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Admire the jellyfish deep below, all juicy color and sinuous water-dancing.
If you haul her to shore, she will drown in dryness: her beauty shriveled, her grace collapsed, her strength dissolved.
As have I, uprooted from my loamy soil and dragged to this wasteland, desiccating under your oblivious hand.
Written for this week’s Three Lines Tales. Thanks to Sonya for hosting!
Tales from Eneana 
This is beautifully written.
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Thanks Joshua! Sometimes it’s easier to take the time to pick the most beautiful words when there are so few of them to start with.
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A situation made all the worse with “your *oblivious* hand”.
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I’m glad you caught that! I had cut out a more obvious clue and hoped that that one would suffice. Thanks for reading Ali!
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Very well written. I love the detail! Great word choices, vibrant words. ❤
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Thank you for saying so, I’m glad you liked it! I thought a photo this vibrant deserved some vibrant text to accompany it. 🙂
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Beautiful line of thought 🙂
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How nice of you to say, thank you!
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How do you feel about that word ‘desiccating?’ I’m ambivalent, has a scientific quality to it dunnit? That word is also in the book I’m finishing up, where David Mitchell’s making fun of one of his characters, a novelist named Crispin Hershey I think, who’s written a book “Desiccating Embryos.” Dark chuckle, snort. Nice piece though, by the by. I’m catching up, from about a month off.
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I love the word desiccating: it’s so awful! What a terrible thing to imagine yourself doing. I keep wanting to use it for stories about the great drought that destroys the Azza’at Empire, because it evokes such a disgusted, dismayed, depressing emotion in me. I didn’t think it sounded scientific before, although of course now you’ve put the idea in my head. Welcome back from your month off — have fun catching up, Bill!
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It is a pungent word. I just found it funny it played prominently in this book I just finished today and you used it too. Here’s to good words, like “just right vinegar” in your pantry 🤗
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It is weird, how you can’t remember the last time you heard some unusual word, and then suddenly it seems to be appearing from multiple directions.
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It’s like when you’re buying a new car (or not!). Anyhow, there you have it. Life is mysterious and better than we can credit it sometimes, I think.
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A beautiful piece, Joy. I love the line “all juicy color and sinuous water-dancing.”
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Oh thank you for saying so, I loved that line too.
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