Infinitely Ongoing.

The blank soulless eyes stared down from the deep blue sky onto the luscious green and thriving earth. They didn't blink and their gaze didn't change, they just stared hoping someone would look up and notice the darkness of its pupils seeping from the sky onto the earth.

The earth continued to rotate itself in front of these soulless eyes. It spun in a way that the surface was constantly changing for the viewer, with moving oceans, throbbing back and forth, and the clouds obstructing the view of certain areas of greens, blues and browns. The cities constantly pulsing with electrifying energy, morphing into new forms.

The eyes watched these patterns and was fascinated at how quickly everything changes on this luscious planet. How they never blinked, and never got tired of just gazing at something in constant motion, wondering why everything was the way it was and why the entities that embodied this planet needed to be in constant motion; changing in one way or another.

It watched as things came from earth and where shot into the sky, past the gazing eyes deep into the vast universe. It watched as there where uprisings and how death came on very swift wings down upon the entities that roamed this restricting planet they call home. Wars came and went, as well as the spread of horrid diseases that came from unknown parts for unknown reasons; death was king and life supplied death with an endless supple of things to devour. Death ate and ate. The entities that roamed the planet figured out a way to put a stopper on death and its game. Life continued to produce, even though the entities had slowed death down and its habits.

Everything was thriving again and the black soulless eyes continued to gaze down onto the planet it had been watching for so long. Then one day it noticed that something was staring back, and in a split second the soulless eyes finally blinked and in a blinding flash of light everything had disappeared, back into stardust, just as it had started so many eons ago. Into a fine powder that would travel through the universe until it is once again formed into a new start with constantly moving entities that the soulless eyes can watch until someone sees them once again and have the cycle repeat itself infinitely.

The End.

The only problem I've run into so far...

... is that Tumblr unexpectedly always has this on sometimes. Very frustrating.

It is actually do this right now.

MINI SHORT STORY HIATUS

The final weeks of the semester are coming and I need to crack down on studying, not to mention I have severe writer's block which is killing me. As you can tell recently I've been posting less and less short stores since nothing new can come to mind. I have a few ideas, but I'm not sure how they will play out. 

So for now until further notice the short stories that are a few paragraphs long will have to go into hiatus. However very very short one paragraph story will pop up now and than along with haikus and others forms of poetry.

I will also be posting film reviews of the films that I watch, so if you like you can also keep an eye out for those.

Best way to follow me is via twitter ... easier to update and communicate to a group. So if you have a twitter account you can follow me @VeraT ( http://www.twitter.com/VeraT ) and I'll most likely follow you back. I will also be posting random little updates on Tumblr constantly ( http://verat.tumblr.com/  )

So I leave you with this:

The sky fell onto the earth.

It crushed everyone into dust.

The only living things on earth now are bacteria.

They all started to multiply.

Everything returned.

Thus regeneration came from human star dust.

LIKE ANYONE IS GOING TO SEE IT...

Found this photo I took a while back at the Cherry Creek Mall. Who in the world will crane their neck up that high to see that exit sign in an emergency.

DEATH COMES ON SWIFT WINGS

Sitting on a pine a magpie looks down at the glittering specks on a path looking for shiny metal trinkets it can take back to its nest for safe keeping. It hops from one branch to the next looking at different sections of the path.

It finally spots something of interest in the grass next to the path's edge. The magpie swoops down onto the path, ducking in and out of the grass looking to see where the object went. It finally finds the prize it is looking for. 

It turns out to be a thimble, with just a few droplets of the morning dew still in it. The magpie rinks these refreshing drops. It then picks up the thimble and carries it up to its nest in the tall pines. It nestles its prize in between the meshing of the nest so that no one else can get to it, if it ever gets spotted.

The magpie continues on with its day,  collecting insects for a quick meal or more materials for a more fortified nest. After a few hours, the sun high above but planning on going down pretty soon, the magpie sits and watches the path. It sees an elderly woman coming up, bent over, as if looking for something. She looks through the grassy edge of the path, careful not to miss any patches. 

The magpie wonders what this elderly woman is doing, but while observing her actions, the magpie gets easily distracted by something the elderly woman has on her. What the magpie sees is a sparkling broach affixed to the elderly woman scarf. It glitters like nothing ever seen before by the magpie, but how to get such an object. 

The elderly woman is now not that far from where the magpie is watching, so the magpie swoops down and flutters about the elderly woman's head. The elderly woman, not sure what is going on, flails her arms about to get the bird away, but the magpie persists with its fluttering its wings at her. When this does work the magpie begin to peck at the elderly woman, and the elderly woman starts to panic and swat at the bird as hard as she can.

The magpie continues to peck away, injuring the elderly woman. The elderly woman screams in terror as the pecking persists. The magpie, mostly aiming at the face and the hands, finally topples the elderly woman. Its claws hooked on tightly onto the broach. The elderly woman, bleeding, passes out and eventually dies from her wounds endured from the magpie. The magpie, get the broach off the scarf after a few forceful tugs.

It flies high up into the sky, above the pines to its nest, and hides it most prized possession of all time. More hours pass, and the sun starts to go down, the elderly woman still in the path untouched. The magpie nestles to bed and falls asleep, dreaming of the glorious things it always finds. 

Then a sudden noise of shouting is heard, and the magpie is startled awake from its peaceful slumber. The magpie looks towards the path, the elderly woman still there, but now there are people surrounding her body, some crying, others outraged that this happened to someone so caring. Wondering why someone would go as far to kill her and rob her.

The group of people, with torches alight head down the path and into parts of the forest to look for her killer and attempt to get her belongings back to whom they rightfully belong to. Of course, we all know that that broach will never be found, and only we now where it lays; and for that matter we know that they will never find her killer even though the magpie is right in front of their eyes for the rest of their lives.

THE END.

THE MASK HI-RESOLUTION IMAGES + MORE GOODIES

As promised I am posting some high resolution images of the mask that I made and wore on Halloween this year. Yes, I still go trick or treating. I also scanned a bunch of my work today and a mini sample is going to be posted here today and more will be posted later in the week. Which reminds me that I have to sign a lot of my work. If you see anything you like, message me and we can work something out. 

YAY!!! For mask making, the eye slits as you can tell aren't in the right place, but hey it still looks amazing.

Here is a mini sample of what is to come:

And now a story, especially since I've been lagging behind in new stories.

On a distant land, there was a no life, all that ever existed there was the wind, ice and the dust that blew about the barren landscape. There where deep valleys and high mountains, taller than those on Earth. It was almost alway dark and cold on this planet. It saw it's star from afar, the star's heat never reaching it and warming it's lost and forgotten heart. All it ever did was rotate and orbit about this star, watching it's brothers and sisters move about the star at a faster pace than itself.

So it sat at the edge of it's galaxy moving eon after eon in slow motion. One day while rotating it noticed that it's star was not there in its usual place anymore. It looked at it's siblings and the one closest to the star where being destroyed into star dust, just as they were made. The further the planet it was it had more time to state what happened. This planet finally received the message only to see each of it's brothers and sisters disappear. By the time a force so powerful hit it, it was happy as well as sad to have it's long life come to an end in such a short period of time. At least life was enjoyed just as much as it could have possibly enjoyed it. 

You will only be recreated into something new in a short time. Something as brilliant as before.

THE END.

THE MASK...LOW RESOLUTION PICS

As promised the mask. Sorry for the poor quality. Better pics tomorrow.