This is a bit of fiction that was supposed to have been a two-paragraph demo I was doing on WHY you build Dot world—but that exploded into a complete scene. And the start of a SECOND short story I want to write. đ
Katie was walking along the path back to her dorm, kicking the gravel in her frustration, when something went âclink.â
Dusk was falling, and she was tired, but that had been a heavy clinkâan expensive clink. She had a ton of trigonometry waiting on the third floor, and a miserable hockey practice behind her, and the idea of something interesting between those two grim bookends of time sounded good.
She walked to where sheâd thought she heard the metal sound, and crouched, and looked around. It was too dark to see clearly, but she had a little flashlight on her keychain. She pulled it out, flicked it over the gravel, and something sparkled red at her.
Red. And gold. She picked it up. It was a ring, and looked as expensive as it had sounded. It was big and heavy enough to be a large manâs class ring, but first, it was sized to fit a womanâs finger, and second, it had nothing to do with higher education. The red stone formed the single, centered, enormous eye in an incredibly detailed face distorted by pain and rage. She stared at that face, shining her flashlight over what was undeniably beautiful craftsmanship twisted to a hideous end.
When she looked at the eye,it seemed to look back at her. To make promises. She felt vengeance, she felt rage, she felt death and towering stacks of corpses and, and at the same time felt, racing beneath her skin, the hunger to bring pain and ruin, along with a triumphant thread of mad jubilation, berserk and bloody glee. With a single disgusted overhand movement, she flung the ring across the green and walked away.
In the history of the ring, she was the first person whoâd touched it who hadnât put it on.
The next person who touched it would.
that’s great- I can’t wait to read the book too!
Ooo, I like that. That’s always how it works. Think of just making an example. Then, next thing you know, you’ve got an entire story.
I like it. Makes me want to read more like with Rewind.
Ariana
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y you are awesome! Are you sure this isn’t a novel. It really seems to have potential. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
By the way, I was reading about the self pub business set up course and I’d love to get some help since i’m just getting ready to get my website up and running and i feel lost. How long will it take until I can take this course 2 weeks, 4 weeks? I hope it’s soon. Make sure to put me on your list.
Oh, man. The last couple lines sent chills down my spine. I’d love to read the whole story someday! Completely understand why you want to finish it.