Here on the edge of eternity on tomorrows shore. I stand alone and deserted as I have many times before.
He was shot down here on Io at this very place where I stand. I had hired a recovery team I needed to find my man.
The ship was nought but wreckage and his bones had long turned to dust . It took too long too find him but to do so was a must.
I swore that I would find and reclaim his service pin, I did, I found it covered in dust…….. covered in him. I did not want to come here but it was written that I would for I have a job to do and so to save my race I must do it good.
The night was long on Saturn where I sat out on the Rim. It was there I first felt my powers. I saw the ships fighting off Io, one exploded and I knew that it was him.
My powers had been hidden but I had a special path to take. I would gladly forgo all this, his loving hand to take. But all that is denied me as I hold his service pin I am alone here on the edge of eternity, alone without him.
I had found a ship quite cheaply a vintage Stella 5 I had manage to drag a crew together mostly old timers but they had the will to stay alive. People laughed as we took off for Io as we left Orion’s outer Rim but my crew have not abused me as I had told them how important was my search for him!
I have to start my quest
Now my fate is sealed I know the course to take, it all depends on me now and the choices I now make.
Female, wife, full time mother and Grandmother. I am not as happy go lucky as I used to be but I am still bubbling along on simmer! I have three handsome sons all grown and flown.The youngest married with a beautiful wife and two sons of his own. Eleven years ago I was working, running a home, driving and socializing then bang in a split second all that was gone. I had an accident at home. I broke my back, not for the first time, I had broken it 10 years previously as well. Unfortunately this time I had broken it really badly and it was truly messed up so I had to have two operations. I was told before each operation that the outcome could mean I spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair. Still as some guy once wrote "I am still standing " yes "better than I ever was " not quite but with the help of a walking stick and as long as I do not stand or sit in one position for too long, I am still standing! Update I no longer use the walking stick . I had lots of friends before the accident but when things like this happen, you loose most of them. Their lives move on and mine stood still and so they left me behind ...I know that is just the way life is but it hurt and always will. Then I looked around and saw those who were still there for me, these friends are the roses in my garden they need to be tended well. They are the diamonds in the dust, I will of been married 50yrs plus this year . Pain and boredom are my enemies now, I have to find different ways to approach life, use my pain befriend it almost...yer right , well that is what they tell me at the pain clinic ROFLMAO ...... if only I could! I have found an outlet for my fears, frustrations and night terrors . I have started writing poetry if that name can be applied to my writing. I hope I do not come over as a moaning winger. I hope I am past all that. I also hope that you might see how the poetry is moving from very dark through the grey and
hopefully in to light ??
I need to update this a little here. I have worked very hard over the years since my accident, I go to the gym regularly, I have a Pilates class and a core class once a week . The guys at the gym and my Pilates teacher cajoled, teased, bullied and encouraged me to abandon my walking stick! :) My back is no longer straight it is C shaped because of the injury and I have lost two and a half inches in height but my Pilates and Core teachers have helped me to stand up as straight and as strongly as possible. Pain and depression are still hanging on my arm but I have weapons to use against them and if I say so myself I cope well.
I have made lots of new friends, real diamonds. I am also very grateful for all the support and help I have encountered here on Wordpress. Hugs and welcome to everyone who visits.
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10 thoughts on “The edge of Enternity , on Io”
Love it…. hope to see more of this story.. maybe?…..
Willowdot, I am started to get really freaked out at how you and are operate on so many shared wavelengths: I have a longterm SF novel in the oven called “Rednecks in the Next Galaxy”! I love this space series here, and the way you combine it with details from ancient mythologies. After all, we know time is in a warp, right?
WOW well that is amazing that you have a sifi novel on the go, my story is short really I am working on part four tonight, I am trying to keep it short so it could be read as a journal . Yes time is a warp and you could be me and I you so easily! hhehehehe! 😉 XX
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Love it…. hope to see more of this story.. maybe?…..
Yes I do hope to continue, did you see chapter one and two?
Nope, but if they are on your blog site, I’ll find them….I’d love to see them…
I have put their links at the end of the blog
Cool, thanks….
Love space tales! How imaginative! xx
part 1&2 are listed at the bottom of the blog , you may of already read them.
Willowdot, I am started to get really freaked out at how you and are operate on so many shared wavelengths: I have a longterm SF novel in the oven called “Rednecks in the Next Galaxy”! I love this space series here, and the way you combine it with details from ancient mythologies. After all, we know time is in a warp, right?
WOW well that is amazing that you have a sifi novel on the go, my story is short really I am working on part four tonight, I am trying to keep it short so it could be read as a journal . Yes time is a warp and you could be me and I you so easily! hhehehehe! 😉 XX