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Post by wolf on Oct 22, 2021 0:23:02 GMT
Thanks for the peek see wolf . It's gonna be sumptin' 😋
I hope that's me in the lower gif... not the upper one. 🤣 �🤣😂...ME TOO, BUB! 😂😊😉 😝😉
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Post by diobolic on Oct 22, 2021 0:28:09 GMT
Thanks for the peek see wolf . It's gonna be sumptin' 😋
I hope that's me in the lower gif... not the upper one. 🤣 �🤣😂...ME TOO, BUB! 😂😊😉 😝😉 (rofl)
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Post by wolf on Nov 5, 2021 0:17:35 GMT
Creative Writing. Do you have something you need or want to relate? Something you have written down before, and want to share now? Or something spontaneous that you are compelled to get out and show off? À story, a memory, a dream, an observation, an "Anything"? An amusing or deep thought provoking musing? Tragedy to comedy, and all points in between. Bring it. And share it here with your tet-mates. It's all welcomed. Get creative and share your talents and 'interesting' with others. Please.
(Friendly Reminder: Please abide by this Message Board's few and reasonable rules.)
I am going back to this very first post at the beginning of this thread and quoting it because I had a good friend ask me a question not too long ago. This is what he asked,
"...but why is it always the young who have to die?"
My answer was this,
"The old adage : "Only the good die young" is only SOMETIMES true. Some are too good for this earth and taken young. Some of the young are not good and NEED to be taken out. Good old people are often left here for as long as possible because they are so loved and NEEDED by the rest of us. ....then there are the OTHER old people who you know aren't good at all. THOSE ones you have to look at carefully and ask, 'Why are you still here?'🤨"
Sigh...just some of the things I have figured out over all my years on Good God's earth. 🙂
(.....and onto more Daryl moments and 'Pop.178' from here when I get to make time to do that.🙂😉)
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Post by wolf on Aug 4, 2022 23:47:12 GMT
"Population 178" (Part I)
About 80 miles away from 'a big Somewhere', out in the middle of one of many 'Nowheres'......there's a spot of ground. A town. An off and mildly unsettlingly odd small town. Where subtle strange things can often occur. And some good things too. There are SOME good friendly people here. Then there’s the others…..
The summer has come. The heat is massive but dry. No humidity right now to make the days miserable and nigh onto unbearable. Day after day for over a month the skies have been bright blue and cloudless. We’re rapidly approaching 104 + degree days. And that’s before the heat index gets more attention in the forecasts than it deserves. Hot is just hot, you get over it.
I don’t much like this place, never did. The only good things about it are the rabbit hunting (deer shy away from here unfortunately), getting to occasionally see some bobcat, or coyotyl, in the early predawn hours when we would be heading for the City to work. That's always a kick. Those things and more. Hearing, listening to, all the coyotes at night.They call to eachother in differnt ways. I like that very much, and watching all the hawks soar up in the bright blue skies too. So many more out here, compared to where I usually live. And the stars at night too. All those beautiful stars. I really like laying out in the cool grass some nights, long after the sun has set, and looking up at them all. Not even really thinking about anything, just looking and admiring. And I do love spending time with the calves and the neighbor’s horses.... and being harassed by the Uncle's goats, and harassing them right back. That's always a bit fun. The big Billy is an a**h*le, and he LIKES being that way. "Horns! Meet log!"...rattled his brains a couple of times, but didn't really hurt him. Just got him to understand that I wasn't going to put up with his sh!t. Stinky Nubian bastard. One of his favorite things to do is blindside people, REGULARLY. And the fresh, fresh eggs and milk! That's always one of the best things too.
On the way back to what is home for now, summer afternoons when we get off work earlier….always seems to be when odd little things happened. Usually with some animals. You don’t see many people out and around this place this time of day. Everything looks an eerie; bothersome dead still in the bright sun. It looks and FEELS 'off' in a vague sort of way. Few small houses on this road and they're spaced far apart. Windows in them all look dark, no sign of life. It would all look abandoned, if it weren't for the mowed front lawns, and the one or two cars or trucks parked. I caught on real quick that these little episodes seem to always be going on, on one particular stretch of the farm road we exit on to....and within the same hours also. But all of that is for a little later in this story, right now me and Gran are still on our way to getting there.
Driving down the highway on the wayback to this current home. I’ve got only my thinking and the Eagles playing in my head, to keep me company. Gran’s car only has an AM radio, and we rarely turn it on. I’m counting the mile markers, amusing myself on the long flat stretches of road, by looking from one mile marker to the next. In the far off distance shimmering waves of heat are coming up off the lanes ahead, emanating from watery mirages. I will remember those shimmery waves of heat again some months later, when I see the movie 'Predator' for the first time. That will be after we move back to 'town'. That 'big Somewhere'. Not really a town, that's just what we call it. And Randy Meisner is singing to me,”…so put me on highyway! And show me the signs!….”
On either side of the highway there are open fields. Most fenced with Bois d’Arc wood and barbed wire. Occassionally you see the heavy metal pipe, painted white, horse fence. This is cow and horse country. Some fields are speckled with various breeds of bovines, others with equines of every kind. Many, if not most, are dotted with huge rolls of baled hay, wrapped tight with the same heavy baling wire I like use to make hangers for my potted plants on the porch. I get it from the local Feed and Seed. A few other fields filled with corn stalk sporadically appear. And of course there are the truck stops, but we left those behind quite a few miles back.
We’re coming up on our exit. Opposite it is a place I always look at as it long as I can before we make the right turn off the highway. Horse fence abounds on this spanse of land, this guy has got a really nice house set off towards the back of his property. Makes South Fork look like crap. I’m looking for the horses. He raises Arabians here…..
(Part II con't in next post coming asap.)
(Part II)
No Arabian horses out today, so I turn my eyes back to the exit we’re about to take. The Exit turns into a Farm Rd. and less than 1 tenth of a mile down it, our next right turn is the ‘Rural Route’ we will take, to get back to what is home for now. This damn place has never felt like ‘home’. (I was very glad when we eventually got out this sorry excuse of a small, way ‘off feeling’ Dodge.)
I’m now going to be paying attention to what may happen on this stretch of road. Most days are uneventful, but sometimes there’s been ….just ‘wrong things’…. that happen. Especially on this half a tenth mile that is quickly coming up, where the first four houses are spread out.
On the right are wide open fields, really nothing much to see but the barbed wire fences, set somewhere near to being 20 yards from the FM RD, and the high grasses behind them. On the left there are the houses. The ones that look an eerily, bothersome kind of ‘empty and dead’.
This is the first weird thing I ever remember occurring on this half tenth of a mile. A dog. A very strange, very ugly and extraordinary dog. He was awfully different, not only in appearance, but in the ways he moved and what he did.
This animal was nothing like I had ever seen of his species before. He shambled. But not in a decrepit or ‘feeble’ fashion, he didn’t look old at all. In fact he was a well built. A lanky hound type, thin. Not skinny, he looked healthy. (And I call this dog a ‘he’ because that is what I felt from him. We were not close enough to see for certain with our eyes. Though we saw everything else all very clearly.) He shambled in a sort of serene jerky gait. Not particularly fast, but a steady quirky walk, like he had somewhere to be, and he wasn’t going to take too much time to get there.
He had a longish coat that looked very badly matted and had a grotesquely oily, really UGLY (disturbingly ugly) mottled black and brown color. And his dog’s head swung back and forth normally, like dogs do when they’re on their way somewhere, until he saw us approaching in the car. Then, as he shambled steadily and determinedly, he looked at the car and did not take his eyes off it until he was...I guess...'ready to'.
(….normally…I would have been very concerned about a creature like this and would have wondered if it needed feeding or watering…or anything. But not this time. Not with this ‘thing’. Sorry to say that, but it is the truth. You can imagine the color I’ve tried to describe. No. Lovecraft has not influenced my MEMORY.)
Gran slowed the car when we saw him come from the fields, and under the barbed wire fence, to the right of us. Of course he went straight out to the road. Like I said, when he saw us he never looked away. Gran was giving him time to get across the road safely….when he reached the VERY mid point of the road…right on that damn white line…he never looked away from us and his heart must not have even skipped a beat….as he suddenly took a squat stance, in mid stride, and shat right there in the middle of the road. It was almost like he never stopped at all. He dumped. (only then he did take his eyes from us in the car) And then immediately he went back into that shambling, steady, calm and matter of fact gait of his.
Gran never did notice things about animals as much, or in the ways, that I did…and do. She just tssskked and hurrrmphed! Saying,
“You uncouth basturd! Go!”
I just said, “He’s gone, Gran.”
She drove on past the substantial, uncouth pile. I didn’t bother commenting about the incident. But was thinking, 'Dogs just don’t do that. Nope. And not in THAT f***ed way.'
Not even the goofy, sometimes crazy, inbred misfortunates that you some time see out here in this careless and ‘could careless’ place. THAT dog was no damn mental or physical ‘feeb’....it knew what it was doing.
(Part III coming asap.)
Note : I am very sorry it is taking me so long to do this one short thing. The only explanation I can give, is that this IS a recollection. These are actual memories I have of an actual place and time, that are still very VIVID in my mind. And I want to write this as a story type thing, but I want it to be accurate, to be true, to what I know…. To what I saw, experienced and remember to this day.
And I know I'm mixing up my past and present tenses, and making numerous other f*ck ups. Lol, I always do! Sorry about that too. I'm trying to proofread the best I can, as I go. ...I still have a couple of miles to go, before I sleep tonight. 😊😉
And...this gif is of a clip of the movie "Cast Away". Much of this area I'm talking about here, can look like this scene at some times of the year.🙂....
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Post by diobolic on Aug 5, 2022 12:54:22 GMT
Really enjoyed the latest installment wolf . Keep them coming. And don't worry about memories. Everyone knows we all tend to fill in the blanks of our memories with slices of what we think they should be to fit the narrative.
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Post by wolf on Aug 5, 2022 13:06:25 GMT
Really enjoyed the latest installment wolf . Keep them coming. And don't worry about memories. Everyone knows we all tend to fill in the blanks of our memories with slices of what we think they should be to fit the narrative. Thanks Dio. 🙂
...that's the thing....I have no blanks....memory is NOT failing me.
I just have a challenge finding the BEST WORDS to describe and explain some things that are often very difficult to understand, or imagine, if you didn't see it for yourself.
Believe me, with this one 'story'? ...fiction is much quicker and easier to write.
(I need to go back and clean all of it up and fix things when I eventually get it done. 🙂)
Hope you're having a good morning, Dio! 😊
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Post by wolf on Aug 5, 2022 14:30:59 GMT
Re: "Angel and the Demon"
.... But that ending... That was painful!!! I know some people like cliffhangers but I'm the type that likes to be satisfied in a read and not be left guessing..... Hey diobolic Dio, check out the spoiler. Something that happened the other day😊 .....
facepalm ...my mama has gone 'all DIO' on me! 😄 I was talking to her the other day and we were catching up on all our news. I told her we've started the 'sign up'. (Now remember, she doesn't know how all this stuff works. 😉) And she says, "Oh good! How are you going to bring 'Dartania' back?" Lol, I explained to her that wasn't the way it works, that we'll doing a brand new story. She said that was fine and great, but she wasn't having that ending to last year's story! 😂 I have to write something to bring Dartania back for poor Mack, and Tat.😄 She said that I had left 'hope' in that epilogue. I said, "...okay mom." 😊 (I have never seen my mother so enthused about fiction!) .....and I was thinkin', "Oh damn. Dio has become my mama's spirit animal and been talking to her in her dreams or sumthin'!" 😆 facepalm 😂 (rofl) a010
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Post by wolf on Aug 9, 2022 19:53:03 GMT
Re: "Angel and the Demon"
.... But that ending... That was painful!!! I know some people like cliffhangers but I'm the type that likes to be satisfied in a read and not be left guessing..... Hey diobolic Dio, check out the spoiler. Something that happened the other day😊 .....
...my mama has gone 'all DIO' on me! 😄 I was talking to her the other day and we were catching up on all our news. I told her we've started the 'sign up'. (Now remember, she doesn't know how all this stuff works. 😉) And she says, "Oh good! How are you going to bring 'Dartania' back?" Lol, I explained to her that wasn't the way it works, that we'll doing a brand new story. She said that was fine and great, but she wasn't having that ending to last year's story! 😂 I have to write something to bring Dartania back for poor Mack, and Tat.😄 She said that I had left 'hope' in that epilogue. I said, "...okay mom." 😊 (I have never seen my mother so enthused about fiction!) .....and I was thinkin', "Oh damn. Dio has become my mama's spirit animal and been talking to her in her dreams or sumthin'!" 😆 😂 This is something for the "Enquiring minds that just HAVE TO KNOW" 🙄😉....
For Mama and PITA diobolic Dio 😒 😄😉..... "The Return" The large He Wolf lay beside the grave, under the cool shade of the surrounding trees. The wilder greenbelt behind the city park at the edge of Darktown, offered solitude, and he had taken advantage of it. Hours he spent dozing, dreaming and grieving. Finally when the sun began the descent to the distant horizon, he felt rested enough to rise. There was hunting to be done. And he left. Coyote had been there with him during all those hours, watching. Unseen and unscented, laying low in a nearby thick clutch of brush, not too far from the front of the grave. His eyes followed the wolf as he ambled away from the greenbelt, and back into the edge of Darktown. The Coyote then looked back to mound of grave. He would remain here...waiting. For 3 days. He would go eat and drink when he needed to, but most of his time would be spent guarding here....and waiting for what was to come next..... The third day. The sun was on the rise. The street lights turned off, Tat was up and on the move, and the store owner came to open up shop. Coyote opened his eyes at the feel of the Creator's golden orb's warmth and the sound of His littler thing's birdsong and chittering. He looked to the small burial ground first, yawning and thinking, "I'm hungry....she'll be hungry too." He got up and went on a quick breakfast hunt. The shallow mound of dirt began to move minutely. Something from beneath was beginning to mole up to the surface. A few hours had passed, and Coyotl was back. Laying at the grave side, he noisily relished in having a good chew and gnaw of rabbit meat and bone. Beside him was another rabbit and 2 large old Gatorade bottles, with no labels, filled with water. He devoured the meat contently and sucked succulent marrow from the broken bones. His eyes never leaving the spot of ground where fingers were clawing through to an urgent emergence. The fingers and whole hand came up. He kept watching. The wrist and then the arm, as the other hand came breaking through and clawing at the loose dirt. Dartania's head came gasping up when both arms, splayed out on the grave top, braced and shoved down to push up hard with immense strength, hoisting her head and shoulders through and out. Her legs were frantically at work as well. Still Coyote watched eating his breakfast. She managed to get a foothold, down there somewhere, while choking and coughing out dry earth, and flew upward from the grave to mid thigh. For a moment she looked like a beautiful, filthy sea creature breaching up through the waves of soil she flung everywhere. Coyote chuckled at the sight, narrowing his eye lids and lowering his throat to cover the last remains of his morning meal... (DIO, the story is already written in my head, just need to get it into type. I'm sure I will finish this short today, so don't b!tch or whine, bub.🤨 😉)
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Post by diobolic on Aug 9, 2022 20:16:56 GMT
Hey diobolic Dio, check out the spoiler. Something that happened the other day😊 .....
...my mama has gone 'all DIO' on me! 😄 I was talking to her the other day and we were catching up on all our news. I told her we've started the 'sign up'. (Now remember, she doesn't know how all this stuff works. 😉) And she says, "Oh good! How are you going to bring 'Dartania' back?" Lol, I explained to her that wasn't the way it works, that we'll doing a brand new story. She said that was fine and great, but she wasn't having that ending to last year's story! 😂 I have to write something to bring Dartania back for poor Mack, and Tat.😄 She said that I had left 'hope' in that epilogue. I said, "...okay mom." 😊 (I have never seen my mother so enthused about fiction!) .....and I was thinkin', "Oh damn. Dio has become my mama's spirit animal and been talking to her in her dreams or sumthin'!" 😆 😂 This is something for the "Enquiring minds that just HAVE TO KNOW" 🙄😉....
For Mama and PITA diobolic Dio 😒 😄😉..... "The Return" The large He Wolf lay beside the grave, under the cool shade of the surrounding trees. The wilder greenbelt behind the city park at the edge of Darktown, offered solitude, and he had taken advantage of it. Hours he spent dozing, dreaming and grieving. Finally when the sun began the descent to the distant horizon, he felt rested enough to rise. There was hunting to be done. And he left. Coyote had been there with him during all those hours, watching. Unseen and unscented, laying low in a nearby thick clutch of brush, not too far from the front of the grave. His eyes followed the wolf as he ambled away from the greenbelt, and back into the edge of Darktown. The Coyote then looked back to mound of grave. He would remain here...waiting. For 3 days. He would go eat and drink when he needed to, but most of his time would be spent guarding here....and waiting for what was to come next..... The third day. The sun was on the rise. The street lights turned off, Tat was up and on the move, and the store owner came to open up shop. Coyote opened his eyes at the feel of the Creator's golden orb's warmth and the sound of His littler thing's birdsong and chittering. He looked to the small burial ground first, yawning and thinking, "I'm hungry....she'll be hungry too." He got up and went on a quick breakfast hunt. The shallow mound of dirt began to move minutely. Something from beneath was beginning to mole up to the surface. A few hours had passed, and Coyotl was back. Laying at the grave side, he noisily relished in having a good chew and gnaw of rabbit meat and bone. Beside him was another rabbit and 2 large old Gatorade bottles, with no labels, filled with water. He devoured the meat contently and sucked succulent marrow from the broken bones. His eyes never leaving the spot of ground where fingers were clawing through to an urgent emergence. The fingers and whole hand came up. He kept watching. The wrist and then the arm, as the other hand came breaking through and clawing at the loose dirt. Dartania's head came gasping up when both arms, splayed out on the grave top, braced and shoved down to push up hard with immense strength, hoisting her head and shoulders through and out. Her legs were frantically at work as well. Still Coyote watched eating his breakfast. She managed to get a foothold, down there somewhere, while choking and coughing out dry earth, and flew upward from the grave to mid thigh. For a moment she looked like a beautiful, filthy sea creature breaching up through the waves of soil she flung everywhere. Coyote chuckled at the sight, narrowing his eye lids and lowering his throat to cover the last remains of his morning meal... (DIO, the story is already written in my head, just need to get it into type. I'm sure I will finish this short today, so don't b!tch or whine, bub.🤨 😉)
Visions of...
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Post by wolf on Aug 9, 2022 20:21:07 GMT
This is something for the "Enquiring minds that just HAVE TO KNOW" 🙄😉....
For Mama and PITA diobolic Dio 😒 😄😉..... "The Return" The large He Wolf lay beside the grave, under the cool shade of the surrounding trees. The wilder greenbelt behind the city park at the edge of Darktown, offered solitude, and he had taken advantage of it. Hours he spent dozing, dreaming and grieving. Finally when the sun began the descent to the distant horizon, he felt rested enough to rise. There was hunting to be done. And he left. Coyote had been there with him during all those hours, watching. Unseen and unscented, laying low in a nearby thick clutch of brush, not too far from the front of the grave. His eyes followed the wolf as he ambled away from the greenbelt, and back into the edge of Darktown. The Coyote then looked back to mound of grave. He would remain here...waiting. For 3 days. He would go eat and drink when he needed to, but most of his time would be spent guarding here....and waiting for what was to come next..... The third day. The sun was on the rise. The street lights turned off, Tat was up and on the move, and the store owner came to open up shop. Coyote opened his eyes at the feel of the Creator's golden orb's warmth and the sound of His littler thing's birdsong and chittering. He looked to the small burial ground first, yawning and thinking, "I'm hungry....she'll be hungry too." He got up and went on a quick breakfast hunt. The shallow mound of dirt began to move minutely. Something from beneath was beginning to mole up to the surface. A few hours had passed, and Coyotl was back. Laying at the grave side, he noisily relished in having a good chew and gnaw of rabbit meat and bone. Beside him was another rabbit and 2 large old Gatorade bottles, with no labels, filled with water. He devoured the meat contently and sucked succulent marrow from the broken bones. His eyes never leaving the spot of ground where fingers were clawing through to an urgent emergence. The fingers and whole hand came up. He kept watching. The wrist and then the arm, as the other hand came breaking through and clawing at the loose dirt. Dartania's head came gasping up when both arms, splayed out on the grave top, braced and shoved down to push up hard with immense strength, hoisting her head and shoulders through and out. Her legs were frantically at work as well. Still Coyote watched eating his breakfast. She managed to get a foothold, down there somewhere, while choking and coughing out dry earth, and flew upward from the grave to mid thigh. For a moment she looked like a beautiful, filthy sea creature breaching up through the waves of soil she flung everywhere. Coyote chuckled at the sight, narrowing his eye lids and lowering his throat to cover the last remains of his morning meal... (DIO, the story is already written in my head, just need to get it into type. I'm sure I will finish this short today, so don't b!tch or whine, bub.🤨 😉)
Visions of... (You'll see, lol. 😄 MPT'ing right now, and had to go roll up the truck and car windows real fast. IT'S RAINING! )
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Post by scoup on Aug 10, 2022 7:33:13 GMT
Enjoyed
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Post by osnafrank on Aug 10, 2022 15:36:58 GMT
Hey diobolic Dio, check out the spoiler. Something that happened the other day😊 .....
...my mama has gone 'all DIO' on me! 😄 I was talking to her the other day and we were catching up on all our news. I told her we've started the 'sign up'. (Now remember, she doesn't know how all this stuff works. 😉) And she says, "Oh good! How are you going to bring 'Dartania' back?" Lol, I explained to her that wasn't the way it works, that we'll doing a brand new story. She said that was fine and great, but she wasn't having that ending to last year's story! 😂 I have to write something to bring Dartania back for poor Mack, and Tat.😄 She said that I had left 'hope' in that epilogue. I said, "...okay mom." 😊 (I have never seen my mother so enthused about fiction!) .....and I was thinkin', "Oh damn. Dio has become my mama's spirit animal and been talking to her in her dreams or sumthin'!" 😆 😂 This is something for the "Enquiring minds that just HAVE TO KNOW" 🙄😉....
For Mama and PITA diobolic Dio 😒 😄😉..... "The Return" The large He Wolf lay beside the grave, under the cool shade of the surrounding trees. The wilder greenbelt behind the city park at the edge of Darktown, offered solitude, and he had taken advantage of it. Hours he spent dozing, dreaming and grieving. Finally when the sun began the descent to the distant horizon, he felt rested enough to rise. There was hunting to be done. And he left. Coyote had been there with him during all those hours, watching. Unseen and unscented, laying low in a nearby thick clutch of brush, not too far from the front of the grave. His eyes followed the wolf as he ambled away from the greenbelt, and back into the edge of Darktown. The Coyote then looked back to mound of grave. He would remain here...waiting. For 3 days. He would go eat and drink when he needed to, but most of his time would be spent guarding here....and waiting for what was to come next..... The third day. The sun was on the rise. The street lights turned off, Tat was up and on the move, and the store owner came to open up shop. Coyote opened his eyes at the feel of the Creator's golden orb's warmth and the sound of His littler thing's birdsong and chittering. He looked to the small burial ground first, yawning and thinking, "I'm hungry....she'll be hungry too." He got up and went on a quick breakfast hunt. The shallow mound of dirt began to move minutely. Something from beneath was beginning to mole up to the surface. A few hours had passed, and Coyotl was back. Laying at the grave side, he noisily relished in having a good chew and gnaw of rabbit meat and bone. Beside him was another rabbit and 2 large old Gatorade bottles, with no labels, filled with water. He devoured the meat contently and sucked succulent marrow from the broken bones. His eyes never leaving the spot of ground where fingers were clawing through to an urgent emergence. The fingers and whole hand came up. He kept watching. The wrist and then the arm, as the other hand came breaking through and clawing at the loose dirt. Dartania's head came gasping up when both arms, splayed out on the grave top, braced and shoved down to push up hard with immense strength, hoisting her head and shoulders through and out. Her legs were frantically at work as well. Still Coyote watched eating his breakfast. She managed to get a foothold, down there somewhere, while choking and coughing out dry earth, and flew upward from the grave to mid thigh. For a moment she looked like a beautiful, filthy sea creature breaching up through the waves of soil she flung everywhere. Coyote chuckled at the sight, narrowing his eye lids and lowering his throat to cover the last remains of his morning meal... (DIO, the story is already written in my head, just need to get it into type. I'm sure I will finish this short today, so don't b!tch or whine, bub.🤨 😉)
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Post by wolf on Aug 10, 2022 16:54:14 GMT
Thanks guys. 😊 I'll finish it as soon as I can, been busy this morning.
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Post by wolf on Aug 11, 2022 22:48:33 GMT
Hey diobolic Dio, check out the spoiler. Something that happened the other day😊 .....
...my mama has gone 'all DIO' on me! 😄 I was talking to her the other day and we were catching up on all our news. I told her we've started the 'sign up'. (Now remember, she doesn't know how all this stuff works. 😉) And she says, "Oh good! How are you going to bring 'Dartania' back?" Lol, I explained to her that wasn't the way it works, that we'll doing a brand new story. She said that was fine and great, but she wasn't having that ending to last year's story! 😂 I have to write something to bring Dartania back for poor Mack, and Tat.😄 She said that I had left 'hope' in that epilogue. I said, "...okay mom." 😊 (I have never seen my mother so enthused about fiction!) .....and I was thinkin', "Oh damn. Dio has become my mama's spirit animal and been talking to her in her dreams or sumthin'!" 😆 😂 This is something for the "Enquiring minds that just HAVE TO KNOW" 🙄😉....
For Mama and PITA diobolic Dio 😒 😄😉..... "The Return" The large He Wolf lay beside the grave, under the cool shade of the surrounding trees. The wilder greenbelt behind the city park at the edge of Darktown, offered solitude, and he had taken advantage of it. Hours he spent dozing, dreaming and grieving. Finally when the sun began the descent to the distant horizon, he felt rested enough to rise. There was hunting to be done. And he left. Coyote had been there with him during all those hours, watching. Unseen and unscented, laying low in a nearby thick clutch of brush, not too far from the front of the grave. His eyes followed the wolf as he ambled away from the greenbelt, and back into the edge of Darktown. The Coyote then looked back to mound of grave. He would remain here...waiting. For 3 days. He would go eat and drink when he needed to, but most of his time would be spent guarding here....and waiting for what was to come next..... The third day. The sun was on the rise. The street lights turned off, Tat was up and on the move, and the store owner came to open up shop. Coyote opened his eyes at the feel of the Creator's golden orb's warmth and the sound of His littler thing's birdsong and chittering. He looked to the small burial ground first, yawning and thinking, "I'm hungry....she'll be hungry too." He got up and went on a quick breakfast hunt. The shallow mound of dirt began to move minutely. Something from beneath was beginning to mole up to the surface. A few hours had passed, and Coyotl was back. Laying at the grave side, he noisily relished in having a good chew and gnaw of rabbit meat and bone. Beside him was another rabbit and 2 large old Gatorade bottles, with no labels, filled with water. He devoured the meat contently and sucked succulent marrow from the broken bones. His eyes never leaving the spot of ground where fingers were clawing through to an urgent emergence. The fingers and whole hand came up. He kept watching. The wrist and then the arm, as the other hand came breaking through and clawing at the loose dirt. Dartania's head came gasping up when both arms, splayed out on the grave top, braced and shoved down to push up hard with immense strength, hoisting her head and shoulders through and out. Her legs were frantically at work as well. Still Coyote watched eating his breakfast. She managed to get a foothold, down there somewhere, while choking and coughing out dry earth, and flew upward from the grave to mid thigh. For a moment she looked like a beautiful, filthy sea creature breaching up through the waves of soil she flung everywhere. Coyote chuckled at the sight, narrowing his eye lids and lowering his throat to cover the last remains of his morning meal... (DIO, the story is already written in my head, just need to get it into type. I'm sure I will finish this short today, so don't b!tch or whine, bub.🤨 😉)
And onward. Doing what I can, when I can diobolic Dio , scoup and Commander osnafrank . The moon and ka demand, and the wolf abides...as best as possible. 🙂....
Her head spinning with confusion and need of air, Dartania stood and breathed in deep raggedly. Bending at the waist she leaned forward and planted her palms on the mound edge in front of the coyote, staring at him bewilderedly. Struggling underground, she caught another good foothold and raised up enough to free her knees. Then she was able to sit back and rest a moment, catching her breath and try to get her bearings. 3 days in the ground could do strange things to a person's mind and body...let alone being shot through the head.
Coyote smiled and wagged his tail, "Mornin' Wolf Woman."
Dartania was still not ready to speak, though she felt like she could. The coyote appeared to be safe enough and friendly, so she finally took her gaze away from him. She shook her head furiously, like a dog shaking off water from his newly finished bath, tossing more dirt everywhere and clearing her ears. She snorted out, ridding her nose of the last of it. When she opened her eyes again she looked around. She recognized the Greenbelt behind the park. She'd hunted here before. It was a good place she liked, and as the coyote in front of her, it felt safe enough.
Coyote cocked his ears, and craned his neck to look at both sides of the wolf woman's head. Both entry and exit wounds were closed and healed, he could see through the blood matted hair around them.
"Feeling better? Hungry? ...got you food and water"
he asked and told her cheerfully.
Dartania looked back down to the sound of his easy voice. Everything was starting to register and become clearer to her. But he was a puzzling creature she'd not seen the likes of before.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"I am Coyote." he replied patiently.
"I know you're a coyote. But who are you?"
Dartainia persisted, as she directed her eyes to the skinned rabbit and the old Gatorade bottles filled with water.
Quickly her mind kicked into gear and she thought,
'Skinned rabbit. Human hands did that'.
and on seeing the bottles of water...
'Tatty!'
.....with her last vision of Tatty's smiling face flashing before her mind's eyes, she exclaimed,
"You got that water from Tatty! Does he have enough for himself for today!?"
Coyote smiled in a small way, and remained patiently silent, as it was all coming back to her, thinking
'She's back.'
(to be con't)
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Post by diobolic on Aug 12, 2022 15:06:19 GMT
Liking it! Seeeeee... I said the guy should have used silver. But noooooooobody ever listens to me.
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Post by wolf on Aug 12, 2022 15:10:01 GMT
Liking it! Seeeeee... I said the guy should have used silver. But noooooooobody ever listens to me. a0808
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Post by osnafrank on Aug 12, 2022 16:32:52 GMT
It's great, wolfie,
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Post by wolf on Aug 12, 2022 16:55:03 GMT
It's great, wolfie, c017
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Post by wolf on Aug 15, 2022 23:31:57 GMT
Liking it! Seeeeee... I said the guy should have used silver. But noooooooobody ever listens to me. It's great, wolfie, Gracious Gentlemen.
I got the recycling and laundry done today. Had no arguments with the cats. And ACTUALLY FINISHED a SHORT Short Story. 😱
😂😉...
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(From last post on "The Return")....
Her head spinning with confusion and need of air, Dartania stood and breathed in deep raggedly. Bending at the waist she leaned forward and planted her palms on the mound edge in front of the coyote, staring at him bewilderedly. Struggling underground, she caught another good foothold and raised up enough to free her knees. Then she was able to sit back and rest a moment, catching her breath and try to get her bearings. 3 days in the ground could do strange things to a person's mind and body...let alone being shot through the head.
Coyote smiled and wagged his tail,
"Mornin' Wolf Woman."
Dartania was still not ready to speak, though she felt like she could. The coyote appeared to be safe enough and friendly, so she finally took her gaze away from him. She shook her head furiously, like a dog shaking off water from his newly finished bath, tossing more dirt everywhere and clearing her ears. She snorted out, ridding her nose of the last of it. When she opened her eyes again she looked around. She recognized the Greenbelt behind the park. She'd hunted here before. It was a good place she liked, and as the coyote in front of her, it felt safe enough.
Coyote cocked his ears, and craned his neck to look at both sides of the wolf woman's head. Both entry and exit wounds were closed and healed, he could see through the blood matted hair around them.
"Feeling better? Hungry? ...got you food and water"
he asked and told her cheerfully.
Dartania looked back down to the sound of his easy voice. Everything was starting to register and become clearer to her. But he was a puzzling creature to her.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"I am Coyote." he replied patiently.
"I know you're a coyote. But who are you?"
Dartania persisted, as her eyes darted to* the skinned rabbit and the old Gatorade bottles filled with water. Quickly her mind kicked into gear and she thought,
'Skinned rabbit. Human hands did that'. and seeing the bottles of water... 'Tatty!' with her last vision of Tatty's smiling face flashing before her mind's eyes, she exclaimed,
"You got that water from Tatty! Does he have enough for himself for today!?"
Coyote smiled in a small way, and remained patiently silent, as it was all coming back to her, he was thinking,
'She's back!'
(* caught myself here and made the wording just a little better. Still need to edit EVRYTHING. 🙄)
(From today)....
Dartania knew Tat and his habits. He carried all he owned with him daily, so he traveled light, and normally had only two bottles of water with him at any time. Sometimes Tatty neglected himself in these habits of his. And fresh Gatorade bottles were often hard for him to come by.
"You got PLENTY questions, woman. Listen now." Coyote said calmly, and went on with...
"I gave him new, cold Gatorade for this water. And he got skins to make a hat for the cold moons. I showed him how to do it too. It is a good trade for him."
Dartania's brain fog was gone now. She was grateful that this new comer was kind to her friend, so she slowed her roll on the interrogation, though he was so very puzzling to her and she craved more answers. She nodded to him,
"....oh good....I worry for him."
She paused, trying to be patient herself. Her eyes and knitted brow told Coyote everything he needed to know. He silently gave her soft spoken permission to insist with her queries, with a languid blink of his eyes. (not unlike the way a cat will purr and link at you with an 'i love you' when you are speaking to them lovingly)
"Ask. I will answer." he stated.
Her mind still reeled with so much she needed to know and had to say. She took a breath and thought a minute before speaking. She would try to go slow and wait for the answers she was desperate to learn.
"Thank you for the food and water, and taking care of Tat. WHO are you? WHAT are you?...a were creature like me?"
she asked carefully.
Dartania and Mack were werewolves. Their 'turn' was an amalgamating into creatures that were a 'whole conglomerate' of wolf and man together. Never turned fully into 'wolf' as this talking coyote before her was. Coyote knew this, and knew she'd never seen anything like HIM.
"The same as you. Not the same as you. Like you, I am another kind of 'Other'. There are many 'different ones' all over our world. Mm...and all the worlds."
Dartania nodded, trying to understand.
"I don't know what that means."
Coyote then sat bolt upright, head and ears held high, his eyes widened and riveted hers as he answered with a definite and sure air of authority,
"It's alright. You don't have to. Just know that it is. I am a coyote, but more. I am 'COYOTE'. First Coyote.... though I have many names. I am God's Dog. And I was sent here to help you. The winds came and sang to me, they told what The Creator had for me to do."
Dartania then knew she was in the presence of a powerful being, who was far older and more knowing than herself (and even Mack).
"What is that? And why me?... what am I to do... after 'this'?"
she asked solemnly and respectfully.
Old Man Coyote (who was sometimes known to be a great trickster god) then relaxed his stance and gaze. With tongue lolling and tail wagging he answered yet again,
"Dunno, Wolf Woman! Not my business!"
he laughed.
But on seeing the little hurt that Dartania tried to hide in her eyes, he became more serious and stepped forward to give her cheek a quick friendly lick. He rubbed his head to hers and quietly told her,
"Whatever you are meant to do, you will know when the time or times come, child. Right now you need to wash your face and hands, eat, and drink. Then go see what comes next. Mm...personally? I think your work on this good world is not done. Not just ANYONE gets brought back like YOU have. When you're fed and watered, go find that He Wolf of yours. You and he have big good works to do. ...I'm thinkin'."
Dartania smiled relief and hugged his neck. Then she got her legs completely free from the grave. She washed, ate and drank. Then Coyote and the She Wolf said goodbyes, parted, and moved onto all the whatevers that were to come.
The End
-Wolf
( I put this one Short short story in spoilers out of consideration for my fellow authors of last year's Halloween Story. The only reason I felt comfortable enough to write and post this, is because I created the characters "Mack, Dartania and Tatty". Lol, "Coyote" I did not create. The Great Spirit did that. ❤....but Old Man Coyote is a good friend of mine. I've known him for many, many Moons...many, turns of the Summers and Winters. ❤)
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Post by diobolic on Aug 16, 2022 2:00:58 GMT
I enjoyed it wolf. Reminds me a bit of the Phoenix born from flames... and the creation of a new story rises an old unfinished one. 👍
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