The Spark #1: The Gathering Starts Now
The Gathering is an opportunity to share the story you wrote for The Spark #1. Please give us a brief teaser (one sentence) and then add the link in this discussion thread. Be sure to stop by throughout the day and engage with your fellow adventurers. The Lunar Awards is a place to discover and to be discovered. We want to connect you with the community. If you’ve already posted your story in the original prompt discussion thread, that’s okay! You can post it in both places, so it gets optimal readership.
Many of you stretched your creative muscles with this prompt, and amid the busyness of life, you managed to get words written. We gather to share today, but the discussion thread will remain open should you decide to try your hand at the prompts in the future. Come back and add a link to your story. Even if the fire grows cold, we still maintain our burning desire to read good speculative fiction.
Thanks for organising!!
Here's my dystopian 🔥 short story, "Post Tenebras Lux":
Xiawa Adamson has served the island of Lyis for decades, seeking to remedy the effects of the Darkness -- but have her efforts borne the fruit she hoped for?
https://coraclevoyager.substack.com/p/post-tenebras-lux
I wrote one! Partly because I saw only Caitriana had shared one and I wouldn't like to think of her or her story being here all on its lonesome.
Partly because I wanted to set myself a little challenge, namely give myself just this afternoon to write a story, and obviously partly because I love little prompts to inspire me and this one definitely got my brain going.
I wouldn't want to say too much about it because otherwise that would spoil the laugh-out-loud joke which comes in after about 100 words. But it is highly humorous sci-fi and it features a demon AI. It's just shy of 2,000 words, so isn't a long read.
I hope you very much enjoy it: https://open.substack.com/pub/inadifferentplace/p/game-of-drones?r=2s9hod&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true