Cheyela Effinger
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Colorful Summer
It is so easy to romanticize the past. Sometimes when the life before you is so bleak and unforgiving, all you can do is look back on times when color filled your view. When the world seemed to sing and dance under a bright sun. For some of us, like me, it is so far and in between we experience those glowing slivers of time.
By Cheyela Effinger 4 years ago in Humans
Eyes from the Deep
The anticipated message lit up Genna's screen at exactly 8 o'clock a.m., on the seventh day of her isolated quarantine. Her previous hours staring at the dome ceiling above her, had brought her to contemplate the heavy black water above. She wondered at how everything could seem so calm. How could the unimaginable pressure of the Atlantic Ocean above her seem so still and unmovable, but in reality, it was a seething beast, just waiting for any chance to rush in and crush Gennas body with its immense weight.
By Cheyela Effinger 4 years ago in Earth
The Will of Blackwater
The anticipated message lit up Genna's screen at exactly 8 o'clock am, on the seventh day of her isolation. Genna had spent the previous hours staring at the dome ceiling above her, contemplating the black circle at the peak of the dome and the weight of the entire ocean on top of it. She wondered at how everything seemed so calm. How could the unimaginable pressure of the Atlantic above her seem so still and unmovable while it seethed with a force so great that if not for the perfectly designed bubble, her body would collapse like a tin can, folding in on itself, twisting and distorting.
By Cheyela Effinger 4 years ago in Fiction
