More Warm Ups

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(I started this one yesterday and it was about birds, but I think the birds are their own story now.)

The river is eating away at the city John Galt built on the bank.

He called it the Grand and hemmed it in with concrete. He spanned it with bridges and readied it for settlement. He lined the riverbank with stone: churches and factories, a courthouse and an armoury, all of it cold and grey to match the clouds. It rains, and the river has nowhere to go but up towards the windows. So the windows creep higher, and the concrete follows in their wake, chasing progress out from the water and up to the sky.

The river fights back.

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The red building is where Other!Faith and I meet to write.



This is a reverse shot of what I see out the window from the café. Also, when the sky is cloudy, the water is brown and rushing, and the stone is grey too, which is where the story comes from. I should have taken a picture of it yesterday, but didn't have a camera on me.

I'm throwing it open for pictures and prompts. No guarantees, but you might get a hundred words if you send me something. :)

Comments

[colej55.livejournal.com]

First and foremost, the description of the river and buildings is so picturesque and fantastic! You have a way with words. You're an author. I'm a moron who thinks they can write. I still try, but I'll never be anywhere near an author. I'm the Don Quixote of the literary wanna-bes. It doesn't make me sad because maybe that's not my calling (except that my life story is amazing and inspirational and I want to share it). Instead, it points to how much I love reading ANYTHING you choose to write. If you wrote the description of the toothpaste on the box it came in, I'd still want to read it.

Second, the photos are amazing! If you can't write in that setting, then it's hopeless and you should find another vocation. Our riverfront is weird because it is being "modernized". Such a shame! The charm is disappearing completely.

Bravo, my friend, bravo!!! I can't wait for NaNo just because it means that you'll force yourself to write and I might get to read it if I'm lucky!

*humbly bows to you* :)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Thank you SO MUCH, honey!

I AM SO EXCITED FOR NANO! ;)

And I really love that café! It's a 30 minute drive, but worth it for the view.

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

Uh, John Galt? Seriously?

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I know. Seriously. :)

[bookwormprinces.livejournal.com]

Alright, you seemed to have fun with Otto the octopus, so I give you... Serious Bird!