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4 years ago

All the October Prompts!

I’ve decided to combine @rubinecorvus Wartober 2021 and @raincoffeeandfandoms Kisstober 2021 prompt challenges for double the fun and double the headache. :3 

Here’s Day 1 - Coast + Goodnight Kiss

There are ghosts on the tide tonight. 

The splinter of the moon is just bright enough to catch the waves sighing in, each one topped with the silvery shroud of the departed. Tiny, violent epitaphs for a sea of souls that move and roll as if they still had corporeal bodies to relish and slide over the water. 

They don’t feel malignant. Only lonely.

Eugene sits in the wet sand with them in solidarity, watches the sea banshees keen longingly for the shore, busting themselves to pieces on the break before they can set foot back upon the land. For some reason he feels most at home here - in the coastal limbo where sea meets sand. This odd position between solidity and liquidity, where neither state of being can exist without the other...

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