SMASH! Blurb Competition Winner 2013
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smashconThe winner of our first Blurb Competition is Loki-chan with her entry "the gentle fall".
the gentle fall
She took the proffered elixir in her hand. When lifted to the lamplight, it sparkled like the ocean in the early morning light.
We were meant to go that ocean, Skadi thought. We were meant to sail out in a pea-green boat and reach Atlantis together.
But Cyrus had gotten curious, then caught up, then lost. Fairy Land kept what it claimed, and it claimed Cyrus, who now only had fairies on his mind and gave little thought to anything else, just like a good Fairy Land monarch.
It made sense that the only way he would remember her would be when she became a fairy too.
Skadi had wanted to see the ocean, and make music from coral, ambergris, seaweed. Cyrus had wanted to explore new places, new worlds. The compromise was a weekend trip to the sunken city of Atlantis, but a few wrong turns, a dragon, and one giant case of mistaken identity later, Cyrus ends up crowned as King of Fairy Land.
Shame that no one told him that the Fairy Land monarchs only lasted for a month at best. Or that for all their pastel-bright facades, fairies were carnivorous, conniving and calamitous. Or that there was a reason Atlantis sunk, and all attempts to reach it sent you to Fairy Land instead.
But Skadi’s going to save Cyrus from his inevitable doom. All she has is her imagination, but she’ll get him out of Fairy Land before they’re trapped there forever.
Thanks to everyone who entered. I hope you consider joining in more of the SMASH! writing challenges and competitions next year.
the gentle fall
She took the proffered elixir in her hand. When lifted to the lamplight, it sparkled like the ocean in the early morning light.
We were meant to go that ocean, Skadi thought. We were meant to sail out in a pea-green boat and reach Atlantis together.
But Cyrus had gotten curious, then caught up, then lost. Fairy Land kept what it claimed, and it claimed Cyrus, who now only had fairies on his mind and gave little thought to anything else, just like a good Fairy Land monarch.
It made sense that the only way he would remember her would be when she became a fairy too.
Skadi had wanted to see the ocean, and make music from coral, ambergris, seaweed. Cyrus had wanted to explore new places, new worlds. The compromise was a weekend trip to the sunken city of Atlantis, but a few wrong turns, a dragon, and one giant case of mistaken identity later, Cyrus ends up crowned as King of Fairy Land.
Shame that no one told him that the Fairy Land monarchs only lasted for a month at best. Or that for all their pastel-bright facades, fairies were carnivorous, conniving and calamitous. Or that there was a reason Atlantis sunk, and all attempts to reach it sent you to Fairy Land instead.
But Skadi’s going to save Cyrus from his inevitable doom. All she has is her imagination, but she’ll get him out of Fairy Land before they’re trapped there forever.
Thanks to everyone who entered. I hope you consider joining in more of the SMASH! writing challenges and competitions next year.
