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Welcome to my writing blog, my little virtual bookshelf where I put some of my writings, poems, thoughts on the writing process, the occasional prompt, things like that!
I hope yāall will like what I share here š
Writing Prompt: A world where storks do, in fact, deliver babies, but instead of visibly being birds that descend from the sky with a parcel theyāre magical beings that take inconspicuous human forms to bring the babies to the right home in the guise of doctors or midwives, be it at the hospital or through house calls, or under the guise of good samaritans offering help for births happening somewhere unexpected where a professional canāt arrive in time. They donāt always succeed, but they always do their best to complete the delivery no matter how exceptional the circumstances.
It was raining the night Rowan got the call. A freight truck had jackknifed on the highway just outside a wooded stretch, blocking both lanes. Paramedics were delayed. The dispatcherās voice was taut with worry. A woman in a sedan behind the crash had gone into labor. No way to airlift, no way through.
Rowan didnāt need to ask where. He could feel it. The old pull, like a knot tightening behind his sternum, telling him thereās a delivery to make.
He didnāt bother with the car. It wouldnāt get far. Instead, he stepped into the rain, pulled his coat tighter, and began to walk. His feet hit pavement like soft thunder. People who passed him didnāt notice him unless they were already looking. Those who did only remembered a vague impression: a man with kind eyes. Maybe a doctor. Maybe someone else. Hard to say.
Rowanās body was that way by design. Storks, after all, didnāt come with beaks and wings anymore. Not since the world got suspicious of miracles.
āø»
The crash site was chaos. Flashing lights lit up the trees in blue and red. A fireman waved him off, shouting something about clearance, but Rowan touched his shoulder and whispered, āLet me through.ā That was enough.
He found the car a few yards beyond the wreck, tilted in a shallow ditch. The backseat was folded down, and the woman lay stretched across it, sweat glistening on her brow. A manāher husband, maybeāwas pacing nearby, fumbling through a CPR brochure he thought might double as a birthing manual.
Rowan knelt.
āWhoā? Are you a doctor?ā
āSomething like that,ā he said.
The womanāEmily, her name bloomed quietly in his mind like a crocus pushing through snowālooked up at him through narrowed eyes. āCan you⦠help?ā
āYes.ā Rowan reached into the folds of his coat. Not for toolsāhe didnāt need thoseābut for focus. For the old magic, still alive in the marrow of his borrowed bones.
He guided her breathing, helped her push. Coaxed the little one out into the wet night. He wrapped the boy in his own scarfāwool, worn, but warmāand held him close.
The baby blinked up at him with bright, astonished eyes.
āIs he⦠okay?ā the father asked, trembling.
Rowan looked down at the child in his arms. The boyās soul was still fresh, threads barely knotted. There had almost been a tear in the patternātoo much stress, too little airābut it had mended.
āHeās perfect.ā
āø»
Later, while paramedics arrived and chaos began to resolve into protocol, Rowan slipped away. He didnāt need thanks. He never did.
As he walked, his steps grew lighter. The rain eased.
He felt the presence before he saw her. Another stork, leaning against a lamppost in the shape of a teenage girl with a silver eyebrow ring and nurseās scrubs.
āYou made it,ā she said. āJust barely.ā
āStill counts,ā Rowan said, smiling faintly.
āYouāll be back in the sky soon, you know,ā she said, looking up. āThey only give you the ground jobs when youāve still got something left to learn.ā
Rowan watched the sky.
āI donāt mind walking,ā he said. āSome deliveries are worth the steps.ā
And with that, he vanished into the nightāone more shadow in the city, one more miracle in human form.
Still moving. Still delivering.
Always.
Actually giddy right now, this is officially the first full piece of writing spurred by one of my prompts and itās absolutely beautiful, I love it so much, thank you for sharing this :D
Oh my God, thank you, I just loved the prompt, itās also 3 AM and Iām very sleep deprived so I needed to get something out before my brain would let me sleep
Thatās so real lol, gotta love the sleep deprived writer life X3 Iām really glad you liked the prompt! ^w^ Hope you get some good rest š
Writing Prompt: A world where storks do, in fact, deliver babies, but instead of visibly being birds that descend from the sky with a parcel theyāre magical beings that take inconspicuous human forms to bring the babies to the right home in the guise of doctors or midwives, be it at the hospital or through house calls, or under the guise of good samaritans offering help for births happening somewhere unexpected where a professional canāt arrive in time. They donāt always succeed, but they always do their best to complete the delivery no matter how exceptional the circumstances.
It was raining the night Rowan got the call. A freight truck had jackknifed on the highway just outside a wooded stretch, blocking both lanes. Paramedics were delayed. The dispatcherās voice was taut with worry. A woman in a sedan behind the crash had gone into labor. No way to airlift, no way through.
Rowan didnāt need to ask where. He could feel it. The old pull, like a knot tightening behind his sternum, telling him thereās a delivery to make.
He didnāt bother with the car. It wouldnāt get far. Instead, he stepped into the rain, pulled his coat tighter, and began to walk. His feet hit pavement like soft thunder. People who passed him didnāt notice him unless they were already looking. Those who did only remembered a vague impression: a man with kind eyes. Maybe a doctor. Maybe someone else. Hard to say.
Rowanās body was that way by design. Storks, after all, didnāt come with beaks and wings anymore. Not since the world got suspicious of miracles.
āø»
The crash site was chaos. Flashing lights lit up the trees in blue and red. A fireman waved him off, shouting something about clearance, but Rowan touched his shoulder and whispered, āLet me through.ā That was enough.
He found the car a few yards beyond the wreck, tilted in a shallow ditch. The backseat was folded down, and the woman lay stretched across it, sweat glistening on her brow. A manāher husband, maybeāwas pacing nearby, fumbling through a CPR brochure he thought might double as a birthing manual.
Rowan knelt.
āWhoā? Are you a doctor?ā
āSomething like that,ā he said.
The womanāEmily, her name bloomed quietly in his mind like a crocus pushing through snowālooked up at him through narrowed eyes. āCan you⦠help?ā
āYes.ā Rowan reached into the folds of his coat. Not for toolsāhe didnāt need thoseābut for focus. For the old magic, still alive in the marrow of his borrowed bones.
He guided her breathing, helped her push. Coaxed the little one out into the wet night. He wrapped the boy in his own scarfāwool, worn, but warmāand held him close.
The baby blinked up at him with bright, astonished eyes.
āIs he⦠okay?ā the father asked, trembling.
Rowan looked down at the child in his arms. The boyās soul was still fresh, threads barely knotted. There had almost been a tear in the patternātoo much stress, too little airābut it had mended.
āHeās perfect.ā
āø»
Later, while paramedics arrived and chaos began to resolve into protocol, Rowan slipped away. He didnāt need thanks. He never did.
As he walked, his steps grew lighter. The rain eased.
He felt the presence before he saw her. Another stork, leaning against a lamppost in the shape of a teenage girl with a silver eyebrow ring and nurseās scrubs.
āYou made it,ā she said. āJust barely.ā
āStill counts,ā Rowan said, smiling faintly.
āYouāll be back in the sky soon, you know,ā she said, looking up. āThey only give you the ground jobs when youāve still got something left to learn.ā
Rowan watched the sky.
āI donāt mind walking,ā he said. āSome deliveries are worth the steps.ā
And with that, he vanished into the nightāone more shadow in the city, one more miracle in human form.
Still moving. Still delivering.
Always.
Actually giddy right now, this is officially the first full piece of writing spurred by one of my prompts and itās absolutely beautiful, I love it so much, thank you for sharing this :D
Writing Prompt: A world where storks do, in fact, deliver babies, but instead of visibly being birds that descend from the sky with a parcel theyāre magical beings that take inconspicuous human forms to bring the babies to the right home in the guise of doctors or midwives, be it at the hospital or through house calls, or under the guise of good samaritans offering help for births happening somewhere unexpected where a professional canāt arrive in time. They donāt always succeed, but they always do their best to complete the delivery no matter how exceptional the circumstances.
Writing Prompt: You have been isekaiād into a magical world without phones or electricity, and your phone has been isekaiād with you. Somehow you have reception and it is fully functional, and after the first time its battery ran out you managed to find a basic energy charm at a market that worked in place of a charger to restore its battery.
Throughout this journey your travel companion has become convinced that the phone is a living creature of some kind, perhaps your pet or your familiar, and that you are a practicing Necromancer since you were able to āreviveā it after it died once you had the right items at your disposal. After your first attempt at explaining the actual situation failed, you decided to just go with it.
"so... what exactly does it eat? i mean, yeah you can revive it, but surely you don't just let it starve. right?"
"...riiighht. um. it eats... uh... GRAPES!!! yeah. grapes!"
cue you finding your party members trying to stuff grapes into the charging port of your phone
LMFAO beautiful
Partiās Poems
Legacy of the Blade
āWhat is a legacy?ā
A question first posed to me in a story of a man fighting to be free.
Far from the first time Iād heard the word, but the first time it stuck with me beyond a surface level. Albeit just for a bit of whimsy.
āSeeds in a garden,ā said he. āOnes you never get to see.ā It caught me, I admit, in the way a vague tune may catch your ear before it dissipates; beautiful, without making its way to the heart.
And then it was another man, and the grand design he built upon a false sea. He wanted to be remembered, wanted it desperately. He would claw and cheat and kill for this supposed destiny. And his corrupted fervour did arrest me. But, like the first, it didnāt quite test me.
Still, I held onto these nuggets of foolās gold, for I too chase remembrance. I wish for the world to know of me. I wish to be perceived, for them to share my reveries. I wish to spread my dreams across the land for all to see, and as they gleam that shine will be my ecstasy.
But it was you who taught me what it truly means.
Before you, my pyrite pieces were tales without veracity, songs with no melody.
But you are a glimmering crown, a shining bell, a ringing truth and an eternal promise. Then you were gone, and so many fell, gilded wings with the sun too far from us.
We faced impossibility; how did we lose what could never die?
And yet we kept turning, even in this molten wake of a sun swallowed by the horizon. Melted tears and broken pieces. Clinging to whatever light could guide us through the fog and remind us of your gold-red sky.
You made me understand. For years have passed, and your legend is twofold, and your glow will only brighten as more years go by.
I heard your voice again this morning, through glass panes and carried on rays of sun. I stood in the kitchen, watching alone through a one-way window, as tea leaves soaked into hot water cupped in a withered-black skull; I listened with tears blurring my eyes as your voice rang clear as day, even years after it went silent. Because it never truly did go silent, in the end.
It was then, heart full and broken all at once, chest warm with grief and hope, that I whispered with the certainty one can only feel at the very core of their soul:
āThis is a legacy.ā
Partiās Poems
The Keeper
I am the dust beneath your feet
I am the ink on crumbled scrolls
I am the whispers of languages lost
I am the tales told and retold
I am the stones that survive kingdomsā fall
I am the river that cuts through the land
I am the watcher of all that has been
I am the cavern walls painted by hand
I am the warmth that exists in your core
I am the chill that lulls you to sleep
I am the one who remembers it all
I am the bearer of stories you seek
Partiās Poems
Forgotten God
To be loved is to live
It is an indescribable light
That fills your entire being
Turns your heart to gold
And your soul to ethereal eternity
To be loved is to live
It is countless voices
Holding you close
Warm arms embracing you
And you know you never shall fall
To be loved is to live
And I have died
As I sit in a cold and empty immortality
No voice speaks my name
No hands deliver me prayers
And I am nothing
For I am forgotten
And to be loved is to live.
Partiās Poems
Immortal
Let me speak to you of loneliness
When I swim in a lonesome sky
Once-silver clouds shall fade to grey
And every breath of wind shall die.
Let me speak to you of sorrow
When I tread on grieving ground
Only my set of footprints remain
The final sign of life Iāve found.
Let me speak to you of time
When I have been here since clockās end
A day and eternity one and the same
The dust of the past as my only friend.
Partiās Poems
The Garden
In the garden of the in-between, I rest in a time that never was and always will be
Suspended in a darkness so complete, a liminal world, a frozen moment
And in this limbo I lift my hands, pale fingers darting as a moth in the moonlight,
Making sharp contact and striking the void, hearing it echo, creating a rhythm, resonating against the absence of everything
Tapping morse code into the emptiness, S.O.S, because they are the only letters I know
And feeling it tremble, the echo of something tapping back
A chord is tied around my heart and leading me forward step by step
My feet drift, and I let the threads that tether me guide the way, changing course, pulling me backwards along a tightrope
I am brought to the darkest watercolour ballroom, dancing chest to chest with my love, masqued in crimson and mauve
And the warmth that envelops me is a pitch black comfort unlike anything the waking world can know
In this garden, I am stone
With a living pulse beating inside
A thin layer cracks and crumbles away from my fingers with every twitch of the marionette strings circling my wrists
Until they snap in a chord of lucidity
And I fly from the garden like a statue touched by the antithesis of Midas
Partiās Poems
The Glade
Deep in the heart of the wild wood
On nights when the sky ripples like a dark velvet sheet
And the stars sing of forgotten souls, their voices glittering in the sky and dissipating across the land before their light can grace a mortal ear
And the moon casts each leaf and branch in a soft silver veilā¦
These are the nights of the Glade.
In the very centre of the great kingdom of trees, a clearing opens to cup the light of ethereal night, and upon a carpet of moss,
The elven queen slips through the beams of the moon, and drinks in their glow, secrets of the night that only she may know
The fair folk flit ātween trunk and bramble,
And attend her as she traverses the Glade softer than a pale shadow
The starlight catching in her hair, otherworldly jewels,
Until she takes her leave
And only the faintest of footsteps remain.
Partiās Poems
Roses
We stand in a field of roses,
And bright as the yellows may burn,
I hope when I give you a red one,
Youāll give me a red in return.
Writing Prompt: A story that takes place on earth, exactly as it is irl, with one difference: whenever someone goes āpspspspspspsā a summoning circle will appear in front of them and a cat will rise up out of it.
Writing Prompt: Aliens come to Earth to abduct and study humans but accidentally abduct an Earth cryptid like Bigfoot or Mothman or something and mistakenly think that all humans are like that.
Writing Prompt: A story thatās written with a clear main character, theyāre the only one with plot armour, theyāre the big hero, they save the day, but the POV is never theirs at any point throughout the story, itās always the POV of a side character, and anything that could happen to any side character can happen to those POVs. They could die or just give directions and never be seen again or try to scam the main character and fail or whatever else, and the POV of each chapter changes to whichever side character is interacting with the main character enough to give the reader a clear view of the plot. So the main characterās story and journey makes sense and can be followed through the people who encounter them but the story is never told through the main characterās eyes.
Writing Prompt: A sticky note that reads āi o u 1 skeletonā
Writing Prompt: āYou cannot trust a word I say, despite the fact that I will never, ever tell a lie.ā