Water Before Dawn
✨The siren's microstory✨
I saw fire and I rushed there. Fast.
I tried to save them. I tried to save her.
I've always believed that fire was King; that fire came first. A spectacular apricot sunrise brightens the North Atlantic in spring; igniting the day.
I’ve watched that sunrise since childhood; dreaming of feeling a connection. Lonely, I befriended the clouds that danced near the icebergs.
The dawn was my only friend. Fire was cardinal; at least, for me.
Until 1912. Until that April, when I met her.
Then quickly, I lost her to water, the Queen.
The ocean had outrun the daylight.
About the Creator
Gina C.
Poet | Author | Architect of Worlds
Sowing stories rooted in culture, origin, metamorphosis, resilience, language & love via fantasy, myth, magical realism & botanical prose
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Not There
He always touched me like he was checking I was still there. Not urgently. Not roughly. Just a hand on my wrist, my shoulder, the small of my back when we moved through rooms together. A habit I learned to expect before I learned to question. I told myself it was affection, that he needed closeness the way some people need reassurance. I never pulled away. I didn’t want him to think I could disappear again.
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"The ocean had outrun the daylight." I love that line. Gorgeous artwork you decided to include.
Always with Your dichotomy of fire and ice, and Your story telling is just as poetic as Your own stories. You cease to amaze me, Gina. I don't know if this is a Titanic reference, or just an alternate universe where a siren/mermaid witnesses the day the sun dies off, or the earth's rotation shifts so much that her ocean no longer sees the sun.
Absolutely beautiful! Such rich imagery in your words, and I love the pictures! Gorgeous all around, Gina! Congrats on top story!
Congrats on top story! Well deserved :)
Beautiful story telling and the images are stunning ❤️
Outstanding! Beautiful title!! Awesome story! Congratulations on Top Story!
Oh this is beautiful! Thank you for sharing it with us 😁
I so want this to be a title of one of my books: "A spectacular apricot sunrise". I'll even settle for someone giving me that as a nickname. Congratulations on Top Story!
I enjoy those words thanks❤
Congratulations on your Top Story✨🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉✨
Great story❤️😉💯
Well done! Beautiful imagery.
Gina, the images are breathtaking!!! and i love the play between fire and water here, gorgeous...
This is outstanding! I want to read more… great work!
Wow! Such a rich world so close to our own yet so distant. I want to know more!
And there it is. Congrats, my friend.
Excellent
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congratulations!!
Everything eventually returns to the ocean. We only borrow it
Woohoo. Congratulations Gina !!! 🥰
Congratulations on this beautiful top story!😌♥️
Sound the trumpets. Awesome stuff, pal! Congrats on Top Story!
Congratulations, my dear friend!!