Dec 03, 2003

Lex Vignettes 5

For those of you just tuning in, I am in the process of writing a series of short Vignettes from what is eventually to be a full length novel. See the fiction section for the other Vignettes.. Fair warning - depending on your definition, these may not be work safe. I feel like slapping one of those parental advisory stickers on here.

Oh wait.

[Parental Advisory: 
Explicit Lyrics]

There we go

-------------------------------

I awoke cradled in my new stripwear, comfortably nestled in its many arms, just outside the gigantic shining surface of the outside of a city node.

It's amazing how wakings can be so symbolic of change. I'd woken twice now unfamiliar settings in the outcity - both times in situations so far different from the staid life I'd lived until so recently. First inside the sleek, silver mobile doctor, feeling rebellious and anxious, and now here, in the waving grass and sun and wind of the wild, feeling calmer than I'd ever remembered feeling.

See more ...