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29th september 2022

[ Over a year ago now I had an idea, the first actual idea I'd had in years, and I've been trying that central idea in a bunch of different constructions. This is the start of version five, which I've been working on for a week or so. I don't intend to serially publish the entire thing, mostly because I have no idea whether I'll get more than 10k words in before coming up with a better setup, but I'm feeling good about this at the moment so here it is. ] It was cold, colder than I'd been prepared for, but I stepped determinedly away from my front door. This was the closest I'd been to the walk I desperately needed in days, and if I went back inside for another layer I knew I wouldn't come out again. I huddled inside my insubstantial jacket as best as I could, already imagining the hot chocolate I'd decided I would have as a reward.  "It doesn't have to be far," I said aloud, watching the words steam into nothingness against the biti
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letters, part one

[Sometimes I like to write letters from one character to another when I'm trying to pin down a narrator's voice or flesh out the relationship/emotions between them. This is one of those, for a thing I just started working on.]   It's been a long time, hasn't it? You might wonder why I would write to you now. I've been gone forever, or maybe you have. I suspect you barely give me a thought, and if I'm honest I don't remember you either. Not really. I think about you more often than I should, but I don't remember who you were. In my head there's a vessel, shaped vaguely like you, and I use it as a place to put feelings I don't know what to do with. Sometimes I talk to you. More often than not I end up yelling at you. You hold a flame long-since extinguished, but its ghost still burns, somehow brighter than the original ever did.  I think you'd be surprised to find out how much I resented you. There were a hundred, a thousand better targets for
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obligatory intro post

I want my writing to start living somewhere other than my hard drive again, so I'm starting a stories blog. Some of them are real, some of them are not. Some are excerpts, some are a complete piece. Sometimes I might do meta writing about writing. I'm trying not to have too many rules; the point is to get myself writing and sharing again. It's been a while. 
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