Braeden Black
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Two Solitudes. Runner-Up in the Improbable Paradise Challenge.
Vacation? Vacation from what? I can't help but ask myself this as I trudge the light-blue sands of Icarus Island. It's paradise, to be sure. Made even more so by the tidal disruption event that's been occurring for the last hundred years breathtakingly close to this planet: Beta Carinae of the Carina constellation planets.
By Braeden Blackabout a year ago in Fiction
Shade Stone
Kiseron felt drawn to the thing. Like any somatosensory creature can identify exactly where the itch is on their bum, he knew where the thing was without needing to see or smell it. This super-natural sense of his was exactly why he had been assigned to this mission in the first place. Kiseron was an unconventional breed of dragon, Smaller and with no wings to even indicate the hope of flying. But what his kind did have was a lovely necroplasmic sense for all things even remotely associated with death.
By Braeden Black2 years ago in Fiction
Icarus Fire
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. And they've got science to back it up. With not matter to carry it, the tiniest whisper would get suffocated, stopped as soons as it began. Let alone a scream. They don't hear it echoing from across the void. But I can. It comes to me from deep in the expanse. Like a terrible, oppressive entity crying out in horror and rage, pleading for help.
By Braeden Black2 years ago in Fiction
Women Who Inspire
“Yukasama” is what I call her. Though I only refer to her by this name in my mind. And I’m sure if she knew this, she would give me that patient look, the same she gave me the one time I used this name with her in person, and would correct me again now, the same way she did then; “-san, not -sama.” In Japanese, the native language and culture of the woman I am writing about, the suffix “-sam” added after a name indicates the normal form and title “Mrs.” or “Miss.” However, add another syllable to the end of the normal form, making the suffix “-sama” at the end of a name, then the title of this person is raised by respect to mean something more along the lines of “sensai.” It’s a suffix title used to refer to those who are deserving of the utmost respect and status in Japan.
By Braeden Black4 years ago in Motivation