I think you definitely have the makings of a very good novel here, for sure. Especially if you can string out the mystery element of it. Great characters too already.
the shaman i need to write. flannery has some back story. booths wife and kid make an appearance. theres a whole trackingndown booth section and lots in mexico with helen. possibly 40% done and those 6000 in the homo myceliensis would be more like 12000 to 15000 done proper. glad u like it 😀
This reminds me of an acid trip I had once, after taking the variety known in those days as a 'Pink Floyd'. These were the most visual-hallucination type of trips I ever had. I was sitting on a bench in one of those London squares, staring at the grass, as it slowly enlarged and wound its way up my legs and so on. In the meantime, the trees started looking a lot less like trees and more like these sort of incandescent I don't know whats. The colours were simply outstanding and not ones you'd usually see in nature. Sort of makes you realise our view of the world is so very limiting, and maybe the real world doesn't look like this at all, but is something else entirely.
Not that I am advocating the use of LSD-25 by the way. I've read all about the CIA and MK-Ultra after all. It's just as easy to have a seriously bad trip as a seriously good one.
Oh, and don't worry - you didn't give me any flashbacks. They eventually dissipated. Had to sleep with the lights on for at least a year afterwards, though...
Yeah, I know what you mean. After sitting in the square (my friend lived in one of the surrounding houses), we went back inside and watched Monty Python of all things. Then later my trip turned really bad however, and that was the end of my psychedelic experimentation. Never go tripping on your own in a room with all the lights out...
BTW, I did not get a second email notification when your story came back on line today. I found it by going through the original one from yesterday. You might want to post a note or something letting people know that it's here now...
thats a huge HUGE complement and i grew up on them too!
i think it suffered from cramming 60000 words of the back half of the story into 6000 words to kinda make a standalone... ill write it properly eventually
thanks again for reading and taking time to comment.
So delighted you have read this and it worked! Chapter 1 (sort of) is about Helen and published as A Decision on my stack. just have to write 100,000 words to go in the middle now...😄
So this is what happens at the end of your 'Decision' story. Well, now all you need to do is write those 100k words for the middle...
id rewrite it as well...i sorta jammed a.lot of stuff in there to make it work...Booth takes a long time to transition shall we say...
yep...ive done a few of them already...
I think you definitely have the makings of a very good novel here, for sure. Especially if you can string out the mystery element of it. Great characters too already.
the shaman i need to write. flannery has some back story. booths wife and kid make an appearance. theres a whole trackingndown booth section and lots in mexico with helen. possibly 40% done and those 6000 in the homo myceliensis would be more like 12000 to 15000 done proper. glad u like it 😀
This reminds me of an acid trip I had once, after taking the variety known in those days as a 'Pink Floyd'. These were the most visual-hallucination type of trips I ever had. I was sitting on a bench in one of those London squares, staring at the grass, as it slowly enlarged and wound its way up my legs and so on. In the meantime, the trees started looking a lot less like trees and more like these sort of incandescent I don't know whats. The colours were simply outstanding and not ones you'd usually see in nature. Sort of makes you realise our view of the world is so very limiting, and maybe the real world doesn't look like this at all, but is something else entirely.
Not that I am advocating the use of LSD-25 by the way. I've read all about the CIA and MK-Ultra after all. It's just as easy to have a seriously bad trip as a seriously good one.
Oh, and don't worry - you didn't give me any flashbacks. They eventually dissipated. Had to sleep with the lights on for at least a year afterwards, though...
did it once and we all watched 2001. it wasnt something i enjoyed
Yeah, I know what you mean. After sitting in the square (my friend lived in one of the surrounding houses), we went back inside and watched Monty Python of all things. Then later my trip turned really bad however, and that was the end of my psychedelic experimentation. Never go tripping on your own in a room with all the lights out...
I was picturing what my house would look like if it was covered in moss and glowing things. I like it.
Super fun and interesting premise.
thanks Nick!
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A wonderfully all-encompassing experience—see, touch, taste, and 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭. Oh, the tension!
Yikes! That drew me in for sure
thanks stephanie! you can read about helen when she was young in A decision...quite different pace...😀
This is so cool! If only it could be true...
BTW, I did not get a second email notification when your story came back on line today. I found it by going through the original one from yesterday. You might want to post a note or something letting people know that it's here now...
thank you! i think cos it is the same link once you publish even if u unpublish and republish... glad you enjoyed it.
👏 Really enjoyed this Nick! Gorgeous language in this piece.
Thank you so much! so glad you liked it ! 😄😎
I grew up reading Bradbury and Heinlein. This seems like a nice fusion of the two :)
thank you K Lynn!
thats a huge HUGE complement and i grew up on them too!
i think it suffered from cramming 60000 words of the back half of the story into 6000 words to kinda make a standalone... ill write it properly eventually
thanks again for reading and taking time to comment.
it means everything to me 😄
You really have a way of compelling us on. So full of atmpshere and tension.
Thank you Esther!
So delighted you have read this and it worked! Chapter 1 (sort of) is about Helen and published as A Decision on my stack. just have to write 100,000 words to go in the middle now...😄
No problem then! 😆