase until all is laid and progresses on one line.

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/12

The hand leaves the door before the echo of the knock returns. Barbed wire and holly leaf shapes, she runs her fingers down crackling through them at the doorpost, a sheaf of serpents filling up a glove.
An answer over the wall, dangles in the night, and follows the knock around the corner. The seeker spreads her wrist, leaves her unassuming gift at the threshold, and backs against a pillar. The faces above find a cross of paths in that depth of time, the step in the terraced tempo meeting out the finished woven strands of wind-washed sand.
Bent by invisible glass, the approach remains the same as they meet – sent by the answer, and the knock lands neatly between them.
The bounty unfolds beneath the towering faces of nighttime knowledge, receiving sweet forevers to vaults in unearthly charm.

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WrittenOOM #GarfieldWiles 2023/12/20

Garfield Wiles was thirteen, and taking his little sister Eunice into the city to help her buy a Christmas gift for their mother.
The lights of the city made the eyes, the windows of the soul, into train windows, and the soul found it difficult to read in the passing changes of illumination. The sky was dark above the lights, and a thin mist was just heavy enough to fall like minute snowflakes. The crowd also was thin but heavy.

There was a light clatter ahead of them. Something long had dropped from beneath the dark mantle of a man walking some yards further on, and no one else was noticing. Garfield ran to take up the thing, and called out to its owner:

“Hey! Sir, your stick fell down!”

The man continued walking, perhaps thinking the shout was meant for another. Garfield shouted again, and began to run after the man. His feet made a gritty sound on the wet pavement, and very soon he slipped. To keep from hurting the stranger’s rod, he took his fall on one hand, scratching his palm badly. Though only on the ground for a moment, when he looked around the man in the mantle was not to be seen. Eunice was by his side, staring at the thing he held.

“What is that?” she asked.

To be continued.

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/11

Power lines, phone lines, black and quilted, draping cobwebs of unseen endless uses.

Under the shadeless net he walked, breathed on his hands. Like distant mountains the towering net moved little above him as he went, except to rock in their dizzy height over his eyes.

In a hollow corner between the ends of two walls he found the hole dug, and the trowel by it. He rubbed his hands, shook his head, and filled up the hole again. A tear escaped the soil as he pressed it down.

His boots made crunches as he went again, crushing the litter of coins unrecognisable in their tarnish and rust; but they made a nice gritty sound when walked upon with heavy feet.

High above the wayside where he walked, a tiny charred claw came, without a creature attached, and perched by its tiny self, and alone clutched a wire.

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/10

Zigzagging ant-laid mazes tiled the slanting wall, up to the jagged crest, as of a wooden crisscrossing wave. The knife edges hanging down laterally under the palate of the serrated crest form sand dollar clustering patterns, and fend off shrugging approaches of the floor.
Thin grass, leaving bare the muck and grit, last hairs of a balding head. There was a whistle in the air across the top edges of narrow walls and gravel.

The ants pried up the grungy grass and the silt: in the damp gash were uncovered the packed bones, hidden for the times that dice would wander the zigzagging walls.

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/08

In the depths before the face, the darkness black as paint: an archway as in a garden, lit of frozen lightning, bolts as thick as plaited kraken arms.
The tiles before this way are blown cornerwise by the strength, horrent scales of a strained and bristling fish, so the stars could peer between, those that ventured close enough below.
Those beasts that glided here and there about that lighted gap, grey as moth-eaten dust, skinless, featherless, hairless, scaleless, trailing stringy shrouds, and their glimpsed as heads tight as small ape skulls.

All at once, into the weighted silence: drills that shattered the tiles, tearing and porpoising forwards; sure or desperate they were a force of anger. For well or ill they failed, the deathly solid gleam prevailed, and shone unmoved through the filtering particles of the assailants’ defeat.

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM #EssenceMap 2023/12/05

Tywithe

Veneer~
Deep: 1.37%-3.08%
‘sifted surface listen listen’
‘dry bubble space, spaces another pressed a meagre spreading sphere cluster’
Grain: FE-grey-gry
‘gleaning hollows of powdery sprigs’ – ‘slow-motion thrashing in threshing’

Cords~
Deep: 56%
‘unknown dark long threading through the medium’
‘dying avocado’
Anagram: oil
Grain: FO-grow-grw
Tundra
‘combed medusa corpse ineffective’
~Chords
Deep: 4.3%-77.001%-2.00%
‘Silver Trombone’
Juxtaposition: /\/
Grain: FOO-groww-gww
‘cunning key fan’
~Lanes
Deep: 55.4%-56.9$
Grain: FD-delta-dlt
‘running’
‘if all the bereft’

Pallet~
Deep: 6.06%
‘dove-tailed duck feet 8-inch boots deep in dry’

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/03

Heshod blew on his hands to warm them. He stood before the grey-brown warped door. Above the earthen wall roared the sky, a thousand more wheels than he could count, every point and line shaking dust and striking dim sparks.
Beneath his feet was another door. Another wall stretched out behind his heels, a wall of hard, earth-coloured brick, sticky and stained. Above the top of this wall also another sky rattled and rolled.

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM #AdolphusSearchAndRescue 2023/11/30

(This story so far resides here: //ofourmaker.com/2023/10/17/adolphus-search-and-rescue )

(The conclusion.)

Enid’s mother was quite interesting as a human. Though a small gluckast, she grew in the transition much beyond what came only from straightening, so that she was all but startlingly tall. She also appeared athletic, and not in a lean way like Gareth. Gibbsen was curious whether she was as powerful as she looked. She had named herself “Ardyth”.

She was sitting, as was her habit, on a bench in the receiving bay named “Errol” (the same where her daughter became a bride), to watch when a transport vehicle was bringing in sick gluckasts. There was blood and claw marks on the sides of the vehicle, and shreds of flesh on its horns. Though it had been a near thing, all were uninjured, and so it was a glad time. The gluckasts had been greatly reduced, though Adolphus Search and Rescue was kept in more labour than ever – the infection had broken free, and it was now a constant race to find all the infected.

Gareth was also watching (he had not been on this run), rocking his baby girl in his arms. Gibbsen considered rocking silly; babies were extravagant things, but he liked them anyway. This one was named “Angharad”.

Enid came at a trot, having fetched something.

“I wanted to show you this, Mother. Dr. Kilver kept Father’s claw, he preserved it.”

She proffered the gruesome artifact, which her mother handled with interest.

“Are you sorry,” Enid asked, “that my lover killed Father?”

“Oh, no,” her mother replied, then cocked her head. “Though I do wonder what sort of person he would have made.”

Ardyth spoke without a trace of the gluckast accent – it was eerie when they had learned that this was because as a gluckast she would mimic human speech to lure people to their deaths.

“Speaking of sorts,” she went on, “I also wonder how your daughter has not a trace of your husband’s complexion.” She gestured with the claw to the baby’s rosy skin.

Enid sat down and leaned on her mother’s brawny arm.

“My husband was not grey the time he was birthed. It is argyria.” (she was careful to pronounce the word correctly.) “It was a… I did not understand yet. He used it to fight demons in another country.” She tried unsuccessfully to catch her mother’s eye. “Mother, do you believe you will take a husband again?”

“No, unless I can persuade that Mundbern fellow,” Ardyth said with a funny half-smile.

Little Angharad began to groan; Gareth touched his fingertip to her lips, and she responded by giving it a suck. Her desires thus made clear, Gareth delivered her to Enid’s bosom, and sitting down he put his arms around Enid’s shoulders to conceal the motherly feeding process under the broad sleeves of his dark robe.

They heard a banshee scream, and soon saw their friends in another great vehicle heading out of the bay into the dark. The noise of the departing rescuers dwindled, until the only sound was the baby’s suckling noises. After a while, Gibbsen found himself genuinely curious about what a human’s milk tasted like.

~

This concludes Gibbsen’s anecdote of the end of the gluckasts and certain doings of Adolphus Search and Rescue.

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