The Alchemist of Dawn |
The Artisan of Light |
The Tempest Keeper |
Introducing Stooges |
As Stooges stood at her workstation, she felt the fire in her gut: her body's response to the day’s negative events as they poured through her energy field. Floods and fires had become the constant backdrop of the summer heat crises. So, at midnight, when the day's last unfinished sentence tumbled into the darkness, she typed it into her code and watched as the characters produced a spectrum of fire and flood coloured textures as they fell through her console. And as a mind-film rolled through her subconscious, she saw forests burn, valleys flood and hurricanes tear through the land.
Stooges’ fingers danced over the keys as the unsettling energy vibrated. Each character she typed became a keystroke that filled the air with possibilities--a lot of them unwanted. But she understood that the emotion conveyed through the text required a delicate touch, a literary application, a poultice, used to draw out the tension and soothe the energy. The last sentence of the night had begun with, "In the fading light, the shadow whimpered in the face of the violence orchestrated by the climate crises." Carefully, she selected the final word, preparing to weave a new tone into the phrase. Her aim was to soften the impact, cleanse the energy, and make way for a flood of star-like light to draw in pure, glorious energy. The revised passage read: "The crises’ orchestra sets up in the burnt-out meadow and plays love songs, so even the shadows whisper stories of undying love in these ad hoc chimes..."
She paused, letting the essence of the words linger in the air. Stooges fancied she could almost taste them, like a fruity, refreshing wine, blending and soothing the tension. She waited for the lift--that gentle feeling of release--before diving back in to add: "...and the sky blushed as the horizon held its breath, waiting for the stars to awaken."
As Stooges typed she felt like a bit of a fraud. She was no poet, yet here she was tumbling metaphors through the universe. And as sweet light cascaded through the last violent image, each character fused with the river of light that already contained the work of classic wordsmiths--writers like Hardy, Wordsworth, Bronte, Frost, Yeats, Lorca, Housman, Dickinson, de Beauvoir, and so many more. Their words were the foundation stones, the golden fillings in the teeth of the earth, ready to be mined and reshaped.
As the story expanded and contracted, wordy tones wove soulful threads, forming a brilliant twilight tapestry. Each sentence lived, morphing and evolving as it absorbed nuances, emotions and unseen energies. Words, fossilized in time, yet ever relevant, lifted characters from sentences and paragraphs, merging and melting descriptions that created the day’s narrative--one that breathed like a lung, balancing the scales.
When she placed the final stop sign, it dropped like a blob; as it hit the air the colors around it bled into one another, uniting the spectrum of human interaction and emotion. Nighttime beckoned prose that transformed the digital camp--the pixelated forests and binary rivers. With this language, she had crafted a living organism, one that thrived on creativity and exhaled inspiration.
The sun now unified the full scope of human interaction, and as her neighbors and friends looked on, they understood that this task was about more than just completing sentences. Stooges was a weaver of reality, a sculptor of dreams.
The day’s story was now complete, but it was only the beginning. Tomorrow would bring a new sentence, a new recipe, and a new tale to be told. And the camp of Lordness thrived on these stories, each one another unique chapter in the endless book of existence.
In Lordness, every sunset was a reminder of the infinite possibilities that language held.