Lilly Cooper
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Stories (80/0)
- Top Story - August 2023
Delphine
Sitting in the darkened viewing room, Delphine felt as close to the peace she used to feel before the passing of her Mémé a year ago. The fish swam through the iridescent blue that reminded her of her grandmother’s eyes, with a grace she envied. Delphine herself had two left feet and was all thumbs. Being clumsy just made her even more self-conscious than the average fifteen year old girl.
By Lilly Cooper2 years ago in Fiction
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Music plays a fairly major role in most of our lives, whether we realise it or not. Apparently, scientists have ranked the sense of hearing last in terms of the senses abilities to recall memories. And yet when so many of us reminisce about days gone by, we attach songs, indeed even entire soundtracks to periods of our lives. Maybe music isn’t fantastic for triggering a single intense memory, but it can instantly transport us back to our teenage years and the mischief we got into with our friends.
By Lilly Cooper2 years ago in Beat
Kindred
The scent reached him down wind before the sound of boy’s steps did, rousing him from sleep. Lazily, he got to his feet and stretched, just like a dog. Not that anyone would ever say that to the dragon. He lifted his snout to sniff the delightful scent on the air, spreading his wings to their limit before snapping them shut again with a leathery slap.
By Lilly Cooper2 years ago in Fiction
The Dragon's Triangle - Chapter 3
Sound was the first thing Angel became aware of. The babbling sound of water mixed with turbulent dreams of dark green water and fast-moving shadows. It was the bird song as a counterpoint to the running water that even her subconscious could not reconcile with the dreamscape that set her on the path back to reality. After the happy warbling of bird, she began to recognise the sounds of wind through trees, distant voices, hammering, children playing and the soft ringing of a chime.
By Lilly Cooper2 years ago in Fiction
My Soul Mate Has Four Legs
The last few years have been pretty tumultuous for a lot of people, for a lot of different reasons. Between a Pandemic impacting heavily on both my home life and professional life, a relationship breakdown and life in general doing what life does, it has been a busy and stressful chapter of my life. I know I’m not alone in this, and even though that is comforting to know I’m not the only one struggling at times like these, it can still feel like a very lonely experience especially when we are separated from the people we love through no choice of our own. Simple things we might have coped with before become compounded and feel insurmountable.
By Lilly Cooper2 years ago in Petlife
Finite Life: Chapter One
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” Myra paced the stage of the auditorium with her graceful stride and gestured dramatically. “Space: the final frontier. Huston, we have a problem. One small step for for man: One giant step for mankind. And the fascination is not just for adults. Who hasn’t heard the nursery rhyme Twinkle twinkle little Star? How about Buzz Lightyear's To Infinity and Beyond? Our fascination with space is so ingrained in our identity, it’s impossible to know where it stared. Throughout history, every human culture has looked to the stars for answers. They have been used to navigate, to explain things we didn’t know at the time, to tell stories, to know the date, time and perhaps the most prevalent use of all, to tell our future!” Her audience laughed at the last inclusion, as did she. Horoscopes had fallen out of favour and were more the butt of a joke these days, but ask most people and they could still tell you their sign. It was amusing to think people actually used to believe the position of the small group of stars visible from Earth could tell you something about your personality or what sort of day you were going to have. Once the laughter died down, Myra moved on.
By Lilly Cooper2 years ago in Fiction
Simon Says
Parker had been having the most restful sleep. It had been a tough week at work and sleep had not been his friend, leaving him feeling weary to his bones. Right now, he was somewhere between dreams and awake at that stage with the strange sensation where your mind is aware but your body isn’t really up to speed yet and a little slow to respond. Most people experience this as a terrifying feeling of being paralysed and trapped in their own body. Not Parker. It’d been happening to him regularly since childhood, normal until a few years ago and not scary in the slightest. He would wake enough to move soon. There was an odd sound he was becoming aware though, one he couldn’t immediately explain. It was out of place and he couldn’t quite work out why through a sleep haze. An electronic buzz. Was his alarm clock broken? Feeling ready to move, he rolled over without opening his eyes, reaching for the clock on his bedside table..... and fell to the floor with a jarring thud.
By Lilly Cooper2 years ago in Fiction
Tastes like Summer
Summer is hot here in Queensland, Australia. Average temperatures are not often below 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) in the area of the state where I live and the humidity is more than 65% on average during the season (the months of December, January and February).
By Lilly Cooper2 years ago in Feast