Read Annhiliation by VanDerMeer. Read it again. Its gorgeous and about the beauty of decay.
Funny you explored these topics. I was a man on the street on the way to the train station. He had a moustache and a fleshy pallor much like that of my deceased father. Here you speak of the twin, whereas, when I reached the train, I saw another man, again who looked just like him, again.
Confirmation bias, perhaps, but with our only limited A T G and C of our genetic structure, it is a mathematical possibility, however ever remote that we can have (pardon the pun) dead ringers everywhere if we have enough mutant samples.
I speak freely of this stuff because it helps me gather my thoughts, and I hope it may help allow yours to wander off in a myriad of directions, hopefully not too distracting from whatever it is that you may do to remove your sense of lack, or loss or however it may be defined.
As ever, thank you for your continued contributions of words to this place, always a delight to read.
Oh my god I read this last night on ecency and left to comment today, so read it again now. I love this comment - thanks for the recommendation!!
I am hoping it's a typo because it'd be a fantastic typo. Love it as a way to start a narrative, though.
By all means, ramble away. It's what I do, mostly, here, and find rambling on Hive helps me tremendously with the other things I'm working on :) Of course, the fact that I get to interact with cool, creative people helps me even more.
I mean, I was a man on the street, but it should be I SAW.
Maybe you meant to create this split between narrator and protagonist that did not in fact exist.
It might even be stronger writing that way. I don't know. My first week of work is now over, and its the first time I've turned my home computer on all week, and I just wanted a big keyboard to edit what I've achieved :P
I see what you mean. I've written like that sometimes, on borrowed time, hurried and full of typos and loves what came out. Happy editing. How was your first week?
At the risk of sounding as arrogant as my cover letter, I think its going to be easy. I'm looking forward to starting work in the production environment next week. One more day of training on the Monday. My spoiling myself tonight will be a melatonin tablet before bed so I can get some good sleep. I've been getting up at 530AM. I've been getting home at about 530/6PM on days that I don't go to the gym. On days I do go to the gym, I basically do that, eat, shower, then go straight to bed at 9PM.
Once i get access to the gym that is located in the office, it should be a little bit more tolerable, I hope!
That commute is doing you no favors, is it? Presumably it will also be easier when you get to work part remote. Happy it's working out :)