The girl floats in darkness, her hair fanning out delicate as seaweed. Her skin is clammy and white, broken by purple bruises like orchids in the snow. She has not been in the black water for long. Ragged cuts line her cheeks and arms, but there is no blood. A flowing dress wraps around her, hiding any further damage. Her arms are bound in front of her at the wrists. Cloudy, color-drained eyes stare up at the moon. Her jaw hangs limply open, and water laps in and out of her mouth.

Languidly, the current of the stream pulls her along, over silt, stone, and shining fish to places she never saw when she was alive. Tree branches reach out with grasping hands as she passes, but the river has her.

Her journey continues.

Something I wrote a few years back. It’s on my LJ, but I wanted to dredge it up and get it on Fragments of Shadow, just ’cause.

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The comic Kat and I were working on has been stalled at the same point for too long. It feels stale and lost. So we’re setting it aside. It needs to be largely rethought.

That said, we dusted off a manuscript I started at USF, and reworked it into a comic idea that we’re both really excited about. We’ve been working on it for only a few days and it’s already farther along than the other project ever was, in a way.

I have too many projects going on at once, again. I need to step back and reevaluate exactly what parts of my creative life are important to me. I’m not going to cancel things, just put them into something resembling priorities.

Obviously, if I owe you something, you’re priority number one. Which, of course, means that White Wolf, Third Eye Games and Ziraxia are first tier. Everything else is basically up in the air.

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Last night was a lot of laying in bed staring at the ceiling. I expected, with all the stress finally subsiding to a dull roar, to get a decent night’s sleep.

Not so much. I was suddenly wired in all the wrong ways. I couldn’t stop thinking about a whole lot of nothing, but I was too tired to get up. Blah.

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First draft done, and sent off. Now I can try and get some work done on my personal projects and 3EG before I get started on the next one.

In other news, my grandparents are settled into their new home in Arkansas. I miss them terribly, but I know they’ll be happier up there. It’s funny, because I’ve been so busy that I haven’t been able to see them much, but it was comforting to know they were at least nearby.

And I’ve seen Dark Knight twice now. Good doesn’t even begin to cover it. This year has easily produced the best comic films ever.

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And there has been for three days… I’m updating from my iPhone because if I don’t, I won’t update at all. Current secret project is still a few thousand words out.

I have so many projects going on at once that I’m starting to lose track of what goes where. It’s time to take a step back and get myself organized.

I need a method of synchronizing docs between multiple computers… Maybe it’s time to try google docs again.

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