A.A. MacConnell's Blog, page 11
July 30, 2019
Champion of the Gods (pt16)
Meera started in the morning, long before Shu-fang did. Shu-fang could have, but the other two women had seemed to think that Meera’s morning hours were a bit more odd so Shu-fang let them keep that feeling. She didn’t want to stand out too much. Every little bit of energy that Shu-fang could muster went to acting like a regular person. As regular as any individual could ever be.
“I got a text last night. Apparently we have someone who found a bunch of old clothes somewhere or another and she...
July 27, 2019
Looking out/up/other
Is there life out there?
Past everything set gingerly on the shelves
Stars shine down night and day
Where the speed shoots down the old and pastes up the new
A planet named after war stays the loudest of all silent grace
The namesake of dark soaks up nothing of space
Is there anything worth looking for?
Changes occur past the blinds
Nothing is different from this far away
The same stories on an endless loop of boredom and excitement
The light of day consistent for only so long
The moon losing...
July 26, 2019
Champion of the Gods (pt15)
Shu-fang woke up feeling rested for one of the first times in a long while. The room was small, perhaps even cramped. It wasn’t to say that Shu-fang had lived in worse places, because that went without saying, but this place was nice and cozy. Even without too much in it, she enjoyed this immensely. It never got too hot or too cold and the room service was amazing. Carla came up every morning, except for the few times she was out of town or sick, and in which case Shu-fang and Meera didn’t wa...
July 24, 2019
A Simple Life (pt3)
Emil had watched people grow old and die around him for an eternity. Coleen only understood it as a concept. As numb as she felt now, she knew it would affect her when it happened. When Emil died. Then she would fall numb again. It was not a big deal.
“Something other than being a homemaker,” Emil clarified.
At one point that might have enraged her. Coleen could not feel beyond the numbness of peace and reconstruction.
“I could be a homemaker,” she mused, the thought no longer a sexist insult...
July 20, 2019
Where they Belong
What is so expecting?
Dripping life, newly come from death
Beautiful where it is, stay there
Nothing to do with metal minds, nothing so
Exact
Precise
Flawless
What is so flawless?
It is perfection, broken perfection
Minds crazed from the sight of superiority gone mad
Bodies pierced with metal, so helpful
Plastic
Calcium
Words
How did they become like this?
The last was his while none were theirs
Certainly those from before were not at fault
Someone to be blamed must be present
Her?
Them?
Him?...
July 17, 2019
A Simple Life (pt2)
“Coleen, you are not listening to me.”
“I wasn’t aware you needed me to,” Coleen replied wryly, rubbing at her hands where they had been grasped about the handle of the broom. Emil had yanked it from her fingers. It seemed that being immortal hadn’t done anything for her physically. Dying had hurt.
It meant it had hurt every time Emil had died. Yet he had said nothing.
It had hurt when she had died too, when the Faith had run her through, as Ami caressed her and told her the things Coleen had...
July 16, 2019
Champion of the Gods (pt14)
Running at War, Shu-fang let the other woman throw her down the embankment. There was no time to pause. Shu-fang got up and started to run.
“Coward!”
The shriek rang in her ears. She remembered once that would have made her pause, deny, but Shu-fang knew better. She had known better for some time.
It didn’t matter what War said. War would never understand. Shu-fang didn’t really need her to.
She only had to get away.
Shu-fang did.
July 13, 2019
Mage
Born in a turn of fate
One as dark as the inside who could find a way
A lone way
Are you alone? But not lost
Only to the gold is the path clear
Others only interfere
If only they knew, understood
How they hurt more than helped
How much more you knew and so you did
Death lays in your wake
All you can see
Ignore it
Above them all
Now all you must do is make them see it
And all will be well as the sand tumbles down
All will be well
For you
You?
July 12, 2019
Champion of the Gods (pt13)
War flipped her up, then without getting off her back swept Shu-fang’s feet from underneath her. There was no way she could stop that, but she could turn it into a back-flip. Shu-fang had long since realized how unreal her fights looked to other people.
What was her advantage? War wouldn’t understand. That was it. Shu-fang would be able to run because War didn’t expect her to retreat. Or if she did, she would expect it to be to regroup. Shu-fang had to run and lose her in the wilds.
She lost...
July 10, 2019
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