It's time for another installment in my Five Sentence Fiction adventure! The prompt Lillie offered up this week is FORGOTTEN.
Unchained
Chapter
15: Forgotten
Flowers
All indicators suggested that this planet, Renlatt 4, was
also the world upon which the mysterious woman from the visions was murdered:
the constellations were a spot on match, the vegetation of the planet resembled
what Ylana saw day in and day out, and the triple moon system orbiting the planet
was a dead-ringer for a rather intense dream from the night before. Yet, when Ylana and Nara landed the small ship
on a backwater continent, neither of them had a clue where to start.
Image courtesy of EA / FreeDigitalPhotos.net |
Ylana stood on a deck at the spaceport restaurant,
looking out over the treetops as she absent-mindedly twirled the necklace containing
the purple stone around her fingers, while Nara sipped a bright yellow
alcoholic beverage beside her.
Then, without warning, the image exploded
in Ylana’s mind with such power that she actually fell backwards onto the deck.
A bouquet of red flowers lay discarded and forgotten
on a beach, the ocean waters buffeting them as the tide moved in and out, and from the hazy black periphery of the vision, a severed male head washed up and
rolled on top of the withered petals.
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Such an imagination. I would love to travel with you on this journey -- if only we could, as writers, as people, join the adventure of each others creative journey -- just for awhile...
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Please lead on!
Beautiful imagery followed by the shocker of the severed head. Great piece.
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