Disclaimer: They belong to good ole' Gorgie-boy, everything, except for
whatever characters happen to pop from my twisted imagination.
~8~
A light flashed in an alleyway, but it wasn't noticed in the glare of the intense twin suns.
A figure hit the ground with a groan.
They did not move an inch after that.
~8~
(About 35 years earlier)
Four-year-old Nicole Keirnan sat on a bench near the playground, waiting for her mom to pick her up from daycare. She was beginning to get bored, and the playground looked like so much fun. She checked to make sure the teacher wasn't watching; then she snuck over to the play set.
She climbed up the steps and went down the lower slide. After doing this a few times her gaze locked onto the net-ladder-thingy. Only the bigger kids were allowed to go on it, because the little kids, like Nikki, could accidentally fall through one of the openings and get her. Also that ladder led up to the high part of the play set and the really tall slide.
Nikki glanced around once more, making sure that the teachers were still absent. She hitched up her little pink backpack up on her back and reached for two holds a little above her head. She put her right foot in a hold a few inches off the ground and, gripping the hand holds as tight as she could, raised her left foot up and put it in a hold a level up from her right one, like she had seen the big kids do. She grinned proudly when she found that she could do it. 'Wait till momma sees me!' she thought. She continued her slow accent to the top. Her feet slipped a couple of times but she regained her footing. She was starting to get tired and was scared that she wouldn't make it to the top. She lifted her head and saw that she only had to reach up and grasp the edge of the platform. She released the hold her right hand had been maintaining and reached up. Her left arm was trembling at the strain of holding on.
Her hand slipped.
Nikki screamed as she fell backward.
The fall seemed longer than she thought it should be.
She hit the ground hard on her right side, with her right arm underneath her chest. Her head hit the ground hard as well.
Nikki lay on her stomach, crying as she worked to draw in a breath. She lifted her head and opened her eyes as much as she could. All she could make out were several shadowy beings standing around her.
Her energy spent, her head dropped back down, her eyes closed and a black oblivion embraced her.
~*~
So how was that for a start?
~8~
A light flashed in an alleyway, but it wasn't noticed in the glare of the intense twin suns.
A figure hit the ground with a groan.
They did not move an inch after that.
~8~
(About 35 years earlier)
Four-year-old Nicole Keirnan sat on a bench near the playground, waiting for her mom to pick her up from daycare. She was beginning to get bored, and the playground looked like so much fun. She checked to make sure the teacher wasn't watching; then she snuck over to the play set.
She climbed up the steps and went down the lower slide. After doing this a few times her gaze locked onto the net-ladder-thingy. Only the bigger kids were allowed to go on it, because the little kids, like Nikki, could accidentally fall through one of the openings and get her. Also that ladder led up to the high part of the play set and the really tall slide.
Nikki glanced around once more, making sure that the teachers were still absent. She hitched up her little pink backpack up on her back and reached for two holds a little above her head. She put her right foot in a hold a few inches off the ground and, gripping the hand holds as tight as she could, raised her left foot up and put it in a hold a level up from her right one, like she had seen the big kids do. She grinned proudly when she found that she could do it. 'Wait till momma sees me!' she thought. She continued her slow accent to the top. Her feet slipped a couple of times but she regained her footing. She was starting to get tired and was scared that she wouldn't make it to the top. She lifted her head and saw that she only had to reach up and grasp the edge of the platform. She released the hold her right hand had been maintaining and reached up. Her left arm was trembling at the strain of holding on.
Her hand slipped.
Nikki screamed as she fell backward.
The fall seemed longer than she thought it should be.
She hit the ground hard on her right side, with her right arm underneath her chest. Her head hit the ground hard as well.
Nikki lay on her stomach, crying as she worked to draw in a breath. She lifted her head and opened her eyes as much as she could. All she could make out were several shadowy beings standing around her.
Her energy spent, her head dropped back down, her eyes closed and a black oblivion embraced her.
~*~
So how was that for a start?
