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[Short Story] The Presiding Thrum of Mars

51.1k Graingy  2 months ago

Yet another Hundred-Word, last in my backlog. This one in particular is probably the closest I've skirted to flat-out poetry. Maybe more of these will come with time, maybe not. For the while, the list as it stands.


The Red World hums, its shell alive debating the pounding deep below. The rock itself is toiling for Earthly inspirations, indomitable and driven yet ever without direction. The course is set and certain, but the fine? Undetermined. Hence the stones deliberate the heartbeat of their wonders.

The titan centerstage booms, subterranean shocks announce, but aside the boulder’s butted by cobble since pronounced. It argues its agenda, the rate the ground will thump, though across the void from another realm the pebble casts its doubts.

Sovereign, the Union is, but if its dreams be made it needs another faction’s gracious aid.

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    51.1k Graingy

    @Unwanted the first few Hundred-Words depend on very particular interpretations of individual words.

    2 months ago
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    @Graingy wdym? (I haven’t read them all, mainly the big ones I haven’t read..)

    2 months ago
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    51.1k Graingy

    @Unwanted including the other 100-words?

    2 months ago
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    @Graingy most of your forums I could understand.

    2 months ago
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    51.1k Graingy

    @Unwanted I applaud you. That or I’ve gotten better at being less ambiguous while still getting the message across.

    2 months ago
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    @Graingy yes

    2 months ago
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    51.1k Graingy

    @Unwanted Interpret too?
    @Ashdenpaw1 Martian politics are such a fucking drag.

    2 months ago
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    2,333 Ashdenpaw1

    Pray tell, esteemed interlocutor, I find myself shrouded in a miasma of cognitive obscurity, bereft of comprehension concerning the unfolding circumstances; furthermore, I confess to a lamentable indolence that dissuades me from perusing the entirety of this missive; ergo, might I implore you to deign to enlighten me with a succinct elucidation regarding the paramount essence of this very matter at hand?

    +1 2 months ago
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    @Boeing727200F @Graingy
    I read them…
    😭

    +2 2 months ago
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    51.1k Graingy

    @Boeing727200F I’m not sure if it was dislike so much as many of them weren’t actually “fun facts”, and many had little to no relevance to SP, so people aren’t interested when there’s loads of them.

    2 months ago
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    @Graingy
    yeah.
    honestly i do think i know the reason why my random fun facts of the day never really got attention is because people disliked them. i did try to bring them back but it seems that a certain somebody got pissed off at their existence and kept leaving comments screaming to take them down/spamming in the comments so i took them down.
    i just think people for your short stories just go "huh, interesting" and just upvote without not reading them i guess.

    2 months ago
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    51.1k Graingy

    @Boeing727200F Well, these are a bit different, eh?

    2 months ago
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    @Graingy I genuinely don't know.
    had the same experience with my imfamous "random fun facts of the days"

    2 months ago
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    51.1k Graingy

    Is anybody actually reading these? Or are these upvotes just because people know me?

    2 months ago
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    51.1k Graingy

    @YarisSedan
    @MIGFOXHOUND31BSM26
    @EnglishGarden

    2 months ago