#condesceculler

[aquaticcaliginous]

Picture Perfect (EAP 3/8)

A drabble based on the “A Dream Within a Dream” prompt from the Edgar Allen Poe prompt list, part three of the eight prompts sent to me.

A Dream Within a Dream: Themes of importance, running out of time, and concern

I do not have a picture perfect family.

My lover is often away from home on business, leaving me to raise our children by myself. He’s been away for the majority of their lives, and they’ve taken that to be normal.

It is more rare than common among our kind for there to be only one parental figure involved rather than two, but since this all began I fell like the presence of two parents would make things easier for us. I didn’t think much of the idea of parenthood until the role of parent was almost forced onto me. There are some times where I wonder how this even came to be and what it would be like if it never happened at all.

But I imagine things would have been worse.

All I know for certain is I can’t really back out of where I am now without severe consequences, and I don’t understand why my lover has to be away from his family during this time when we’d need him more than ever.

He was not there when they took their first steps on two feet, or spoke their first words. Significant milestones were missed, and I’m certain more will be in the future.

I understand the reasons for his absence, and I am not angry with him for something beyond his control. My biggest concern is that someday, there will be no more milestones. He will come home and our children will be grown, and they will not miss him like I did.

It’s a sad thing to think about, but it’s something I think about often without realizing it.

I hope someday, very soon, this fear will be put to rest.

[or8weaver]

@condesceculler started following you

Hello.

I’m Captain Spinneret Mindfang of the pir8 ship Relentless. 

And who might you be?

[thorndancer-blog]

@condesceculler started following you

And I was just thinking I needed another fuchsia-blooded tyrant in my life. 

[discardedfantrolls]

The Loneliness of Outer Space

It’s hard to tell how long you’ve been here, staring up at the shattered sky. It was like the blackness was made of glass, except that the cracks were flashing colors. You know you should send out another S.O.S. message, but you were tired. Coffee first, you’d decide. That is, if you had any left.

Once you were sitting down with a steaming mug, you sigh and pick up the microphone to your radio transmitter. You tune the channel to the one that would broadcast publicly across realms. The widest range to reach any ears.

“This is an official S.O.S. This is contact attempt number two thousand, seventy-four. My name is Athena Exampt. I’m stranded in the furthest ring, I don’t know where I am, or how to get out of here, the sky is shattering, and my supplies are running low. Ran out of coffee this morning. It’s dark, and quiet… And I’m lonely. Please if theres anyone out there listening to this … Please…”

You pause as your voice cracks and you let out a sob. No one’s ever going to respond to these. You know that and yet you keep trying. Every day since you woke up here, you’ve calibrated your radio to stretch out to the omniverse, where anyone in any realm could hear you. No one ever responds.

[turntechgodtits]

condesceculler replied to your post:condesceculler replied to your post : ==>...

> It’s fucking perfect. Somewhere, far, far away, An Emperor cries a single perfect tear at something he doesn’t even know happened. And no one notices.

[sukeiban]

condesceculler replied to your post:STOP. I DAMARA. NOT YOU.

is this a persona thing

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[mirthfulwarlock]

condesceculler

tumultuousbinary

rightsideofawrong

wickeddeed

It seems I have utterly failed in my attempts to keep the plague spread by the knowledge of my existence from infecting others. I will do what I can do assist in it's treatment in the only way I can. With greetings.

Hello there, I suppose I should thank you for making your selves aware of my presence. Though I believe you will all come to regret it.

[viridian-trolls]

THE WINNERS:

>FIRST PLACE: CONDESCECULLER

>SECOND PLACE: THETRICKSTERSTHOUGHTS

>THIRD PLACE: DEEPSEADWELLER-DOMAIN

Congrats!