“I got me some
booty.”
Johnny Depp*
Finished the
rough draft of that short story and revised it. Working on the cover
letter for the story. After that will probably be more editing and
people looking at it.
Dimension
Ages
Earth gets ice
ages. The world of Draaiy gets dimension ages. The amount of time
between ice ages and dimension ages is different and is local. One
place on a planet can be in a dimension age, another not. They are
short enough to show up in the world's history. The longest a
thousand years, many last a decade or two, several a hundred years.
Dimension ages
pull the fabrics of the worlds apart and blend things from other
universes on a one way street into Draaiy. That's how humans entered
Draaiy along with other creatures, Earthen and otherwise. A little
girl named Katelyn entered during a dimension age when she was six.
Laws of physics
can be pulled from other dimensions so during dimension ages it can
change where chemicals will do new things and thoughts could suddenly
make things explode. The fact that dimension ages were isolated to
areas helped people survive when new laws of physics would have wiped
them out. But when new laws would help them they thrived.
It took Katelyn
a week to stop calling her experience a dream and three years to
accept the new parents who took her in. Taking in people from
dimensional shifts had become a part of culture. Her adopted parents
weren't even human. They were intelligent creatures from another
dimension that shifted into Draaiy like Earth. They could be best
described as slimey humanoid creatures. They spoke by vibration of
their long blob limbs and they had a large head suspended in their
middle with their shifting eye and brain. Somehow they didn't scare
her. Maybe it was they walked or the way they spoke to her. Something
about them that wasn't their bodies made her comfortable despite all
the traumas of dimensional shift and the loss of her parents.
Eventually the
dimension ages became the familiar. And as she aged she didn't follow
the pattern of some people who first fell into the world. Instead of
seeking normalcy and fleeing into areas outside of a dimension age
she seeked them out. She was always part of the pioneers that figured
out what new strange laws or happenings were occurring with each new
dimension that struck an area of the world.
She stopped for
a man, and they traveled together until they found a dimension age
where the laws of physics had changed so that the temperature was
always perfect and the weather giving the perfect amount of rain for
the right harvests to support a gentle cozy town nestled between some
hills. Katelyn's parents spent the last of their age in that
dimension age with them and saw Katelyn and her husband raise their
kids in it.
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