From 605ad817d2a06f4e535242f8e21845d666ce6a4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Rye Progress Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 18:16:53 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/post-self/idumea/008.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/writing/post-self/idumea/008.md b/writing/post-self/idumea/008.md index 5c17d3e3..f33d4be0 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/idumea/008.md +++ b/writing/post-self/idumea/008.md @@ -1,6 +1,14 @@ ## End Of Endings — 2403
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Rye — 2409 +Ah, my dear readers, my dear friends, my lovely little ones who sit cross-legged on carpet squares and the great big ones who wear their hearts on their sleeves, I am unable to not wax rhapsodic about so lovely a heart as that of The Woman, and while it may sound like I harbor some secret feelings, some hidden affection for her, and while that may indeed be true, for everyone wishes to be blessed by the kindest of smiles, I also feel that I do not have much longer to tell you this story, to finish what I have written from beginning to end, to get to the ending that doubtless you know now is coming, for I am now more words than I am person, I am more sentences than your narrator, and I am more story than I am alive. +I do not have much longer in which I may be able to tell you this story before the ceaseless tangle of words drags me under. I will try. I will try. I will try and try and try, and try and try. + +I am very nearly there, too, to the end that you doubtless know is coming. There is only one new face to introduce, one new gently obscured name, and through her, I hope to draw strength, for you have seen already that relying on dialogue makes it easier for me to pin myself to coherency. + +----- + +We are women, much of the clade. There are some men, yes, and many who have exited such limitations as gender offers, but -----