Who Could Count In Thousands?
from Voxart by H. C. Turk
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A reading from my novel, Shadow Dance, from chapter 12: The Light Of A Different Life. In 1853, on an island near Indonesia, a girl is selected to unite her nation. Starling Agara becomes Princess Of Betrothal at the age of fourteen. In seven years, she will marry the nation's prince, joining her country's opposing political factions. At the wedding, however, the king's opponents slaughter nearly everyone. Missionaries take Starling to America. Starling begins her true journey when the missionaries are killed by her countrymen. For the next year, Starling traverses her nation, gaining the throne by living the fantastic rituals that previously were only myths.
In this scene, the bad guy (Kelada) is stalking Starling, as he does for seven years. Here, he only sees her footprints, but remembers when he first viewed her, during an assassination attempt. In those seven years, he never sees her face, not even when she turns to him the moment before he dies.
In this scene, the bad guy (Kelada) is stalking Starling, as he does for seven years. Here, he only sees her footprints, but remembers when he first viewed her, during an assassination attempt. In those seven years, he never sees her face, not even when she turns to him the moment before he dies.
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To arrive at history, Kelada found a different route. With the sun pressing low rays along the landscape, he looked down to the emotional state left by traffic. A broad moat, retaining sand of every color found in the nation, encircled the temple. To enter and depart, the dancers stepped across white and black and brown and tan and gold. The footprints numbered hundreds or more, and who could count in thousands? Without correlating height, weight, and corresponding depth of impression, Kelada found her footprints. In this light, each shape was but a bright bottom with a darker edge revealed by an illumination that people can better accept than understand. Shadows, shapes implied by negated light, do not elude revelation. Though the sun throws its light through space with ferocious heat, observation is an acceptance, not an activity. Kelada knew the fem’s steps from history, illumed by the light of a different life when the girl had been blessed, and cast her curse across his heart.
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from Voxart,
released December 5, 2014
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H. C. Turk
Space pirates steal skinny gals. Ideas are greater monsters than the demons they explain. I'd bare my soul, but don't want
to bore.
These Mystiphysical treasures can be found in my work, brainy music to make you think about feeling fantastic. In a sonic world where art is the ultimate animal, music evolution never ends, rising from the depths of the psyche to sing across a new sky.
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