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Forever_found
05-20-2009, 04:40 PM
Errrm, this is a very short story. It's my first time at the Literature Network Forums, and I haven't checked out any other short stories here to see the general format that most of you write in, so ignore my foreignness. :S
I had written, well more accurately I typed, this during a car ride going from NYC to my home on my phone. It's raw and I revised it a little, hopefully some of you will like it and congratulate me and what not. I would expect friendly criticism ending in smiley faces, saying I could do better if I edit more, most likely about the long run-on sentences and the lack of proper paragraphing. So without further ado, here you go. :redface:


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I felt the rain patter lightly on my skin falling down from the darkness above, accompanied by the brief flashings and rumblings of distant thunder. I was being slowly drenched by the incoming waters. But didn’t matter because I had found him, I had finally found him. Standing at the end of the dock, the waves touched him briefly each time as they ended their pilgrim journey from beyond the landlocked, crashing onto the breaks of the shore.

He turned around to face me, with a sad little smile that seemed unsuited for his blissful face, and his eyes bright like violet stars. “You found me.” He intoned softly, the calypso swaying of his voice alluring. I said nothing and just stood there, waiting for-waiting for what? What was I waiting for? I did nothing and stood on my ground silently, saying nothing.

He continued to watch me a while longer, then turned his soft eyes back to the sea with his body following, facing that dark, rumbling entity. Staring into the depths seeing things I could never, ever lay my gaze on, he said “There is everything down there.” In great suddenness, his awesome, bright wings unfolded from their resting places. Unveiled now, they spread apart in majestic grace, the moonlight casting faint rainbows across their length.

It was not abnormal to see those wings sprouting from the shoulders of this humanoid figure, dwarfing everything in sight. Instead, it was strangely appropriate, though I felt small and decreased under the shadow of him. Saying nothing more, he flourished his wings and leapt from the wooden foundation from which he had perched, hitting the water and disappearing beneath. The water leaped and splashed about, glad to reclaim its angel child.

As I stood there an white feather blown by the wind floated, swerving this way and that, to rest gently atop the rolling waves.

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Staring through the break of the surface to look at her, I pondered. Who will she tell? What will she say? But it didn’t really matter; all she had to prove my existence was her faith.

Feeling sorry for her fate, and then resigning to it, I dove down deep toward home. After all, her fate would be the same as many else; catastrophic. We could touch briefly, we and they, but only briefly. Like candlelights sharing a flame; like waves upon distant shores. Ultimately, the onslaught to come would determine it all, as we remnants of our past came above in our 1s and our 3s, our 10s and 100s, and eventually by our remaining thousands. We would come, not because of a purpose of peace, but a purpose to destroy. It was a purpose that had pervaded throughout us, until it was all we had. We would come, because of a meaningless purpose. We would come, because we remember Atlántida.

I would come, because I remember Atlántida.

prendrelemick
05-20-2009, 05:37 PM
I hope you wasn't driving.
There's nothing much wrong with this. As you say, a few things to tidy up thats all.

It is a fine piece of writing, there is mood and atmosphere here, simply created and effortlessly maintained. The balance of what to show and what to tell and what to hint at is beautifully judged. It all flows along nicely, the adjectives are right (though you know that alabaster is a stone, you have a stone feather.) and those run on sentences keep the rhythm smooth.

OK thats quite enough praise for one night!

Forever_found
05-20-2009, 05:46 PM
Ahh, always had thought that alabaster meant the color white. :)

Thanks for the praise.

prendrelemick
05-21-2009, 03:42 AM
Alabaster is a white stone. It is cool, smooth and translucent as well as white, the word is often used to discribe those qualities. It was actually often used to carve effigies of angels, so perhaps it could've worked as a simile here.

I see you've made loads of changes, I'll read it later.

Astronought
05-21-2009, 04:50 AM
Ultimately, the onslaught to come would determine it all, as we remnants of our past came above in our 1s and our 3s, our 10s and 100s, and eventually by our remaining thousands.

The rest of the story was OK, but this part I really did not like. Perhaps it's just me but what does this part actually mean?

prendrelemick
05-21-2009, 04:31 PM
I liked the original version better. It was simpler and read better.

It's still good though.

Forever_found
05-21-2009, 04:58 PM
The rest of the story was OK, but this part I really did not like. Perhaps it's just me but what does this part actually mean?

The Atlanteans' (Lack of a better name. Though perhaps this is the name they should be called.) civilization and only city, Atlantis, was destroyed, by what I left thew reader to decide; I was leaning toward unintentional human causes such as pollution and such, but thats a rather raw idea. The Atlanteans bided their time in the ocean, living nomadic oceanic lifestyles like in tribes and such. The Atlanteans' remember the destruction of Atlantis and blame the humans.

So in short, revenge?

I do not really know what I wished to convey besides the emotion.

@Prendrelemick
I thought it was better after the editing, but thanks.